Printer with an initial sheet-setting function

A printer comprising:

• sheet feeding means for feeding a sheet forward to and backward from a printing position;
• a first sheet sensor, provided before the printing position, for detecting the sheet;
• an initial sheet-setting controller, in response to the external initial sheet-setting command and the first sheet sensor's initial detection of no sheet, for driving the feeding means to feed the sheet forward a predetermined distance when the first sheet sensor first detects the sheet, and wherein said initial sheet-setting controller, in response to the external initial sheet-setting command and the first sheet sensor's initial detection of the sheet, drives the sheet feeding means to feed the sheet backward until the sheet sensor first detects no sheet and then to feed the sheet forward the predetermined distance;
• a sheet supplier for holding, a plurality of separate sheets, and in response to a sheet-demanding command, for supplying one of the sheets to a printing section of the printer;
• wherein the initial sheet-setting controller sends, in response to the initial sheet-setting command, the sheet-demanding command to the sheet supplier when the first sheet sensor detects no sheet, followed by feeding the sheet forward the predetermined distance after the first sheet sensor first detects the sheet;
• said sheet supplier further includes a second sheet sensor at a sheet exit of the sheet supplier;
• and
• the initial sheet-setting controller drives the sheet feeding means, in response to the initial sheet-setting command and both the first sensor's and the second sensor's detection of the sheet, first forward until the second sheet sensor detects no sheet, then backward until the first sensor detects no sheet, and finally forward the predetermined distance.