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AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHiroshi Yoshino, Tadayoshi Inamoto, Yoshiaki Kaburagi, Hiroyuki Saito, Ako Takemura, Akira Kuribayashi, Mariko Suzuki
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A pack integrally housing inks and printing media has an ink housing section 211 arranged so as to overlap part of a printing media housing section 210. The ink housing section 211 is configured to rotationally move around a rotational moving shaft 212e so as to be opened and closed relative to the printing media housing section 210. On the other hand, the printing media housing section 210 has an opening 215 formed in a lower part thereof and in which part of housed printing media appears, thereby enabling the pack to come into contact with a sheet feeding roller of the printer when the pack is installed in a printer. Additionally, while not installed in the printer, the pack is covered with the opening and closing ink housing section 211, thereby enabling the printing media to be protected from dusts or the like.
An integral-type pack configured to be removably installed in an ink-jet printing apparatus which includes printing heads for ejecting inks and conveying means for conveying printing media having images recorded thereon by ejecting inks from the printing heads, said integral-type pack integrally housing the inks to be supplied to the printing heads and the printing media to be conveyed by the conveying means, said integral-type pack comprising:
A method for installing an integral-type pack in an ink-jet printing apparatus including a section for installing the integral-type pack, the integral-type pack configured to be removably installed in the ink-jet printing apparatus which includes printing heads for ejecting inks and conveying means for conveying printing media having images recorded thereon by ejecting inks from the printing heads, the integral-type pack integrally housing the inks to be supplied to the printing heads and the printing media to be conveyed by the conveying means, the integral-type pack comprising a first portion and a second portion covering part of the first portion, the first and second portions forming the integral-type pack, an opening and closing mechanism for opening and closing the second portion relative to the part of the first portion, and an opening portion formed in the part of the first portion covered by the second portion and in which the printing media appear when the printing media are housed in the first portion, the method comprising the steps of:
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