Recording apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKoya Iwakura
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Abstract
A recording apparatus includes a recording head mounted on a carriage movable along a recording material, a guide member for guiding the carriage, a bearing member which is mounted to the carriage so as to be movable relative to the carriage in a vertical direction, and a slidable member mounted slidably in a carriage movement direction between the carriage and the bearing member. The slidable member is slid in the carriage movement direction to switch a height position of the carriage with respect to the guide member, whereby a gap between the recording head and the recording material is switched.
Claims8
A recording apparatus for effecting recording on a recording material with a recording head mounted on a carriage movable along the recording material, said recording apparatus comprising:
- a guide member for guiding the carriage;
- a platen for guiding the recording material at a position opposite to the recording head;
- a bearing member, mounted to the carriage, movable relative to the carriage in a vertical direction;
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- a slidable member mounted slidably in a carriage movement direction between the carriage and said bearing member,
- wherein said slidable member is slid in the carriage movement direction to move said bearing member relative to the carriage thereby to change a distance between the recording head and said platen.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.