Ink-jet printer
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYasunari Yoshida
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Abstract
An ink-jet printer, including: a feeding mechanism which feeds a recording medium in a feeding direction; an ink-jet head which ejects ink onto a surface of the recording medium at a recording position where the ink-jet head faces the recording medium fed by the feeding mechanism in the feeding direction; a pressing device including at least one spur and pressing the surface of the recording medium on a downstream side of the recording position in the feeding direction by bringing at least one of the at least one spur into contact with the surface of the recording medium; and a pressing-position-changing mechanism which selectively realizes one of a plurality of states which are different from each other in at least one pressing position, in the feeding direction, at which the pressing device presses the surface of the recording medium.
Claims12
An ink-jet printer, comprising:
- a feeding mechanism which feeds a plurality of recording media one by one in a feeding direction;
- an ink-jet head which ejects ink onto a surface of the recording medium at a recording position where the ink-jet head faces the recording medium fed by the feeding mechanism in the feeding direction;
- a pressing device including:
- a first spur and a second spur capable of pressing the surface of the recording medium respective pressing positions each located on a downstream side of the recording position in the feeding direction, the first spur being located on a downstream side of the second spur in the feeding direction;
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- a height changing mechanism configured to move the second spur in a vertical direction such that the second spur is positioned at either (a) a second-spur upper position at which the second spur does not contact the surface of the recording medium or (b) a second-spur lower position at which the second spur presses the surface of the recording medium;
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- a controller configured to control the height changing mechanism;
- wherein the controller is configured to control the height changing mechanism to move the second spur to the second-spur upper position to realize a first state in which the second spur is located at the second-spur upper position, and the first spur is located below the second spur so as to press the surface of the recording medium;
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- wherein the controller is configured to control the height changing mechanism to move the second spur to the second-spur lower position to realize a second state in which the second spur is located at the second-spur lower position so as to press the surface of the recording medium, and the first spur is located at one of a first position at which the first spur presses the surface of the recording medium and a second position, located above the first position, at which the first spur does not contact the surface of the recording medium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.