US 8,408,825 B2Granted

Apparatus and method to avoid cutting a spliced recording medium position

AssigneeOlympus Corporation

InventorTomoko Gocho

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Abstract

An image recording apparatus having a carrying unit carrying a continuous recording medium; a recording medium connecting unit for replacing and connecting the continuous recording medium; a cutting unit having cutting means cutting the continuous recording medium and detection means detecting a cutting position of the cutting means; and an introducing unit and having a pair of introducing rotating bodies nipping the continuous recording medium to hold and introduce the continuous recording medium into the cutting unit, and comprising a control unit determining whether a connecting position of the continuous recording medium connected in the recording medium connecting unit corresponds to the cutting position of the cutting unit, and when the connecting position and the cutting position are determined as corresponding, controlling a cutting length of the continuous recording medium having the connecting position, to avoid cutting being conducted at the connecting position.

Claims11

Dependent claims

An image recording apparatus comprising:

a carrying unit carrying a continuous recording medium and having a carriage information generation unit which generates carriage information of the continuous recording medium;
a recording medium connecting unit for replacing and connecting the continuous recording medium;
a cutting unit having a cutter which cuts the continuous recording medium and a detector which detects a cutting position of the cutter;
an introducing unit disposed between the carrying unit and the cutting unit, and having a pair of introducing rotating bodies nipping the continuous recording medium to hold and introduce the continuous recording medium into the cutting unit;
and
a control unit determining whether a connecting position of the continuous recording medium connected in the recording medium connecting unit corresponds to the cutting position of the cutting unit based on an output from the carriage information generation unit, and when the connecting position and the cutting position are determined as corresponding, controlling a cutting length of the continuous recording medium having the connecting position, to avoid cutting being conducted at the connecting position.

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A control method of an image recording apparatus, the image recording apparatus comprising a carrying unit carrying a continuous recording medium and having a carriage information generation unit which generates carriage information of the continuous recording medium;

a recording medium connecting unit for replacing and connecting the continuous recording medium;
a cutting unit having a cutter which cuts the continuous recording medium and a detector which detects a cutting position of the cutter;
and an introducing unit disposed between the carrying unit and the cutting unit, and having a pair of introducing rotating bodies nipping the continuous recording medium to hold and introduce the continuous recording medium into the cutting unit, the control method comprising:
determining whether a connecting position of the continuous recording medium connected in the recording medium connecting unit corresponds to the cutting position of the cutting unit based on an output from the carriage information generation unit, and when the connecting position and the cutting position are determined as corresponding, performing a control of a cutting length of the continuous recording medium having the connecting position, to avoid cutting being conducted at the connecting position.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.