Recording apparatus
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorTsuneyuki Sasaki
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Abstract
A recording medium includes: a recording head ejecting fluid onto a recording medium; a transporting device transporting the recording medium along a supporting surface; and a heating device heating the recording medium on the supporting surface, in which a control device that protrudes the supporting surface upward toward the center portion from both ends in the width direction perpendicular to the transport direction which is direction the recording medium is transported, and controls the amount of protrusion at the center portion in accordance with the amount of thermal extension in the width direction of the recording medium due to heating of the heating device.
Claims6
A recording apparatus comprising:
- a recording head ejecting fluid onto a recording medium;
- a transporting device transporting the recording medium along a supporting surface;
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- a heating device heating the recording medium on the supporting surface,
- wherein the supporting surface protrudes upward toward the center portion from both ends, in the width direction perpendicular to a transport direction which is direction the recording medium is transported,
- wherein the recording apparatus further comprises a control device that controls the amount of protrusion at the center portion in accordance with the amount of thermal extension in the width direction of the recording medium due to heating of the heating device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.