Printer
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYoshitsugu Tomomatsu
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Abstract
A printer, comprising: a printing part; a conveying mechanism to send out a print medium from a medium roll around which the print medium is wound, the conveying mechanism comprising a correcting mechanism to correct curl of the print medium in a winding direction by curving the print medium in a reverse direction of the winding direction; and a controller configured to: store a finish time of the printing; obtain a start time when next printing is started; determine whether an elapsed time elapsed from the finish time to the start time is longer than a particular time; when the elapsed time is longer than the particular time, cause the conveying mechanism to convey the print medium by a particular length which is longer than a length between the correcting mechanism and the printing part; and cause the printing part to perform the printing.
Claims6
A printer, comprising:
- a printing part configured to perform printing on a print medium;
- a conveying mechanism configured to send out the print medium from a medium roll around which the print medium is wound and to convey the print medium via the printing part, the conveying mechanism comprising a correcting mechanism configured to correct curl of the print medium caused in a winding direction of the print medium by curving the print medium in a reverse direction of the winding direction;
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- a controller configured to:
- store a finish time of the printing by the printing part in a storage device;
- obtain a start time when next printing is started by the printing part after previous printing has been finished;
- determine whether an elapsed time elapsed from the finish time stored in the storage device to the obtained start time is longer than a particular time;
- when the controller determines that the elapsed time is longer than the particular time, cause the conveying mechanism to convey the print medium by a particular length which is longer than a length, in a conveying direction along a conveying path of the print medium, between the correcting mechanism and the printing part;
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- cause the printing part to perform the printing on the print medium after the print medium has been conveyed by the particular length.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.