Fujitsu Corporation

Chikako Kawana

Hirofumi Nakayasu

Takashi Maekawa

Yoshiaki Hosokawa

Masaki Kanoh

Kenji Umehara

A printer having a bail roller opening and closing apparatus including a bail roller for pressing a printing medium against a platen, a bail roller opening and closing mechanism for moving the bail roller between a closed position and an open position, and a clutch for connecting a space motor to the bail roller opening and closing mechanism. The bail roller opening and closing mechanism includes a rotating member rotationally driven by the space motor via the clutch, a transmission member causing the bail roller to be displaced by displacement of the transmission member and manual displacement of the bail roller, and a bidirectional motion transmission mechanism for transmitting bidirectional motion between the rotating member and the transmission member.

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Kawasaki, Japan

Chikako Kawana