Seiko Epson Corporation

Daisuke Yanagimachi

Kenichi Hirabayashi

Norio Nagata

Shoichi Murata

Hiroyuki Ishimori

Masashi Nakatsu

Hideki Matsunaga

Shin Yokota

A rolled paper printing apparatus includes a roller, a cutter capable of cutting the rolled paper and including a first blade and a second blade, a first blade-side guide capable of guiding, from the side of the first blade, the paper transported, and a paper guide including a first guide and a second guide. The paper guide includes a first arm on which the first guide is mounted rotatably about a first shaft, a second arm on which the second guide is mounted rotatably about a second shaft, and an arm shaft that rotatably supports the first arm and the second arm. The first guide and the second guide are pushed by the first blade moving in the first direction, and move in the first direction while rotating from a first position at which the paper can be guided and reach a second position.

Rolled paper printing apparatus

A printing apparatus includes a case configured to receive roll paper of a rolled recording medium, a cover rotatably attached to the case to be used to open or close the case, a transport section including a transport motor provided to the case and a transport roller provided to the cover, the transport section being configured to pull the recording medium from the roll paper and transport the recording medium along a recording medium path, and a cut section including a first blade and a first blade motor configured to move the first blade provided to the cover and a second blade provided to the case, the cut section being configured to cut the recording medium. The first blade motor includes a first blade motor shaft, and the first blade motor is provided to the cover such that a first extension line extending from the first blade motor shaft and a second extension line extending from at least part of the recording medium path in a width direction of the recording medium intersect each other when the cover is closed.

Printing apparatus

A printing device includes a main body, an opening/closing cover that is coupled to the main body and moves to an open position or a closed position, a roll paper holder provided on the main body and configured to accommodate a first roll paper, and a remaining amount detecting section that detects a remaining amount of the first roll paper accommodated in the roll paper holder, and the remaining amount detecting section shifts from a first state in which the remaining amount of the first roll paper is not detected to a second state in which the remaining amount of the first roll paper is detected, with movement of the opening/closing cover from the open position to the closed position.

Printing device

A cutter device, comprising: a first blade including a first cutting edge extending in a first direction; a second blade including a second cutting edge extending in a second direction; and a guide portion provided at a position anterior to the second blade in the second direction, wherein the second blade moves in the second direction to cut a recording medium while leaving a part thereof uncut, and when the second blade is located posterior, in the second direction, to a position where the second blade cuts the recording medium, at least a part of the guide portion is located to protrude farther in the first direction than the first cutting edge, or located at a same position as the first cutting edge.

Cutter device and printer

A sheet guide device has a crumpling prevention unit disposed to a movable part with a guide surface that guides a side edge of die-cut label paper conveyed over the top of a feed plate, and prevents crumpling the side portion of the die-cut label paper of which the side edge contacts the guide surface. The crumpling prevention unit includes a pressure-bearing base unit disposed protruding from the top of the feed plate and causing the side portion of the passing die-cut label paper to rise to the side; a sheet presser part that presses the die-cut label paper to the conveyance path surface at the same or adjacent position to the pressure-bearing base unit; and a side presser member that the side edge of the die-cut label paper inclined by the pressure-bearing base unit contacts.

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Matsumoto, Japan

Daisuke Yanagimachi