Seiko Epson Corporation

Kenichi Hirabayashi

Seiji Kimura

Yoshiki Kinoshita

Shinsuke Tomomatsu

Hiroto Miyauchi

Makoto Omuro

Akira Koyabu

Hironori Maekawa

Norio Nagata

Ayumu Nakamura

Tsutomu Momose

Toshiya Matsuse

Shoichi Murata

Kanako Nakatani

Masahiko Yamada

Hideki Kawakami

Naoki Asai

Motoyoshi Shirotori

Takashi Makino

Taku Hirashima

Kazuya Oshida

Tsukasa Abe

Masashi Nakatsu

Daisuke Yanagimachi

Shunpei Ogaya

A printing apparatus includes, in a printing apparatus main body, a cover configured to open and close a housing portion configured to house a recording medium, and a first support shaft and a second support shaft configured to rotatably support the cover. The first support shaft is disposed in a position closer to the printing unit than to the housing portion, and the second support shaft is disposed in a position farther from the printing unit than from the housing portion. The cover is configured such that, when displaced from a closed position in a first direction, the cover is rotationally movable around the first support shaft up to a first open position, and that, when the cover is displaced from the closed position in a second direction, the cover is rotationally movable around the second support shaft up to a second open position.

Printing apparatus having a cover capable of opening in two directions

While a cover moves to a closed position, a second engagement portion contacts a first engagement portion to displace the first engagement portion, and thus a guide portion moves to a guide position. While the cover moves from the closed position to a first open position, the second engagement portion and the first engagement portion are separated, and the guide portion moves from the guide position to an open position.

Sheet guide mechanism and printing apparatus

With a cover in a closed position, a first internal gear and a first spur gear do not mesh with each other, and a second internal gear and a second spur gear do not mesh with each other. When the cover rotates by a predetermined angle around a first support shaft from the closed position, the first internal gear and the first spur gear start to mesh with each other. When the cover rotates by a predetermined angle around a second support shaft from the closed position, the second internal gear and the second spur gear start to mesh with each other.

Printing apparatus

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.

Sheet guide device and printer

An inkjet printer is provided with a printer front where a paper exit of the printer opens, the printer also having a roll paper replacement opening disposed below the paper exit on a vertical axis, an ink cartridge replacement opening disposed on one side of the roll paper replacement opening on a transverse axis, and a waste ink tank replacement opening disposed on another side of the roll paper replacement opening on the transverse axis.

Inkjet printer having consumable replacement openings

A printing device has an outside coverthat pivots in a closing direction from an open position and moves to a closed position; a stationary-side pressure leverthat rotates in the same direction as the closing direction from a stationary-side release position where a stationary-side media pressure part is separated from the conveyance path surface, and moves to a stationary-side pressure position wherein roll paper is pressed to the conveyance path surface by the stationary-side media pressure part when the outside coverrotates in the closing direction; and a movable-side pressure leverthat rotates in the opposite direction as the closing direction from a movable-side release position where a movable-side media pressure part is separated from the conveyance path surface, and moves to a movable-side pressure position wherein roll paper is pressed to the conveyance path surface by the movable-side media pressure part when the outside coverrotates in the closing direction.

Printing device

A sheet pressing device enables reliably pivoting a presser lever that presses a sheet material to a feed path surface to a pressure position and a released position. The sheet pressing device has a movable-side presser lever configured to pivot between a pressure position where die-cut label paper conveyed over the feed path surface is pressed by a sheet presser part to a flat surface, and a released position where the sheet presser part is separated from the die-cut label paper; and a lever spring respectively urges the movable-side presser lever to the pressure position or the released position from a neutral point between the pressure position and the released position.

Sheet pressing device and printer

An inkjet printer is provided with a printer front located on a front face of the inkjet printer and having a paper exit formed therethrough, a roll paper replacement opening formed in the printer front below the paper exit, an ink cartridge replacement opening formed in the printer front on a first side of the roll paper replacement opening and a waste ink tank replacement opening formed in the printer front on a second side of the roll paper replacement opening on the transverse axis.

Printer

A cutter and a printer having a cutter prevent the paper pieces cut off by the cutter from collecting at the paper exit from which the cut-off pieces are discharged. A stage surfacedefines the bottom edgeof the paper exit. A sloped guide surfaceis formed sloping down from the downstream side of the stage surface. A first side walldetermines where one side of the width of the paper passes over the stage surfaceand the sloped guide surface. A second side walldetermines where the other side of the width of the paper passes. A protrusionis formed on the first side wallprotruding toward the second side wallWhen label paperis cut, the cut-off portionis deposited on the stage surfacecovering the top of the protrusion. As a result, the cut-off portionis made unstable by the protrusionimmediately after being deposited on the stage surface, and slides down easily. The cut-off portionslides down from the stage surfacealong the sloped guide surfaceand is discharged smoothly from the paper exit

Cutter and printer with cutter

Check scanner with printer

Recording devices with adjustable and lockable recording medium width guides, and support mechanisms for adjustable and lockable recording medium width guides are disclosed. A recording device includes a pair of recording medium width guides that control the widthwise position of a recording medium upon discharge from the recording device. A support mechanism supports the width guides and can lock the position of the width guides. The support mechanism includes a pair of sliding members individually coupled with one of the width guides, and a pressure member that clamps the sliding members together at a position where the sliding members overlap. The pressure member is configurable to clamp the sliding members together, and to unclamp the sliding members.

Recording device, and support mechanism for side guide members in a recording device

Check scanner

An image recording device can accumulate discharged paper neatly stacked in a paper tray even when the length of the discharged paper changes. An inkjet printerthat records images on and discharges roll paperfrom a paper exithas a cutter unitthat cuts the roll paperafter an image is recorded, and a discharge tray unitthat receives slipsdischarged from the paper exitafter being cut by the cutter unit. The discharge tray unitis connected by a hinge at an incline to the caseso that the paper stopdisposed at the distal end of the discharge tray unitis down, and is configured so that the length of the discharge tray unitis adjustable, and the inclination angle of the discharge tray unitis changed by the operation of shortening the length of the discharge tray unitto a more horizontal angle than when the length of the discharge tray unitis extended.

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Shiojiri, Japan

Kenichi Hirabayashi