Seiko Epson Corporation

Koji Hashiuchi

Masaki Shimomura

Wataru Suzuki

Masahiro Isono

Tomoyuki Mokuo

Seiji Tezuka

Hiroshi Asawa

Hiroyuki Tajima

Mikinobu Abe

Kenjiro Ishihara

Kazuo Otsuka

Yoichi Kobayashi

Mamoru Ukita

Tomoko Iwasaki

Yoji Sasai

Printer

A transferring tray for a printing apparatus for printing on one major surface of a recording media having disc shape, wherein the printing apparatus includes, a carriage having a printing head, reciprocating in a main scanning direction, a transferring unit transferring the recording media in a sub scanning direction, a detecting unit detecting the recording media being transferred by the transferring unit, and a recording unit printing on the one major surface of the recording media, the transferring tray including: a tray body having a rectangular plate shape made of a material which is not detected by the detecting unit; a detected portion formed on either one of two major surfaces of the tray body, being detectable by the detecting unit; and a mounting portion having a mounting recess such that the one major surface of the recording media comes up to substantially same level as one of the major surfaces of the tray body when the recording media is mounted on the transferring tray.

Tray for transferring recording media, and recording apparatus

An ink jet recording apparatus includes a paper gap switching portion for switching paper gaps by moving a recording head, a pressing-force adjustment portion for applying a pressure to a following roller and releasing the pressure from the following roller so as to adjust a pressing force applied to a recording medium, and an operation member for controlling a driving operation of the paper gap switching portion and a driving operation for the pressing-force adjustment portion.

Ink-jet recording apparatus

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Nagano-ken, Japan

Koji Hashiuchi