Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Makoto Yumoto

Shunichi Ogawa

Shingo Kato

Kazuhiro Suzuki

Hideto Miyazaki

Takashi Kimura

Takeshi Motohashi

Mamoru Takezawa

Tomoyuki Moriya

Shoji Yanagida

Osamu Kuramochi

Eiji Hashimoto

A printing apparatus such as a printer of the type using a type wheel includes two guide members which extend between a pair of side frames and each of which is fixed by riveting. A carrier is slidably mounted on the guide members. A carriage loaded with a type wheel and others is mounted on a carrier in such a manner as to be rotatable by 90 degrees between a predetermined print position and a wheel replace position behind the print position. A sensor for determining the presence/absence and the kind of a type wheel loaded in the carriage is provided.

Frame structure of a printer with positioning openings

A printing device such as a printer of the type using a type wheel in which a carriage is loaded with a printing mechanism and movable along a carrier to allow the printing mechanism to print out data on a paper, which is wrapped around a platen. The carrier and/or the carriage is produced by press-forming a single sheet metal to cut down the production cost and the number of structural elements of the printer.

Printing device with carriage and carrier therefor each integrally

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