Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Masayoshi Komori

Toshio Tanaka

Kazumine Koshi

Shozoh Shiraga

Yuji Doi

Noriyuki Saito

Satoshi Yamaura

Kenji Nakasono

Tohru Arakawa

The present invention simplifies the operation to set the printing sheet in the printer. The present invention includes main body, storage space for printing sheet, which is disposed in the main body and having a top opening, cover which is installed at the top opening of the storage space and can be freely opened and closed, printing sheet stored in the storage space, sheet outlet port formed between the opening end of the cover and the storage space wall opposing thereto, printing section disposed below the sheet outlet port, and sheet cutting means disposed below the printing section, wherein the sheet cutting means includes stationary blade disposed on the opening end of the cover located below the printing section, and movable blade disposed on the main body portion opposing to the stationary blade.

Printer

Printing device with cutter

A thermal line printer usable as a small output terminal. A printer body has a platen roller rotatably supported by a casing having side plates on either side thereof. A line-printing type thermal head is swingably supported by the printer body while being resiliently urged toward the platen roller. This arrangement allows the thermal head to be easily mounted on and dismounted from the printer body.

Thermal line printer

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Hirakata, Japan

Masayoshi Komori