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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2017
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsugo Ishida, Yamagata, JP;
Takumi Watanabe, Matsumoto, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided are a carriage structure capable of preventing a carriage from contacting a side edge of a print medium, without requiring a discharge roller and facilitating reducing device size, and a printer having the carriage structure. Disposed to a carriagecarrying and inkjet headand moving bidirectionally through a range of movement including the conveyance path of a cut-sheet paper S are: a panel memberable to protrude in the direction of carriagemovement; and a moving mechanismcausing the panel memberto protrude to the conveyance path of the cut-sheet paper S when the carriageis at a standby position (home position) set in the range of carriagemovement.