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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2021
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Kohei Tatsuta, Nagano, JP;
Tadashi Ishikawa, Nagano, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A printing apparatus includes a medium accommodation portion that accommodates a medium, a medium discharge port for discharging the medium, a medium transport section that transports the medium, an ejection head that ejects a liquid to the medium to form an image, and an image detection section that detects the image. The printing apparatus has a first mode and a second mode, the first mode being a mode in which the medium transport section transports the medium in a direction from the medium accommodation portion toward the medium discharge port, and the ejection head ejects the liquid to the medium, and the second mode being a mode in which the medium transport section transports the medium in a direction from the medium discharge port toward the medium accommodation portion, and the image detection section detects image information of the image formed on the medium.