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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2023
Applicant:
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Daisuke Hiruma, Matsumoto, JP;
Assignee:
SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 11/00 (2005.12);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 11/0022 (2020.12); B41J 11/007 (2012.12);
Abstract
A printing apparatus includes: a transport unit configured to transport a medium in a transport direction; a printing unit configured to cause ink to adhere to the medium to perform printing; and a blowing device including an air blowing port and configured to blow air from the air blowing port to the medium to which the ink adheres. A guide member is disposed, at the air blowing port, downstream in an air blowing direction. Of end portions of the guide member, a third end portion that faces the medium extends along the transport direction.