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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2025
Filed:
May. 08, 2023
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Motoyuki Taguchi, Tokyo, JP;
Masaaki Matsuura, Kanagawa, JP;
Noriyuki Sugiyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Junichi Kubokawa, Nagasaki, JP;
Yasunori Matsumoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Yumi Mukoyama, Tokyo, JP;
Takahiro Kiuchi, Tokyo, JP;
Kyosuke Kamishima, Kanagawa, JP;
Haruo Uchida, Tokyo, JP;
Keisei Hakamata, Kanagawa, JP;
Takaaki Ishida, Kanagawa, JP;
Shoichi Kan, Kanagawa, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A printing apparatus includes a printing unit, and first, second, and third conveyance paths. The printing unit performs printing at a printing position on a print medium conveyed in a conveyance direction. The first conveyance path causes the print medium to pass through the printing position of the printing unit. The second conveyance path reverses obverse and reverse surfaces of the print medium, and the third conveyance path reverses obverse and reverse surfaces of the print medium. The second conveyance path branches from the first conveyance path at a first branching point on a downstream side of the printing position in the conveyance direction and merges into the first conveyance path on an upstream side of the printing position. The third conveyance path branches from a second branching point on the second conveyance path and merges into the first conveyance path on the upstream side of the printing position.