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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 1995
Filed:
May. 25, 1993
Izumi Matsushita, Shizuoka, JP;
Kazuhiro Fushimi, Shizuoka, JP;
Tokyo Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A label printer for printing an image on a plurality of labels attached to a base sheet and issuing the labels on which the image has been printed. The label printer includes a platen roller, a pinch roller adapted to separably contact the platen roller through the base sheet, a slide frame for supporting the pinch roller so that the pinch roller is movable between a contact position and a separate position with respect to the platen roller, and a frame stopper for releasably holding the slide frame in the contact position where the pinch roller is in contact with the platen roller. When the frame stopper is released from the slide frame, the slide frame is slid to reach the separate position to widely separate the pinch roller from the platen roller. Accordingly, the base sheet can be easily inserted through the space defined between the platen roller and the pinch roller separated therefrom.