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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 1997
Filed:
Jun. 01, 1995
Satoshi Fujioka, Nagano, JP;
Hiromu Hirabayashi, Nagano, JP;
Nobuhisa Takabayashi, Nagano, JP;
Atsushi Nishizawa, Nagano, JP;
Kiyoto Komuro, Nagano, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An ink jet printer comprising a recording device for jetting ink droplets from a printer head while moving in a direction perpendicular to the direction of conveyance of a recording medium in the form of a sheet, to form a dot image on the recording medium according to an input time, further including a pair of sheet retaining devices respectively arranged before and behind in the direction of travel of the recording device, where one of the pair of sheet retaining devices arranged before in the direction of travel is displaced to push against the recording medium in order to form a predetermined clearance between the printer head and the recording medium, while the other is displaced to leave from the recording medium.