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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 1997
Filed:
Mar. 11, 1996
Naoto Yamaguchi, Nagano, JP;
Hiroshi Ishida, Nagano, JP;
Yukihiro Uchiyama, Nagano, JP;
Masayuki Kumazaki, Nagano, JP;
Kazuhiko Yamaguchi, Nagano, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A printing method of playing out piled sheets of paper one by one, feeding the played-out sheet of paper to the position of a platen, and printing the sheet of paper, the printing method includes the steps of: (a) feeding the sheet of paper played out from the piled position thereof at a first speed until the sheet of paper approaches a platen which is stopping; (b) feeding the sheet of paper at a second speed lower than the first speed until a required short time passes from a time when the sheet of paper is engaged with the stopping platen, for performing a sheet flexing and a sheet skew removing; and (c) driving the platen at the second speed to feed the sheet of paper to a printing position. And the printing apparatus performs the printing method.