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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 12, 1996
Masafumi Kawaura, Nagoya, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
In a printer of which the installation area is significantly reduced, a paper roller, a pressure roller, an eject roller, and a spur roller carry printing paper at an angle of T to a horizontal plane. A stacker for storing the printed paper horizontally therein includes a fixed stacker base formed by part of a housing bottom wall and an auxiliary stacker that can be pushed in and pulled out from under the stacker base. This design shortens a horizontal distance between the paper feed roller and the eject roller, forms the stacker base under a printing mechanism sufficiently long, and shortens the auxiliary stacker in the stacker. Consequently, the total length of the printer with the auxiliary stacker fully extended can be reduced, and the entire auxiliary stacker can be accommodated under the printer.