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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 08, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Shinji Nureki, Chiba, JP;
Assignee:
Seiko Instruments Inc., , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 1/300 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 1/300 ;
Abstract
A line printer is provided in which disturbances during the start of printing are prevented with low power consumption. The printer has a motor control section which performs a stop printing operation by driving a stepping motor in a direction reverse to that in which print paper is fed by a predetermined number of steps and then turns off the stepping motor to stop printing and performs a start printing operation in which the stepping motor is driven in a forward direction by the same predetermined number of steps before starting a printing operation.