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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 31, 1999
Naoki Tanabe, Saitama-ken, JP;
Satoru Tada, Noda, JP;
Seiko Precision, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A printer is capable of stably feeding even a thin recording medium to a printing section and obtaining good print quality similar to that obtainable in the case of a thick recording medium. The printer comprises a first supply path for supplying a first recording medium, a second supply path for supplying a second recording medium thicker than the first recording medium, a printing section for printing on a recording medium supplied from the first supply path or the second supply path, and a delivery section for delivering the recording medium printed in the printing section. A guide spring member which is movable up and down is projected upstream of the printing section and in a meeting portion of the first supply path and the second supply path. This guide spring member serves to support a top surface of the first recording medium at a predetermined height.