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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 30, 1999
Riso Kagaku Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a stencil printer including a rotatable paper pinch drum with a cutout, a plurality of printing drums, and a position control unit. The cutout is formed in a portion of the outer peripheral surface of the rotatable paper pinch drum along a generating line in the axial direction of the drum. The plurality of printing drums have axes parallel with an axis of the paper pinch drum and disposed around and near the paper pinch drum so that the printing drums rotate in synchronization with the paper pinch drum in the opposition direction from the direction of rotation of the paper pinch drum. Each of the printing drums includes a stencil paper clamper which clamps one end of a paper stencil wound around the outer peripheral surface of the printing drum and an internal press roller which supplies ink to the stencil paper. Printing is performed on printing paper held on the outer peripheral surface of the paper pinch drum when the printing drums and the paper pinch drum rotate so that the paper stencil anchors of the printing drums are received in order in the cutout of the paper pinch drum. The position control unit independently controls each movement of the internal press rollers of the printing drums between an operative position which performs printing on the printing paper and an inoperative position which performs no printing.