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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 2003
Filed:
May. 03, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kunio Omura, Nagano, JP;
Assignee:
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 1/120 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 1/120 ;
Abstract
An apparatus and method technique to secure a smooth transporting of a recording medium in a printing device of the type in which a gap between the print head and the platen is included in a transport path for another purpose, e.g., reading of magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) characters on the recording medium, through use of a platen which is rotatable between two positions: a support position and a guide position, and which minimizes the gap adjacent the platen in the guide position.