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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2014
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Takafumi Ogimura, Nagano, JP;
Atsushi Sumii, Nagano, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A printer includes a pair of input rollers, a pair of output rollers, a print head and a control section. The control section is configured to transport a print medium by rotating the input rollers and the output rollers after printing on a target region and before printing on a next target region. The control section is configured to determine, before carrying out transporting, whether a combination of the input rollers and the output rollers which pinch the print medium would change in a case where the print medium were transported from a current position to a next target position, and, in a case where there would be a change, the control section being configured to transport the print medium from the current position to the target position in a retracted state where the print head is moved to an outside of a range where the print medium passes.