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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2014
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Takahito Sanekata, Shiojiri, JP;
Daiki Tokushima, Suwa, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image recording apparatus includes: a heating section which is located further on the downstream side of a transport pathway than an image recording area, but further on the upstream side of the transport pathway than a transport roller which is rotated by a motor; and a control section which lowers the suction power of a suction section to a medium from a first suction power to a second suction power lower than the first suction power during a recording operation and makes a first torque which is generated at the motor in a period which is during the recording operation and in which the suction power of the suction section is a suction power lower than the first suction power, be lower than a second torque which is generated at the motor during a transport operation.