Patent ID: 9393805
Filing Date: 2016-07-19
CPC Classification: B41J,B42D,B65H

Claim Text:
1. A printing apparatus, comprising: a conveyance mechanism configured to convey a printing medium at least including a booklet along a conveyance surface; a page turning mechanism comprising: a swing guide which has a flat section substantially on the same plane with the conveyance surface at a preset rotation position and rotates around a shaft substantially orthogonal to a conveyance direction of the printing medium to incline the flat section with respect to the conveyance surface to bend the booklet on the flat section; and a page turning roller configured at a position opposite to the flat section of the swing guide and abutted against the booklet bent by the swing guide to turn pages of the booklet; and a swing guide control section configured to rotate the swing guide before the printing medium passes through a gap between the flat section and the page turning roller until a first end of the flat section is above the arrangement surface of the conveyance surface and a second end of the flat section is below the arrangement surface of the conveyance surface, wherein the first end of the flat section is located further along the conveyance direction than the second end of the flat section; and a detection section configured to detect the pass of a leading end of the printing medium over the first end of the flat surface, in the case where the detection section detects the pass of the leading end of the print medium, the swing guide control section rotates the swing guide until the flat section is substantially on the same plane with the conveyance surface.