Patent ID: 9656483
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: B41J,B42D,B65H

Claim:
1. A conveyance method, comprising: a conveyance control step of conveying a printing medium at least including a booklet along a conveyance surface; and a swing guide control step of rotating a swing guide before the printing medium passes a gap between the swing guide and a page turning roller until a first end of a flat section is above an arrangement surface of a 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, the swing guide has the 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 the page turning roller is 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.