Patent ID: 9662914
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: B41J

Claim:
1. A printing apparatus which performs printing while transporting a belt-shaped printing base material by considering a longitudinal direction of the printing base material as a transporting direction, the apparatus comprising: a rotating drum which rotates by winding the printing base material around a circumferential side surface, and transports the printing base material in the transporting direction; a recording portion which is disposed at a position opposite to the circumferential side surface, and forms a printed image on the printing base material on the rotating drum; and a driven roller which is positioned to be closer to a downstream side than the recording portion in the transporting direction, nips the printing base material between the rotating drum and the driven roller, and rotates together with the rotating drum, wherein the driven roller is disposed at a position for regulating a terminal position of the transporting direction in which the printing base material is wound in the rotating drum, and wherein the driven roller comes into contact with the printing base material at positions on both sides of a region where the recording portion forms the printed image without contacting the region where printed image is formed, in a direction which intersects with the transporting direction.