Patent ID: 7562974
Filing Date: 2009-07-21
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A printing apparatus of printing an image, comprising: an image forming unit that forms the image on a recording paper; a transport unit that conveys the recording paper through the image forming unit and in a forward-and-rearward direction, wherein a part of the recording paper is not able to pass through the recording unit while the transport unit conveys the recording paper; and a rotating unit that reverses the recording paper in a transport path with respect to the forward-and-rearward direction, wherein the printing apparatus sequentially performs: a first printing process of printing a part of the image in a first region of the recording paper while the recording paper is transported by the transport unit, wherein the first region passes through the image forming unit while the transport unit conveys the recording paper in the forward direction; a reversing process of rotating a recording paper around an axis parallel with a normal line so that a leading edge and a rear end of a recording paper in the forward conveying direction replace each other; and a second printing process of printing the rest of the image in a second region of the recording paper while the recording paper is transported by the transport unit, wherein the second region passes through the image forming unit while the transport unit conveys the recording paper in the forward direction, wherein the first region includes one end of the recording paper and the second region includes another end of the recording paper, and wherein the first region and the second region are on the same surface of the recording paper.