Patent ID: 9022549
Filing Date: 2015-05-05
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A printing apparatus comprising: a transporting unit configured to transport an elongated printing medium along a transport path; a printing unit configured to perform a printing process on the printing medium, which is transported forward from an upstream side to a downstream side by the transporting unit, at a print position in the transport path; a cutting unit configured to cut the printing medium at a cutting position on the downstream side of the print position so as to divide a part of the printing medium, on which the printing process is performed; and a removing unit configured to remove cutting dust, at a removal position on the downstream side of the print position, wherein the printing unit performs the printing process on a non-printed part thereof from which the cutting dust is removed through the removing unit by transporting the printing medium backward to the print position, and wherein the removing unit includes a pair of pinching members, wherein at least one of the pinching members comprises a porous material that captures the cutting dust inside the pores of the porous material, and one of the pair of pinching members is selectively biased toward the other of the pair of pinching members to selectively contact the elongated printing medium following cutting of the printing medium at the cutting position, wherein the removal position is on the downstream side of the cutting position.