Patent ID: 8967787
Filing Date: 2015-03-03
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A recording apparatus comprising: a support member which supports a recording medium; a recording head which applies a recording material to one surface of the recording medium supported on the support member, wherein the support member includes a platen that is heated and configured to increase a viscosity of ink adhered to the one surface of the recording medium, the recording medium traversing on the platen in a first transport direction; and a fixing unit which fixes the recording material adhered to the one surface of the recording medium transported from the support member, the fixing unit including a guide member separate from the support member and an air discharge opening, the guide member extending from an entry opening of the recording medium into a casing of the fixing unit to an exit opening of the recording medium from the casing of the fixing unit, the air discharge opening being spaced apart from the entry opening and the exit opening, wherein a surface of the recording medium is supported by the guide member while inside the fixing unit, wherein the platen and the guide member of the fixing unit are arranged to be partly overlapped with each other in an up and down direction, wherein the guide member includes two first portions parallel to each other and a second portion perpendicular to and connecting the first portions, the air discharge opening being disposed in the casing at a location opposite to the second portion in a direction of air discharge from the fixing unit, and wherein a length of the guide member from the entry opening to the exit opening, including the portion of the guide member extending in the second transport direction of the recording medium in the fixing unit, is larger than a length of a recording region on the support member, wherein the length of the recording region corresponds to a distance in the first transport direction in which the recording head reciprocates.