Patent ID: 6575546
Filing Date: 2003-06-10
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
An ink jet printer for forming an image frame in a continuous recording sheet at a size PL with reference to a feeding direction of said continuous recording sheet, said ink jet printer comprising:said continuous recording sheet including plural recording sheets, and a splicing portion for splicing said plural recording sheets to one another in one line; a feeder mechanism for feeding said continuous recording sheet in said feeding direction; a printing head for printing said image frame to said continuous recording sheet being fed; a splice sensor, disposed upstream from said printing head at a distance L1, for detecting said splicing portion, where PL&lE;L1; and a controller for inhibiting said printing head from printing said image frame if an unavailable region including said splicing portion is estimated to overlap on a region of said image frame according to a detection signal from said splice sensor.