Patent ID: 8246262
Filing Date: 2012-08-21
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A media transportation control method for a print media processing apparatus for repeatedly reading image information and magnetic ink information from a plurality of slips by an image scanning unit and a magnetic ink reading unit, printing by a print head at a fixed printing position downstream from the magnetic ink reading unit and the image scanning unit, and consecutively conveying each of the plurality of slips by a transportation mechanism, wherein: the transportation mechanism conveys the print medium at a constant speed when feeding a slip through the print media processing apparatus to read the image information and magnetic ink information and print on the slip; origin O is the position of a trailing end of the slip at the position where both the magnetic ink reading unit and the image scanning unit have read to the trailing end of the conveyed slip; c represents a distance between an end of a printing area of the slip and the origin O; b represents a distance between a start of the printing area and the origin O, b being more distal of the origin O than c; b−c is the length of the printing area of the slip; d is a distance between a fixed printing position of the print head and the origin O; and the media transportation control method comprises steps of: