Patent ID: 8827438
Filing Date: 2014-09-09
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A recording apparatus comprising: a recording head which adheres a recording material to a recording medium when the recording medium is transported in a horizontal transport direction; a first roller installed downstream from the recording head in a transport path, wherein the recording medium is transported downward by the first roller; and a drying unit installed downstream from the first roller in the transport path, the drying unit being configured to heat and dry the recording material, wherein the drying unit includes a guide member that turns back the transport path from a downward orientation away from the horizontal transport direction to an upward orientation towards the horizontal transport direction and the recording medium is transported from the downward orientation to the upward orientation through the drying unit, wherein the recording medium enters and exits the drying unit intermittently through a first wall of the drying unit through, respectively, an entry opening and an exit opening, the entry opening and the exit opening being formed in the first wall and separated by an air discharge opening in the first wall.