Patent ID: 7725071
Filing Date: 2010-05-25
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A printer comprising: a printing unit for printing onto a piece of sheet; a cassette located below the printing unit and for containing stacked sheets; a supply unit for feeding a piece of sheet from the cassette toward the printing unit; a sheet support plate located in the printing unit, on which the piece of sheet fed from the cassette is placed while being printed, and an opening being formed on the sheet support plate; a cover plate located in the printing unit, being movable between a covering position that covers the opening and an uncovering position that uncovers the opening; and a pair of feed-out rollers that nips the piece of sheet at the exit of the printing unit and rotates in a forward direction to pull out the nipped piece of sheet from the printing unit; wherein the cover plate is at the covering position during printing, and the cover plate is at the uncovering position when the pair of feed-out rollers that pulls out the nipped piece of sheet rotates in a reverse direction and guides the piece of sheet through the opening of the sheet support plate to a refeed position between the cassette and the supply unit.