Patent ID: 7575317
Filing Date: 2009-08-18
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. An ink jet printer comprising: a printing medium conveying section for conveying a printing medium by mounting it on a conveying belt; and a printing head set by facing a printing face, which is a face opposite side to the conveying face of the printing medium conveyed by the printing medium conveying section, and arranging a plurality of nozzles for discharging ink drips in the direction intersecting with the conveying direction of the printing medium; wherein the printing medium conveying section has a first and a second conveying portions connected in the conveying direction of the printing medium and having a plurality of conveying belts by mutually keeping a predetermined interval, and the conveying belts of the first and second conveying portions are arranged so that an other-hand conveying belt is located between one-hand conveying belts; and wherein either of the first and second conveying portions is set to the number of conveying belts one more than the number of conveying belts of the other and the conveying belts of the first and second conveying portions are alternately arranged centering around the central conveying belt of a conveying portion having an odd number of the conveying belts among the first and second conveying portions.