Patent ID: 7891894
Filing Date: 2011-02-22
Classification: B26D,B41J

Abstract:
1. A printer that prints information on a printing medium or rigid medium, the printer comprising: a conveyance path along which the printing medium is conveyed; printing means for printing the information either on the printing medium inserted into a printer body and conveyed along the conveyance path or on the rigid medium disposed in the conveyance path; cutting means disposed over the conveyance path and connected to an operation member operable manually from outside the printer body for causing the cutting means to cut a part of the printing medium on which the information is printed by the printing means; and prohibiting means for prohibiting the cutting means from being manually operated via the operation member when the rigid medium is inserted into the conveyance path, wherein the prohibiting means comprises operation preventing means, responsive to the rigid medium being inserted into the conveyance path, for preventing the cutting means from being manually operable via the operation member.