Patent ID: 6644875
Filing Date: 2003-11-11
Classification: B41J,B65H,Y10S

Abstract:
A printing apparatus comprising:a body frame; a sheet carrier fixed to the body frame and having a sheet conveyor surface defining a straight sheet conveyor path; a platen exposed to the sheet conveyor path through the sheet conveyor surface of the sheet carrier; a print head opposed to the platen; sheet conveyor rollers arranged on the upper-stream side of the platen in the sheet feeding direction, holding a sheet from both sides, obverse and reverse, and capable of transporting the sheet; a skew correcting mechanism including stopper members arranged between the platen and said conveyor rollers in the feeding direction and capable of projecting above the sheet conveyor path and receding from the sheet conveyor path; and a control device including a sheet sensor, said sheet conveyor rollers being adapted to rotate a set angle in a direction opposite to the sheet feeding direction such that the sheet is separated from the stopper members of the skew correcting mechanism before the stopper members are evacuated from a sheet conveyor path.