Patent ID: 7093931
Filing Date: 2006-08-22
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A medium transportation apparatus comprising: a sucking device for sucking a medium and a delivering device for transporting a medium from an upstream side to a downstream side of the sucking device, the sucking device having a medium transportation surface on which a plurality of sucking holes are formed, a decompression chamber connected to the sucking holes, and a sucking force generating portion for sucking air in the decompression chamber; wherein the medium supplied by the delivering device on the medium transportation surface is transported from the upstream side to the downstream side while being stuck on the medium transportation surface by suction of the sucking device through the sucking holes when a liquid fixing on the medium is conducted, and wherein the delivering device includes a blowing device for blowing air into the decompression chamber of the sucking device after finishing the liquid fixing and an auxiliary transporting device moving subsidiarily the medium to a discharging direction of the medium.