Patent ID: 7170541
Filing Date: 2007-01-30
Classification: G03B

Abstract:
1. A photographic printer used to print upon a rolled paper which is pulled out so as to be unwound from a rolled paper body and conveyed upstream with a predetermined conveying speed from said rolled paper body for a forward movement, said rolled paper having an inside surface which is wound inside said rolled paper body, said photographic printer comprising: a pick-up roller unwinding and picking up said rolled paper from its beginning end; a nipping portion composed of a main roller and a pinch roller for nipping said beginning end of said rolled paper sandwiched therebetween, so that a nipping arrangement between said main roller and said pinch roller is set with an appropriate distance; a printing head for producing a predetermined photographic image data upon said inside surface as a printed rolled paper; a cutter cutting said printed rolled paper to produce a printed sheet immediately before ejecting from said photographic printer; and photographic control means for controlling to print said predetermined photographic image data upon said rolled paper; wherein said photographic control means comprises convey-halt means for halting to convey upstream said rolled paper for a backward movement until said nipping portion; and halt-convey means for continuing to halt for a constant time and thereafter conveying downstream said rolled paper again, so that said printed sheet is cut in a predetermined position thereof before being ejected; wherein said rolled paper has a photographic region in correspondence to the predetermined photographic image data upon said inside surface of said rolled paper which is pulled out and is unwound from said rolled paper body and said printing head is disposed on a side of said inside surface; wherein a paper body arrangement distance between said rolled paper body and said nipping portion is appropriately set, so that said beginning end of said rolled paper is held in said nipping portion and said photographic region of said rolled paper is rolled back upon said rolled paper body; wherein said photographic control means comprises decelerating means for decelerating to a speed slower than said predetermined conveying speed after halting of said constant time; and wherein said photographic control means comprises acceleration means for accelerating such a slow conveying speed up to said predetermined conveying speed after a finishing end of said rolled paper is passed by said nipping portion.