Patent ID: 6179498
Filing Date: 2001-01-30
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
A printer comprising a print head, a platen disposed opposite to the print head, the print head and the platen forming a path closing section, a recording paper path through which recording paper is transported past the path closing section, a lever for manually opening the path closing section to release the recording paper and for closing the path closing section to hold the recording paper, and a recording paper transport for transporting the recording paper along the recording paper path, further comprising:an open path detector for detecting that the path closing section is closed to hold the recording paper when the lever is in a first position, and for detecting that the path closing section is open to release the recording paper when the lever is in a second position;a paper transport controller responsive to the open path detector for starting the recording paper transport past the path closing section when the open path detector detects that the path closing section is open;a recording paper detector that detects the presence of recording paper in the recording paper path;a transport amount detector that detects the transport amount performed by the recording paper transport; andthe paper transport controller being responsive to the recording paper detector and the transport amount detector for stopping the recording paper transport when no recording paper is detected and a first predetermined recording paper transport amount is detected.