Patent ID: 8342673
Filing Date: 2013-01-01
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A printing apparatus comprising: a head unit that ejects liquid on a printing medium that is transported in a printing medium transport direction; a first transporting roller unit that is disposed at a printing medium transport direction upstream side of the head unit; a second transporting roller unit that is downstream of the first transporting roller unit; a transporting belt unit that is disposed at a printing medium transport direction downstream side of the head unit; an intermediate supporting unit that is disposed at a side facing the head unit; and a heating unit that is disposed to at least one of the first transporting roller unit, the transporting belt unit and the intermediate supporting unit to heat the printing medium, wherein the heating unit heats the printing medium so that a temperature T wherein the head unit is divided into a plurality of head units having a first group of head units located upstream from the second transporting roller unit and a second group of head units located downstream from the second transporting roller unit, the first and second groups being configured in an alternating formation, wherein the second transporting roller unit includes a plurality of rollers attached to a single shaft, the single shaft including sections that do not include a roller, the sections of the single shaft that do not include a roller being located between each of the plurality of rollers and an adjacent roller, the plurality of rollers being configured such that the sections of the shaft that do not include a roller are aligned with and downstream from the first group of head units and at least some of the plurality of rollers are aligned with and upstream from the second group of head units.