Patent ID: 9092716
Filing Date: 2015-07-28
Classification: B41J,B65H,G06K,H04N

Abstract:
1. A printing apparatus comprising: a printing head for making printing on a medium; a platen disposed as to face the printing head in a way selectable between being close and being remote from the printing head; a medium conveying unit changeable of a contacting state to the medium for conveying the medium in contact with the medium along a medium conveyance route; a shutter opening and closing the medium conveyance route; a mode selecting unit having plural selectable modes in combination of a choice between being close to and being remote from the platen, the contacting state of the medium conveying unit to the medium, and a choice between closing and opening of the medium conveyance route by means of the shutter; and a controller controlling the mode selecting unit for selecting a prescribed mode from the plural selectable modes, wherein the mode selecting unit decides the selected mode in accordance with a position of a rotary body rotating by means of a single drive source, wherein the rotary body has a slit, and further comprising a detecting unit for detecting the rotating slit as a rotational reference position of the rotary body, wherein the mode selecting unit includes a mode change motor serving as one drive source for mode selection, a slit disc serving as the rotary body rotating by drive from the mode change motor, and a reference position mode detecting sensor serving as the detecting unit for detecting the reference position mode among the modes upon detecting a rotational position of the slit disc, and wherein the mode selecting unit classifies the types of the medium to be printed into a single sheet group and a form sheet group and selects the mode where rendering mode groups consisted of the modes correspond to the groups.