Patent ID: 9044980
Filing Date: 2015-06-02
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A platen gap adjustment mechanism, comprising: a carriage guide shaft; a carriage drive unit that is supported on the carriage guide shaft and pivotable around an axis of the carriage guide shaft; a main carriage that is supported on the carriage drive unit, pivotable around a parallel axis that is parallel to the axis of the carriage guide shaft, and configured to carry a printhead for printing on a print medium conveyed along a media conveyance path between the printhead and a platen; and a sub-carriage supported on the carriage drive unit and pivotable around the axis of the carriage guide shaft independently of a rotational movement of the carriage drive unit about the axis of the carriage guide shaft; wherein the main carriage is slidable on the sub-carriage toward and away from the platen.