Patent ID: 6205918
Filing Date: 2001-03-27
Classification: B41L

Abstract:
A stencil printer comprising:a plurality of ink drums spaced from each other in a direction of paper conveyance, and each having a respective master wrapped therearound and fed with ink from ink feeding means to an inner periphery thereof;a plurality of pressing devices each being configured to move toward and away from one of said plurality of ink drums; andan intermediate conveyor for conveying a paper on which an image is printed at an upstream print position where an upstream one of said plurality of ink drums in the direction of paper conveyance and one of said plurality of pressing devices associated with said upstream one nip said paper to a downstream print position where a downstream of said plurality of ink drums in said direction and the other of said plurality of pressing devices associated with said downstream one nip said paper, said intermediate conveyor being positioned between said upstream ink drum and said downstream ink drum,wherein a paper conveyance distance which the paper moves while being conveyed from said upstream print position to said downstream print position is made sufficiently longer than a distance between said upstream print position and said downstream print position such that the paper is not pulled by said downstream ink drum while being printed at said upstream ink drum.