Patent ID: 7934882
Filing Date: 2011-05-03
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A printer comprising: a supply roller for sending a sheet from a stack of sheets within a cassette by rotating in a forward direction, wherein a cross section of the supply roller is a complete circle; a pair of feed-in rollers for sending the sheet supplied by the supply roller toward a printing region by rotating in a forward direction; and a controller configured to selectively rotate the pair of feed-in rollers and the supply roller, wherein until a timing when the controller determines that a printing data for the fed subsequent sheet is not stored within the printer, the controller continues to rotate the supply roller and the pair of feed-in rollers in the forward direction without any temporary stoppage to feed the subsequent sheet, when a front edge of the fed subsequent sheet has reached a predetermined position within the printer at the timing when the controller determines that the printing data for the fed subsequent sheet is not stored within the printer, the controller continues to rotate the pair of feed-in rollers in the forward direction, and when the front edge of the fed subsequent sheet has not reached the predetermined position at the timing when the controller determines that the printing data for the fed subsequent sheet is not stored within the printer, the controller reverses a rotational direction of the supply roller into the rearward direction.