Patent ID: 8485747

Claim:
A printer, comprising: a main unit including a platen roller for feeding a recording sheet; and a detachable unit separably combined with the main unit, having a recording head, the main unit comprising: a wall portion provided on a downstream side in a feeding direction of the recording sheet with respect to the platen roller and extended along a plane orthogonal to the feeding direction; a guide member which is supported at an upper end of the wall portion, and has an upper surface and a side surface, the upper surface serving as a guide surface on which the fed recording sheet is guided to the downstream side, the side surface being curved in conformity to an outer peripheral surface of the platen roller and serving as an opposed surface opposed to the outer peripheral surface with a gap; and a stopper portion which is provided on a downstream side in a rotating direction of the platen roller with respect to the guide member, and defines, between the platen roller and the wall portion, a retention space in which the recording sheet having passed through the gap between the opposed surface and the outer peripheral surface of the platen roller is retained, the stopper portion having a claw portion for pulling the recording sheet having passed through the gap between the opposed surface and the outer peripheral surface of the platen roller apart from the platen roller and for retaining the pulled-apart recording sheet in the retention space.