Patent ID: 7101032

Claim:
A transportation apparatus of a medium comprising: a surface on which a plurality of sucking holes are formed and on which a medium is transported while being sucked; a decompression chamber communicated with the sucking holes; wherein the surface is stationary with respect to the decompression chamber, and the sucking holes are provided in a liquid jetting area which is opposed to a liquid jet head and in an area located downstream of the liquid jetting area, and the surface is formed so as to become lower toward a downstream side from an upstream side of a transportation direction of the medium such that the medium is bent at an immediately downstream side of the liquid jetting area, the transportation apparatus further comprises a sucking device sucking air in the decompression chamber, wherein each of sucking holes is provided with a sucking aperture connecting to the decompression chamber and a sucking chamber having a closed shape where an area of a sucking surface facing the medium is larger than a sectional area of the sucking aperture.