Patent ID: 8197057

Claim:
A printing apparatus comprising: a rotating drum that holds a recording medium on a cylindrical outer peripheral surface thereof and rotates around a rotating shaft; a printing head that is disposed opposite to the outer peripheral surface of the rotating drum and ejects ink onto the recording medium held on the rotating drum to perform a printing operation; wherein the rotating drum comprises an ink receiving portion that includes a liquid absorbing member that receives ink preliminarily ejected from the printing head, wherein the rotating drum holds a first recording medium and a second recording medium arranged in a rotating direction, wherein a distance between a rotating direction downstream end of the first recording medium and a rotating direction upstream end of the second recording medium is larger than a distance between a rotating direction downstream end of the second recording medium and a rotating direction upstream end of the first recording medium, and wherein the liquid absorbing member is provided between the rotating direction downstream end of the first recording medium and the rotating direction upstream end of the second recording medium.