Patent ID: 8348271

Claim:
A printer comprising: a supply roller for sending a sheet from stacked sheets within a cassette towards a sheet guide; a pair of feed-in rollers for sending the sheet sent from the sheet guide towards a printing region; and a controller, wherein: a sending force of the pair of feed-in rollers is greater than a sending force of the supply roller, a sending speed of the pair of feed-in rollers is greater than a sending speed of the supply roller, the controller has a simultaneous mode in which the supply roller and the pair of feed-in rollers are configured to rotate simultaneously in a forward direction, and in said simultaneous mode: there is an overlap between a preceding sheet and a subsequent sheet when the subsequent sheet is taken out from the cassette by the forward rotation of the supply roller, the supply roller keeps a position unchanged and keeps contacting the preceding sheet until the supply roller contacts the subsequent sheet, the supply roller and the pair of feed-in rollers rotate simultaneously so that there is no time period when one of the supply roller and the pair of feed-in rollers rotates and the other does not rotate while a plurality of subsequent sheets is taken out sequentially from the cassette, the preceding sheet is sent by the sending speed of the pair of feed-in rollers that is greater than the sending speed of the supply roller while the preceding sheet is in contact with both the supply roller and the pair of feed-in rollers, and the preceding sheet slides with respect to the supply roller while the preceding sheet is being sent by the pair of feed-in rollers, such that a space is formed between the preceding sheet and the subsequent sheet when the preceding sheet passes through the pair of feed-in rollers by the forward rotation of the pair of feed-in rollers.