Patent ID: 7810921

Claim:
A printing apparatus comprising: a plurality of trains of printing units each of which has print heads arranged along a direction in which a continuous sheet of paper travels, said plurality of printing unit trains being arranged parallel to one another and mutually shifted in position in a direction of a width of the continuous sheet of paper; a dryer section in which a plurality of sections of the continuous sheet of paper from said plurality of printing unit trains travel as mutually shifted in position in the direction of the width of the continuous sheet of paper; a cooling roller means disposed downstream of said dryer section and having a cooling roller on which the plurality sections of the continuous sheet of paper from said dryer section are capable of being wound as mutually shifted in position in the direction of the width of the continuous sheet of paper; and a turnover means disposed between said cooling roller means and said printing unit trains for shifting the continuous sheet of paper in position in the direction of width of the continuous sheet of paper while reversing the direction in which the continuous sheet of paper travels.