Patent ID: 8272797

Claim:
A printer comprising: a conveying section that conveys paper, the paper having a width and a length orthogonal to the width, the paper having a printing area and a non-printing area provided thereon next to each other in a direction of the length, and the paper being conveyed in the direction of the length; a cutter that cuts the paper conveyed thereto such as to separate the printing area and the non-printing area; a fragment receiving section provided below the cutter, the fragment receiving section receiving the non-printing area cut off as a fragment by the cutter and falling into the fragment receiving section; a printed matter receiving section provided below the cutter, the printed matter receiving section receiving the printing area cut off as a piece of printed matter by the cutter and falling into the printed matter receiving section; and an output tray, wherein, the fragment receiving section includes a rocking plate provided at a position below a cutting position where the cutter cuts the paper, the rocking plate being rockable about an axis parallel to a direction of the width of the paper, the fragment receiving section, the printed matter receiving section, and the rocking plate are provided on the output tray, the rocking plate is rocked by a rocking mechanism between (i) a first rocking position, in which an upper end of the rocking plate is distal from the cutting position so as to allow the fragment to fall into the fragment receiving section, and (ii) a second rocking position, in which the upper end of the rocking plate is proximal to the cutting position so as to guide the piece of printed matter into the printed matter receiving section on the output tray, the fragment receiving section includes a bottom plate residing below the cutting position, and the rocking plate includes a first plate and a second plate that is arranged such that when the rocking plate is at the first rocking position, the second plate is positioned such as to receive the fragment cut off by the cutter and falling thereonto, the bottom plate of the fragment receiving section including the second plate.