Patent ID: 8887403

Claim:
A medium processing device which carries out at least two kinds of process on a medium with a first processing unit and a second processing unit, comprising: a carriage including: a first holding unit which holds the first processing unit; a second holding unit which holds the second processing unit; and a distance change unit which, in a condition in which the first holding unit is holding the first processing unit and the second holding unit is holding the second processing unit, reduces and increases the distance between one processing unit and the medium in comparison with the distance between the other processing unit and the medium, wherein the distance change unit causes both the first processing unit and the second processing unit to rotationally move, and the rotational movement is a movement which takes the second processing unit farther from the medium when the first processing unit comes closer to the medium, and takes the first processing unit farther from the medium when the second processing unit comes closer to the medium.