Patent ID: 8029203

Claim:
A printing device comprising; a recording paper roll; a conveyer roller pair that holds therebetween a sheet paper drawn out from the recording paper roll to feed the sheet paper forward or backward; a feeding roller pair disposed between said recording paper roll and said conveyer roller pair and that draws out the recording paper from the recording paper roll and feeds it to the conveyer roller pair; and a color recording unit disposed downstream of said conveyer roller pair in the direction of conveyance of said recording paper that records an image in a plurality of colors on the recording paper that is being moved backward along the direction of conveyance, wherein a guide unit is disposed between said feeding roller pair and said conveyer roller pair and bends and guides the recording paper in a substantially arc-shape, wherein an angle defined at an intersection between i) an extension of direction of feed of the recording paper from said feeding roller pair and ii) an extension of direction of conveyance of the recording paper from said conveyer roller pair to said color recording unit is an angle smaller than 90 degrees, a reservation space is provided outside of the arc-shaped recording paper guiding path, which reservation space accommodates a bight portion of the recording paper therein, said guide unit includes a pivotally supported movable guide member; and said reservation space is selectively openable and closable by the pivotal movement of said movable guide member.