Patent ID: 7976232

Claim:
A printer configured to selectively feed a cut sheet and a continuous sheet and to enable printing, comprising: a platen and a print head disposed to be opposite to each other; a sheet guide surface to guide both the cut sheet and the continuous sheet along an outer peripheral surface of the platen; a paper path switching shaft capable of switching a sheet transport path according to the fed cut sheet of the fed continuous sheet by rotating; a sheet detection sensor; a first pinch roller which is brought into press contact with an outer peripheral surface portion of the platen on an upstream side of the sheet detection sensor in a sheet transport direction at a time of feeding of the cut sheet, and is, at a time of feeding of the continuous sheet, separated from the outer peripheral surface portion of the platen through the paper path switching shaft and is retracted to an outside of the sheet transport path; a first pinch roller, wherein the rotation of the paper path switching shaft causes a linear translation of the first pinch roller holder, holder configured to support the first pinch roller; a second pinch roller which is brought into press contact with an outer peripheral surface portion of the platen on a downstream side of the sheet detection sensor in a sheet transport direction at the time of feeding of the cut sheet, and is, at the time of feeding of the continuous sheet, brought into press contact with the outer peripheral surface portion of the platen by a press contact force weaker than that at the time of feeding of the cut sheet; and a sheet guide member which is disposed in a second pinch roller holder to support the second pinch roller, a tip end of which is positioned upstream of the sheet detection sensor in the sheet transport direction, and is capable of guiding the continuous sheet to the second pinch roller even in a state where the first pinch roller is retracted to the outside of the sheet transport path at the time of feeding of the continuous sheet.