Patent ID: 7819520

Claim:
A printer comprising: a body casing; a first storage configured to store a print medium, wherein the first storage is housed in the body casing; a second storage configured to store a print medium, wherein the first storage and the second storage are aligned along a first direction in a plane view from an upper side of the printer, and the second storage is housed in the body casing; a first transferring device that automatically transfers the print medium stored in the first storage to the second storage in the first direction, wherein the first transferring device is housed in the body casing; a printing device, wherein the second storage and the printing device are aligned along a second direction in the plane view from the upper side of the printer, and the second direction is substantially perpendicular to the first direction in the plane view from the upper side of the printer, wherein the printing device is housed in the body casing; a feeding device that feeds the print medium stored in the second storage to the printing device, wherein the feeding device is housed in the body casing, wherein the printing device prints on the print medium fed from the second storage by the feeding device; a third storage configured to store a print medium that has been printed by the printing device, wherein the third storage is housed in the body casing, wherein the second storage, the printing device, and the third storage are aligned along the second direction in the plane view from the upper side of the printer, and the printing device is located between the second storage and the third storage; a fourth storage configured to store a print medium, wherein the third storage and the fourth storage are aligned along the first direction in the plane view from the upper side of the printer, and the fourth storage is housed in the body casing; and a second transferring device that automatically transfers the print medium stored in the third storage to the fourth storage in an opposite direction to the first direction, wherein the second transferring device is housed in the body casing, and the fourth storage stores the print medium transferred from the third storage by the second transferring device.