Patent ID: 7618139

Claim:
A printer, comprising: a print head including nozzles that eject ink on a recording medium sheet; first and second rollers provided on a sheet feeding path for feeding said sheet therealong; a platen provided between said first and second rollers for guiding said sheet on said sheet feeding path, said first roller being located on an upstream side of said platen and said second roller being located on a downstream side of said platen; a guide roller disposed between said nozzles and said second roller on said feeding path, a rotation axis of said guide roller being fixed with respect to said platen; a pinch roller elastically biased towards said second roller to press said sheet against said second roller; and an intermediate roller provided between said nozzles and said second roller, said intermediate roller being elastically biased toward said guide roller to press said sheet against said guide roller, said intermediate roller being rotated with a peripheral velocity higher than that of said first roller, said intermediate roller being formed such that a slip occurs between said intermediate roller and said sheet while said sheet is being fed by said first roller, wherein the biased pinch roller and the fixed guide roller are disposed to come in contact with a same printed plane of the sheet such that a height of the biased pinch roller increases at a distance corresponding to a thickness of the sheet, and the height of the biased pinch roller with respect to the fixed guide roller defines an angle of the sheet toward the platen corresponding to the thickness of the sheet.