Patent ID: 7641407

Claim:
Printer for printing information on a recording medium on which data is recordable, the printer comprising: a printing mechanism for printing information on the recording medium; a printer body containing the printing mechanism and having therein an opening through which printing expendables are exchangeably received within the printer body; a printer cover provided to be openable on the printer body so as to cover the opening, the printer cover having therein an inlet through which the recording medium is loaded into the printer body so as to appear partially outside the printer body; inhibiting means for inhibiting the printer cover from being manually opened when the recording medium has been loaded into the printer body; and engagement releasing means including an operation unit that is operated manually from outside the printer to release an engagement of the printer cover with the printer body performed by engaging means for engaging the printer cover with the printer body; wherein the inhibiting means comprising engagement release inhibiting means for inhibiting the operation of the engagement releasing means.