Patent ID: 8840329

Claim:
A conveyance device comprising: a drive roller that feeds a sheet medium from a media roll having the sheet medium wound in a roll that can rotate on a center axis of the roll; a drive roller that supplies the sheet medium from the media roll; a roll rotating unit that rotates the media roll and rewinds the supplied sheet medium; first and second brake devices that apply a load to rotation of the media roll and are disposed to the roll rotating unit; wherein a third brake device that is disposed to the drive roller and applies a load to rotation of the drive roller; the first brake device is controlled to apply the load when the conveyance device is not energized; the first and second brake devices do not apply the load during acceleration of conveyance speed when supplying the sheet medium; and the first brake device applies the load and the second brake device does not apply the load at a specific time in a transition from acceleration of the conveyance speed to a constant speed when supplying the sheet medium.