Printing apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10011131-B2
Application number	US-201715446111-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 1, 2017
Priority date	Mar 9, 2016
Publication date	Jul 3, 2018
Grant date	Jul 3, 2018

Abstract

A printing apparatus includes a print section to perform printing on a medium, a supply path to supply the medium to the print section, a correction roller pair to enable the medium transported on the supply path to strike the correction roller pair to correct skewing of the medium, an adjusting mechanism for adjusting a nip load applied to the correction roller pair, and a controller to control the adjusting mechanism based on print job information.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A printing apparatus comprising:
a print section configured to perform printing on a medium;
a supply path configured to supply the medium to the print section;
a correction roller pair configured to enable the medium transported on the supply path to strike the correction roller pair to correct skewing of the medium;
an adjusting mechanism for adjusting a nip load applied to the correction roller pair a controller configured to control the adjusting mechanism based on print job information; and
a switchback mechanism for switching back the medium having a first side and a second side, of which printing has been performed on the first side, and for transporting the medium to the supply path, wherein
between a first transport operation in which the first side is on the print section side and a second transport operation in which the medium is switched back by the switchback mechanism and the second side is on the print section side, the controller reduces a nip load in the second transport operation compared to a nip load in the first transport operation,
when a grammage of the medium is smaller than a threshold value, before the correction roller pair pinches the medium in the second transport operation, the controller switches the nip load to a second nip load that is smaller than the nip load in the first transport operation, and
the controller switches the nip load to a third nip load that is smaller than the second nip load in the second transport operation while the correction roller pair is pinching a margin area that extends from a leading edge of the medium to a print area on the first side.

2. The printing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the controller adjusts the nip load in accordance with the type of medium to next be printed after a trailing edge of the medium has passed through the correction roller pair in the second transport operation.

3. The printing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the correction roller pair includes a driving roller that includes at least one toothed roller and a driven roller that is driven by the driving roller, and
the driven roller comes into contact with one side of the medium and the driving roller comes into contact with the other side of the medium to pinch and transport the medium when the print section performs printing onto the one side of the medium.

Assignees

• Seiko Epson Corp

Inventors

• Tamura Yosaku
• Nakahata Akinobu

Classifications

• B41J13/025

  Special roller holding or lifting means, e.g. for temporarily raising one roller of a pair of nipping rollers for inserting printing material · CPC title

• B41J13/26 Primary

  Registering devices · CPC title

• B41J13/009

  Diverting sheets at a section where at least two sheet conveying paths converge, e.g. by a movable switching guide that blocks access to one conveying path and guides the sheet to another path, e.g. when a sheet conveying direction is reversed after printing on the front of the sheet has been finished and the sheet is guided to a sheet turning path for printing on the back · CPC title

• B41J13/28

  Front lays, stops, or gauges · CPC title

• B41J3/60 Primary

  for printing on both faces of the printing material · CPC title