Title:
BELT TYPE MEDIUM SUPPORT DEVICE FOR PRINTER AND METHOD OF SUPPORTING SHEET OF PRINTING MEDIUM
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2001138586
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:
To achieve a compact device and to improve printing quality by preventing change in a relative position between a paper and a print head.
There is disclosed a device for supporting a printing medium in a printer. The device comprises a platen 30 having a port 42 for transferring a vacuum pressure to its support face 28, a belt 20 having a hole 52 and a sheet of a printing medium 36 which is attached thereto so as to move on the support face of the platen 30, and a belt support means that supports the belt 20 at the upper portion of the support face of the platen 30 and transfers a vacuum pressure from the support face of the platen 30 through the hole 52 of the belt 20.
Inventors:
WOTTON GEOFF
RASMUSSEN STEVE O
RHODES JOHN D
RASMUSSEN STEVE O
RHODES JOHN D
Application Number:
JP2000304349A
Publication Date:
May 22, 2001
Filing Date:
October 04, 2000
Export Citation:
Assignee:
HEWLETT PACKARD CO
International Classes:
B41J2/01; B41J11/00; B41J11/02; B41J11/06; B65H5/22; (IPC1-7): B41J11/02; B41J2/01; B65H5/22
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Okuyama Shoichi (2 outside)