PURPOSE: To reduce the quantity of ink mist accumulated at the tip of a paper guide and prevent heavy contamination with an ink, by a method wherein a tip part of a paper guide for rectilinearly feeding a recording paper is formed in an acute angle shape, in an ink jet printer.
CONSTITUTION: When the recording paper is clamped between rollers 17a, 17b, it is fed in the direction of an arrow A, is passed along the paper guide 16, and because of the strength of the paper 16 itself, the paper 16 is advanced between rollers 18a, 18b without being bent. Therefore, recording can be conducted from the leading end of the paper 6. Although ink mists are accumulated at the tip 16a of the paper guide 16 when an ink jetted from an ink-jetting head 10 travels toward a roller 15 by being deflected, since the tip 16a of the guide 16 is formed in a knife edge form and the upper surface thereof is mirror surface finished, the particle diameter of the ink mists accumulated at the tip 16a is so small that the ink particulates do not form visible smudges even when they are transferred onto the paper 6.
JINNAI KOUICHIROU
ITOU TADASHI
KOIKE TAKANAO
MURAI TOSHIHARU
FUKAZAWA TAKAO
ISHIMA KAZUMI
