To change a transportation route of a printed matter in a simple mechanism and prevent paper jam.

A first supply belt 2, together with a second supply belt 3, transports a sheet 4 held between them. A rotatable sheet route changing rope 12 changes a route of the sheet 4 to one of a first transportation route 10 and a second transportation route 11. The first transportation belt 7 is guided around a first route changing roller 9, and defines the first transportation route 10, together with the first supply belt 2. A second transportation belt 6 is guided around a second route changing roller 8 placed displacedly vertically and horizontally to the first route changing roller 9, and defines the second transportation route 11 of the sheet 4, together with a second supply belt 3.