PRINTING APPARATUS

Japanese Patent JP2023121283

A

To make it possible, in a printing apparatus in which, after printing is performed on a label attached to a base sheet, a portion of the label and the base sheet are peeled off, to easily use the label a portion of which is peeled off.SOLUTION: Provided is a printing apparatus including: a printing head configured to perform printing on a front surface of a label of a label sheet obtained by attaching a back surface of the label to a base sheet; an airflow generating unit configured to generate an airflow; a first flow path that includes a one-side end coupled to the airflow generating unit and an another-side end coupled to a first discharge port and through which the airflow passes; and a peeling unit disposed downstream of the printing head in a transport direction of the label sheet and configured to partially peel the label from the base sheet, wherein when, of the label partially peeled from the base sheet by the peeling unit, at least a portion of a peeled portion peeled from the base sheet is at a position not overlapping with the peeling unit in plan view and a non-peeled portion not peeled from the base sheet is in a state of overlapping with the peeling unit in plan view, the first discharge port is disposed at such a position that the airflow outputted from the first discharge port hits the back surface of the peeled portion.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3

KANNO YUSUKE
MAEKAWA HIROYOSHI

JP2022024536A

August 31, 2023

February 21, 2022

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SEIKO EPSON CORP

B41J15/04; B41J3/36; B41J11/42; B41J29/00; B65H29/24; B65H41/00

Satoshi Nakai
Hiroki Matsuoka
Masayuki Imamura

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