PRINTING APPARATUS

Organization Name

canon kabushiki kaisha

Inventor(s)

Midori Yasuda of Kawasaki-shi JP

Yuki Kamio of Kawasaki-shi JP

Masashi Kamada of Kawasaki-shi JP

Masato Eiyama of Yokohama-shi JP

Yuki Igarashi of Tokyo JP

Masashi Negishi of Kawasaki-shi JP

Ryoya Shinjo of Kawasaki-shi JP

Ryo Kobayashi of Kawasaki-shi JP

Tomohiro Suzuki of Kawasaki-shi JP

PRINTING APPARATUS

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250001771 titled 'PRINTING APPARATUS

Original Abstract Submitted

a roll sheet, in which a continuous sheet is wound in a roll form, is caused to rotate in a forward direction to supply the sheet to a printing unit. first and second sensors are arranged at positions facing an outer circumferential surface of the roll sheet and deviated in an axis line direction of the roll sheet. outputs of the first and second sensors are changed in accordance with a distance to a sheet of the roll sheet. a rotation direction of the roll sheet is switched from a forward direction to a reverse direction on the basis of the outputs of the first and second sensors while the roll sheet is being rotated in the reverse direction.