The present invention relates to a printer having the same cover opening/closing direction as the paper cutting direction, and includes: a housing in which a receiving space is formed, on an upper part of which a discharging port through which paper is discharged is formed, and which includes a cover that is openable/closable frontward; a cutting unit that is provided in the receiving space and cuts the paper discharged through the discharging port in the opening/closing direction of the cover; and a discharging unit for discharging the paper from the housing.

A post-processing device includes a sheet transporting section that transports one or more sheets, a cutting section that cuts the sheet along a transporting direction of the sheet being transported by the sheet transporting section and a paper piece transporting section that transports a paper piece cut by the cutting section, and a transporting speed of the paper piece transporting section is set lower than a transporting speed of the sheet transporting section.

A printer includes a fixed blade and a movable blade that cut recording paper subjected to printing by a print head, and a movable blade slider including a projecting part provided on a surface of the movable blade slider. The movable blade is provided on the movable blade slider with the projecting part of the movable blade slider entering an opening provided in the movable blade.

A tape printer includes a guide portion guiding a label and having a first and a second guide portion. The first guide portion is arranged on a first end portion side with respect to a central line in a width direction of a feed path such that the portion does not include the central line in the width direction. The second guide portion is arranged on a second end portion side in the width direction such that the portion includes the central line. When a connecting portion connecting the first and the second guide portion is taken as a reference, the first guide portion is formed such that a height of the first guide portion substantially increases toward the first end portion side in the width direction. The second guide portion is formed such that a height of the second guide portion is substantially uniform in the width direction.

Media cutting assemblies are disclosed. An example media cutting assembly includes a stationary surface extending along a plane; a circular blade to traverse the stationary surface along the plane, a portion of the circular blade being in contact with the stationary surface; and a guide to direct media along a path that interests the plane, wherein the guide extends toward the plane at a non-perpendicular angle relative to the plane.

An apparatus for processing a flexible material (14) comprises: a first roller (5) extending along a main axis (A1); a second roller (6) extending along a longitudinal axis (A2), the first roller (5) and the second roller (6) being mutually co-operating to carry out an operation on the flexible material (14), an interspace (37) being defined between the first roller (5) and the second roller (6) though which the flexible material (14) can pass; a pressing device for pushing the first roller (5) and the second roller (6) one towards another; a position adjustment device for adjusting the relative position of the first roller (5) and the second roller (6), the position adjustment device being distinct from the pressing device.

An image forming system is described which is capable of assembling an output product which consists of sheets having uniform sheet widths by appropriately performing a trimming process even if the output product is made from a plurality of paper types. The image forming system consists of an image forming apparatus configured to form an image on a sheet; a finisher provided with a slit unit for trimming edges of sheets and capable of assembling an output product by joining the trimmed sheets, and a control unit for controlling the image forming apparatus and the finisher. When a book cover (standard paper type sheet) is supplied, the control unit trims the paper edges by a designated trimming width. Conversely, when a book body (non-standard paper type sheet) is supplied, the control unit trims the paper edges by a designated trimming width to which an offset amount is added.

The present invention relates to a printer having the same cover opening/closing direction as the paper cutting direction, and includes: a housing in which a receiving space is formed, on an upper part of which a discharging port through which paper is discharged is formed, and which includes a cover that is openable/closable frontward; a cutting unit that is provided in the receiving space and cuts the paper discharged through the discharging port in the opening/closing direction of the cover; and a discharging unit for discharging the paper from the housing.

A rotary cutter mechanism includes a rotary blade which is rotatably provided around a shaft center and which includes a first cutting edge portion, a counter blade which is provided to face a locus drawn by the first cutting edge portion of the rotating rotary blade and which includes a second cutting edge portion, and a protruding member which is provided on the edge portion of the rotary blade on the first direction side and which protrudes from the rotary blade toward a rotation direction side, the rotation direction side being a side on which the rotary blade faces the object to be cut in a case where the object to be cut is cut between the first cutting edge portion and the second cutting edge portion.

To stabilize a shape of a cut portion regardless of characteristics of a medium. The medium cutting method includes a first thrusting process of thrusting a cutter blade into a medium 2 so as to penetrate the medium 2, and a first cutting process of relatively moving the cutter blade with respect to the medium 2 in a longitudinal direction of the medium 2 and a width direction of the medium 2 with a first thrusting spot SP2 as a starting point, which is a spot thrust by the cutter blade in the first thrusting process, to cut the medium 2 in a direction inclined with respect to the width direction of the medium 2.