A first conveyor conveys a print medium in a conveyance direction from a holder toward a print head and in a return direction opposite to the conveyance direction. A tensioner applies back tension to the print medium between the holder and the first conveyor. A first motor drives the first conveyor. The controller controls the print head and the first motor. The controller performs a correction process of controlling the first motor to repeat a first conveyance and a second conveyance sequentially a plurality of times. The first conveyance is conveying the print medium in the conveyance direction in a state where the back tension is applied to the print medium by the tensioner. The second conveyance is conveying the print medium in the return direction in a state where the back tension is not applied to the print medium by the tensioner.

An image recording apparatus for recording an image on a sheet includes a recording section which records the image on the sheet in a transport passage for transporting the sheet in a transport direction and multiple plates which are spaced apart from each other in a widthwise direction. These multiple plates include a first type of plate and a second type of plate. Plates of a first type of plate are configured to overlap a sheet when viewed in a direction perpendicular to the transport direction and the widthwise direction, while plates of the second type of plate do not.

An attachment is attachable to and detachable from a sheet stacking board. The attachment includes an end fence configured to restrict a position of a trailing end of a sheet in a conveying direction. The end fence includes a facing surface facing the trailing end of the sheet. The facing surface includes an inclined surface inclined with respect to a vertical direction of a stacking surface on which the sheet is stacked, such that a higher part of the facing surface is located more upstream in the sheet conveying direction.

A holder assembly includes a base, a drive assembly coupled to the base, a motive source connected to the drive assembly, a vertical force applicator connected to the drive assembly along a connection edge thereof, and a gripping member coupled to the base, the gripping member having a contact surface coupled to a vacuum source, wherein the drive assembly has a first position with the flattening member engaged with the contact surface and a second position with the flattening member positioned away from the contact surface.

The anti-drop members 7l and 7r are provided to each of the air turn bars 6u and 6l, and the respective anti-drop peripheral surfaces 711 of the anti-drop members 7l and 7r adjoin the support peripheral surface 611 of each of the air turn bars 6u and 6l. In this configuration, on the occurrence of oblique traveling of the printing medium M, the printing medium M is deviated from the support peripheral surface 611 of each of the air turn bars 6u and 6l to the anti-drop peripheral surface 711 of the anti-drop member 7l or 7r. Specifically, the anti-drop peripheral surface 711 of each of the anti-drop members 7l and 7r allows the printing medium M to be supported while providing the clearance Δ from the front surface M1 of the printing medium M deviated by the oblique traveling.

A printing device is provided comprising a camera to capture an image of at least a portion of a print substrate; a controller to determine a location of a portion of a side edge of the print substrate from the image to determine a distance of the print substrate from a predetermined location; and an adjustment apparatus to adjust the entire substrate laterally, relative to the direction of transport of the print substrate, based on the determined location.

This disclosure relates generally to manufacturing systems and, more particularly, to systems and methods for printing on flexible materials. Various novel systems and methods of using the same are provided, including printing systems, roll dispensing system, and other processing systems.

A medium transporting apparatus includes a transport belt that has a loop shaped, a cling mechanism that causes the medium to cling to the transport belt, a rotation mechanism that transports the medium by rotating the transport belt, a plurality of detection units that detect an transport direction end of the medium, a controller that corrects a skew of the medium, and a stacker on which the medium transported by the transport belt is stacked, in which the plurality of detection units are arranged at positions that are on an upstream side of the transport belt in the first transport direction and that are different from each other in a width direction, and the controller corrects, according to a result of the detection by the detection units, the skew of the medium in a state of being cling to the transport belt.

An image forming apparatus includes a skew feed correcting portion, and a detection unit. A control unit selectively executes a first mode and a second mode by switching between the first mode and the second mode. In the first mode, based on the skew of a leading edge of the sheet and the position of the sheet in the width direction which are detected by the detection unit, the control unit is configured to correct the skew of the sheet to align the leading edge of the sheet with the width direction, correct the position of the sheet in the width direction using a first width direction position as a reference or using a second width direction position as a reference which is different from the first width direction position, and set an image formation position for forming the image with respect to the sheet which has been corrected.

A recording device has: a recording head configured to perform recording on a medium; a medium storage below the recording head configured to store the medium to be recoded; a supply path comprising a first curved supply path curved so as to be convex upward and transporting the medium fed out of the medium storage in a reversed direction via the first curved supply path; and a reversing path comprising a second curved path curved so as to be convex downward and transporting the recorded medium into a direction including a vertically upward component via second curved path from a direction including a vertically downward component; wherein the supply path joins the reversing path, and the first curved path and the second curved path overlap when viewed horizontally.