A printing apparatus that prints on a sheet supplied from a rolled sheet and takes up the sheet in a roll shape, includes: a splice detection unit configured to detect a splice portion of the sheet, a conveyance unit configured to convey the sheet, a meandering correction unit including a sensor unit configured to detect a sheet end portion of the sheet in a width direction of the sheet on a downstream side of the splice detection unit and configured to correct meandering of the sheet based on detection of the sheet end portion by the sensor unit, and a control unit configured to control the meandering correction unit based on a relationship between a position of the splice portion and a detection area of the sensor unit.

Various embodiments illustrated herein disclose a printing apparatus comprising a media supply spool configured to supply print media along a media path. The printing apparatus further comprises a first media sensor positioned in a first plane in the printing apparatus. Further, the printing apparatus comprises a second media sensor positioned in a second plane in the printing apparatus. Additionally, the printing apparatus comprises a first media guide defining a section of the media path, wherein extremities of the first media guide are positioned to be at a negative offset from the second plane.

Inkjet printer (1) operable to print a print substrate made of textile, paper or plastic material, or the like, and provided with a sliding transfer surface (10) to feed the print substrate (2) in a feed direction (9); a printing device (17) arranged above the transfer surface (10) to define, on the transfer surface (10), a printing station (19); suction means (20) arranged below the transfer surface (10) to maintain the print substrate adhering to and stationary with respect to the transfer surface (10) during sliding; and an adjustment assembly to adjust planarity of the transfer surface (10).

A printing apparatus includes: a conveyor configured to convey a web print medium with holes arranged at a predetermined pitch in a conveyance direction; a printer configured to perform printing on the web print medium conveyed by the conveyor; a detector configured to detect the holes; and a controller. The controller is configured to drive the printer to start printing on the web print medium based on a timing at which a count value of the holes detected by the detector from start of conveyance of the web print medium by the conveyor reaches a setting value of a number of the holes located from the detector to a print start reference position on the web print medium at the start of conveyance of the web print medium by the conveyor.

A controller, upon a web roll being set on a web roll support shaft: drives a brake to apply a braking force of a first value to the web roll support shaft, the first value being a value at which the web roll does not rotate when a predetermined tension is applied to a web, and drives a conveyance motor to generate a drive force for the predetermined tension; drives the brake with the drive force generated to gradually reduce the braking force from the first value while determining whether rotation of a conveyance roller starts; and upon determining that the rotation of the conveyance roller starts, determines a second value of the braking force as an initial value of the braking force in conveyance of the web for printing, the second value being a value at which the rotation of the conveyance roller starts.

A recording apparatus includes a belt conveyor unit that can be switched between a first state in which at least a portion of the belt outer surface of a conveyor belt is located at a recording position at which a line head performs recording and a second state in which the belt outer surface is located more distant than the recording position from the line head. The recording apparatus also includes a wiping device that is in contact with the belt outer surface and wipes the belt outer surface. The belt conveyor unit is switched from the second state to the first state after carrying out of a preliminary operation in which the conveyor belt is moved over a predetermined distance in a reverse direction opposite to a normal direction in which the conveyor belt transports a sheet.

Disclosed is a recording apparatus for conveying a recording sheet such as a long sheet with high precision without decreasing productivity even if a back tension occurs during conveyance of the recording sheet. The recording apparatus (100) sets a first acceleration period in which the conveying speed is increased up to a first predetermined speed before a leading end of the roll paper (101) reaches a detecting position of the leading end detecting sensor (129) with the roll paper (101) being nipped by the upstream side nip roller (125) and the conveying belt (121). Further, the recording apparatus (100) sets a first constant speed period in which the conveying speed is kept constant at the first predetermined speed before the leading end of the roll paper (101) reaches the detecting position until the leading end of the roll paper (101) is nipped by the downstream side nip roller (126) and the conveying belt (121). Furthermore, the recording apparatus (100) sets a second acceleration period in which the conveying speed is increased up to a second predetermined speed before the recording by the recording head (130) is started after the leading end of the roll paper (101) is nipped by the downstream side nip roller (126) and the conveying belt (121).

A magnetic ink reader includes a conveyance mechanism for a sheet, a magnetizing mechanism configured to magnetize magnetic ink on the sheet and including a magnet having a first side of a first magnetic polarity, that is arranged to face a first surface of the sheet, and a yoke that is formed of a soft magnetic material and includes a base portion attached directly to a second side of the magnet, and an extension portion extending from the base portion such that an end surface of the extension portion faces a second surface of the sheet, and a magnetic detection head along the conveyance path and configured to detect magnetism of the magnetized magnetic ink on the sheet. A first distance between the conveyance path and the first side of the magnet is less than a second distance between the conveyance path and the end surface of the yoke.

A printing device includes a printing apparatus that includes a transport unit including a roller pair that nips and transports a medium, a printing unit that prints on the medium and a first sensor that detects the medium or a mark at a position downstream of the roller pair. The printing device also includes a first motor capable of driving the roller pair to a non-nipping state and to a nipping state, and a controller that controls the transport unit and the first motor so as to perform an assistance operation to assist setting of the medium. The assistance operation performed by the controller. When the first sensor detects the medium or the mark, the controller causes the medium to be nipped by the roller pair, and a skew correction operation in which the medium is transported and reverse transported is performed.

Disclosed is a printer that performs inkjet printing, and the printer includes an inkjet head and a medium transport unit. In this printer, the medium transport unit has an electrostatic adsorption belt which is an adsorption member that electrostatically adsorbs a medium and a charging member that charges at least a portion of the electrostatic adsorption belt. The charging member has a unipolar charging section that charges a head facing region of the electrostatic adsorption belt and a bipolar charging section that charges a non-facing region that is at least a portion of a portion other than the head facing region of the electrostatic adsorption belt. The unipolar charging section charges the head facing region such that a region facing the inkjet head on a surface of the medium is charged to either a positive or a negative polarity, and the bipolar charging section bipolarly charges the non-facing region.