A recording apparatus includes a transport unit capable of transporting a medium, a detection unit capable of detecting a transport direction in which the transport unit transports the medium, a recording unit capable of performing recording on the medium transported by the transport unit, and a plurality of rotating bodies provided in an intersecting direction that intersects the transport direction. Each rotating body is capable of contacting a side surface of the medium opposite to a recording surface of the medium on which recording is performed by the recording unit and has a rotation shaft that extends in the intersecting direction. The apparatus further includes a control unit that controls rotation speed of each rotating body individually on the basis of a result of detection by the detection unit.

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 image forming apparatus includes: sheet feed trays on which sheets are placed; a transferrer that transfers an image formed by an image forming part onto a sheet at a transfer position; conveyance roller pairs provided along conveyance paths from the sheet feed trays to the transfer position and that conveys a fed sheet; a conveyance position detector that detects a conveyance position of a conveyed sheet in a width direction; a sheet position adjuster that performs adjustment of the conveyance position of the sheet in the width direction by using an amount of displacement; and a hardware processor that determines, on the basis of a sheet feed tray that is to be used among the sheet feed trays and a sheet length of a sheet that is to be fed from the sheet feed tray, whether or not the adjustment of the conveyance position is to be performed.

A base material processing apparatus detects the amount of widthwise misregistration of a base material in each detection position (Po, and Pa to Pd) lying on a transport path, and then calculates a difference between a detection value in the reference position (Po) and a detection value in each of the remaining detection positions (Pa to Pd) as a meandering amount. Subsequently, the base material processing apparatus determines coefficients obtained when a variation with time in each meandering amount is applied to a predetermined model function, and thereafter calculates coefficients of the model function predicted as the meandering of the base material in each processing position (P1 to P4), based on the determined coefficients and a positional relationship between the reference position (Po), the remaining detection positions (Pa to Pd) and the processing positions (P1 to P4). This achieves the prediction of the meandering of the base material in the processing positions (P1 to P4) with accuracy without any detector disposed in the processing positions (P1 to P4).

A sheet conveying device, which is incorporated in an image forming apparatus, includes a first detector to detect an angle deviation of a recording medium to a sheet conveying direction, a second detector to detect a lateral shift of the recording medium to a width direction, a third detector to detect at least one of the angle deviation and the lateral shift after correction of the angle deviation detected by the first detector and the lateral shift detected by the second detector, and a rotary body to perform a primary movement by (1) rotating in the sheet conveying direction and returning to a reference position and by (2) moving in the width direction and returning to the reference position, and a secondary movement by performing at least one of (1) and (2) after the primary movement.

An image forming apparatus includes a conveying guide and a sheet member. The conveying guide is provided in a joining section and guides a sheet to a conveying roller pair along a main conveying path. The sheet member is provided in the joining section and configured to form a lower conveying path with the conveying guide and to guide the sheet from an upper conveying path toward the main conveying path. The conveying guide has a convex guide part and planer guide parts. The convex guide is provided at a center portion and projects toward the sheet member. The planer guide parts are provided on both sides of the convex guide part. A first gap formed between the convex guide part and the sheet member is narrower than a second gap formed between the planer guide part and the sheet member.

Medium handling apparatuses and methods of media handling, both for use in printing devices, are disclosed herein. An example of a medium handling apparatus includes a first transport roller to convey a medium and a first drive mechanism to rotate the first transport roller at a first rate. This example of the medium handling apparatus additionally includes a second transport roller to convey the medium and a second drive mechanism to rotate the second transport roller at a second rate. This example of the medium handling apparatus further includes a coupling assembly to disengage the second transport roller from the second drive mechanism to allow the medium to rotate the second transport roller at the first rate.

The separator production method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes a coated article winding off step of winding off, from a core, a separator original sheet which has been taken up in a coated article taking up step of winding the separator original sheet on an outer peripheral surface of the core while oscillating the core in a rotation axis direction, and the core is oscillated in the rotation axis direction in the coated article winding off step.

An object of the present invention is to correct the deviation of a sheet in the width direction occurring on a conveyance path from a sheet correction mechanism (4) to a discharge tray. A sheet shift portion (41, 43, 44) moves a sheet in the width direction. A conveying position detecting portion (45, 46, 47) detects the position of the sheet in the width direction. A discharge position detecting portion (54, 8a) detects a discharge position of the sheet, in the width direction, discharged onto a discharge tray (33) in a sheet discharge portion (31). A control portion (8b) derives an amount of deviation between the discharge position and a discharge reference position based on a detection result of the discharge position detecting portion (54, 8a). Furthermore, the control portion (8b) corrects a conveying position of the sheet in a sheet conveying portion according to the amount of deviation.

Web-wound rolls with a web edge treatment with microspheres and processes to make the same are provided. The web-wound rolls include a substrate web having at least two web edges. One or more stripes of coated material are disposed adjacent to one or both of the web edges. The substrate web is wound upon itself in multiple revolutions about a central core, and each revolution is held substantially separate from the next by the one or more stripes of coated material.