US 11,813,850 B2
Printing apparatus and printing system
Koji Oda, Shiojiri (JP)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Oct. 25, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/452,081.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-179517 (JP), filed on Oct. 27, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0126604 A1, Apr. 28, 2022
Int. Cl. B41J 11/00 (2006.01); B41J 11/58 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 11/0095 (2013.01) [B41J 11/58 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing apparatus comprising:
a recording section that performs recording on a medium;
a discharge tray on which the medium subjected to recording by the recording section is loaded;
a detector configured to detect the medium loaded on the discharge tray; and
an attachment section to which an optional device is attached, wherein
the detector is located at a first position in a state in which the optional device is not attached, and moves from the first position to a second position in accordance with the optional device being attached to the attachment section, and
the detector is configured to detect the medium in both the first position and the second position.