US 11,813,851 B2
Printing apparatus and method for controlling printing apparatus
Yuki Inoue, Shiojiri (JP)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Aug. 20, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/445,506.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-140705 (JP), filed on Aug. 24, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0055384 A1, Feb. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. B41J 11/42 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 11/42 (2013.01) 2 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing apparatus, comprising:
a printing head configured to discharge ink onto a recording medium to form an image;
a platen including a support surface that supports the recording medium; and
a recording medium holding portion located at a position that is downstream of the printing head in a transport direction of the recording medium and faces the support surface, the recording medium holding portion being configured to hold a plurality of star wheels configured to hold the recording medium toward the support surface in a direction perpendicular to the support surface, wherein,
in a case in which a maximum value of a height of the recording medium from the support surface in the direction perpendicular to the support surface is less than 2.2 mm when the recording medium passes between the support surface and the recording medium holding portion, a load of one of the star wheels for holding the recording medium is equal to or less than 4.5 gf, where the maximum value is a maximum value of a height of the recording medium from the support surface in the direction perpendicular to the support surface, the height being a height of the recording medium from the support surface provided that the recording medium holding portion is absent.