US 11,712,910 B2
Printing apparatus
Tomohito Abe, Kanagawa (JP); Yasuyuki Asai, Tokyo (JP); Hiromasa Yoneyama, Kanagawa (JP); Ryohei Maruyama, Kanagawa (JP); Itaru Wada, Kanagawa (JP); Yoshiaki Suzuki, Chiba (JP); Tsutomu Obata, Tokyo (JP); and Noriyuki Aoki, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Dec. 14, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/120,645.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-239284 (JP), filed on Dec. 27, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0197594 A1, Jul. 1, 2021
Int. Cl. B65H 31/20 (2006.01); B41J 13/00 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 13/0009 (2013.01) 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing apparatus comprising:
a conveyance unit configured to convey a sheet in a conveyance direction;
a printing unit including a printhead that performs printing on a sheet conveyed by the conveyance unit, and configured to move the printhead in a sheet widthwise direction intersecting the conveyance direction;
a platen provided so as to face the printhead, and configured to support a sheet on which the printhead performs printing;
a detection unit mounted on the printing unit, and configured (a) to detect a distance to a sheet supported by the platen and (b) to be moved in the sheet widthwise direction by the printing unit;
a support portion provided downstream of the printing unit in the conveyance direction, changeable between (a) a first posture at which the support portion forms a conveyance surface for a sheet and (b) a second posture, which is different from the first posture, at which the support portion protrudes from the conveyance surface, the support portion being capable of supporting a sheet from below; and
a determination unit configured to determine, based on a detection result of the detection unit, whether the support portion is at the first posture or the second posture,
wherein the support portion in the first posture supports a sheet with a first surface, and the support portion in the second posture supports a sheet with a second surface different from the first surface.