US 11,792,340 B2
Printing device with user interface
Yasuo Koyauchi, Nagano (JP); and Seiji Kimura, Nagano (JP)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jul. 6, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/810,853.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-113509 (JP), filed on Jul. 8, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0010458 A1, Jan. 12, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/044 (2006.01); G09B 21/00 (2006.01); B41J 29/38 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 1/00493 (2013.01) [B41J 29/38 (2013.01); G06F 3/044 (2013.01); G09B 21/003 (2013.01); H04N 1/00384 (2013.01); H04N 1/00411 (2013.01); H04N 1/00496 (2013.01); H04N 1/00888 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing device that performs printing using a recording material, the printing device comprising:
a capacitive touch panel;
a home operation portion including a mechanical key for transitioning from a screen displayed on the capacitive touch panel to a basic screen including information on a remaining amount of the recording material; and
a power supply operation portion including a mechanical key for shifting a power state of the printing device, wherein
a panel installation surface provided with the capacitive touch panel is a surface different from a power supply operation portion installation surface provided with the power supply operation portion,
the power supply operation portion includes Braille representing a function of the mechanical key of the power supply operation portion, and
a step larger than a height of the Braille is present between the panel installation surface and the power supply operation portion installation surface.