US 12,263,675 B2
Printing apparatus
Hiroaki Takahashi, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Dec. 14, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/065,764.
Application 18/065,764 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2021/023168, filed on Jun. 18, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-117765 (JP), filed on Jul. 8, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0116151 A1, Apr. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. B41J 11/66 (2006.01); B41J 11/70 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 11/663 (2013.01) [B41J 11/70 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing apparatus comprising:
a holder configured to accommodate a plurality of sheets in a manner that the plurality of sheets is stacked to each other;
an image recorder configured to record an image on each of the plurality of sheets;
a receiver to which each of the plurality of sheets with the image recorded by the image recorder is to be discharged;
a cutter arranged on a receiver-side of the image recorder, the cutter being configured to cut each of the plurality of sheets at a cutting position, the receiver-side being a side of the image recorder at which the receiver is positioned;
a first conveyor configured to convey each of the plurality of sheets along a first conveying direction, the first conveying direction being a direction in which one of the plurality of sheets passes through the cutting position in a period in which recording of the image on the one of the plurality of sheets is performed by the image recorder; and
a controller, wherein
the controller is configured to execute:
a first conveying process of conveying the one of the plurality of sheets by the first conveyor along the first conveying direction to the image recorder;
an image recording process of recording the image on the one of the plurality of sheets by the image recorder;
a second conveying process of conveying the one of the plurality of sheets with the image recorded in a second conveying direction opposite to the first conveying direction by a predetermined amount, after the image recording process; and
a cutting process of cutting the one of the plurality of sheets by the cutter, after the second conveying process.