US 11,697,297 B2
Printing apparatus
Naoto Hayakawa, Matsumoto (JP); Keisuke Yamaya, Shiojiri (JP); Keishi Sawada, Shiojiri (JP); and Kenichi Tanioka, Matsumoto (JP)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jan. 27, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/160,033.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-014622 (JP), filed on Jan. 31, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0237487 A1, Aug. 5, 2021
Int. Cl. B41J 11/70 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 11/70 (2013.01) 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing apparatus comprising:
a printing unit configured to perform printing on a medium;
a cutting unit configured to cut the medium downstream of the printing unit in a transport path through which the medium is transported; and
an accommodating unit disposed below the cutting unit and configured to accommodate cutting waste generated when the medium is cut by the cutting unit, wherein
the cutting unit is configured to cut the medium at a first boundary between a downstream margin that is an area between a downstream end of the medium and a print area on which printing is performed by the printing unit, and the print area, and is configured to cut the medium at a second boundary between an upstream margin that is an area between an upstream end of the medium and the print area, and the print area,
gaps communicating with the accommodating unit are formed upstream and downstream of a position in which the medium is cut by the cutting unit in the transport path, and
the cutting unit cuts the medium at the first boundary between the downstream margin and the print area and the second boundary between the upstream margin and the print area in a second surface that is different from a first surface of the medium on which printing was performed by the printing unit.