US 12,030,324 B2
Printing apparatus
Ryohei Kinoshita, Matsumoto (JP); and Takeshi Tokuda, Shiojiri (JP)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jun. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/809,490.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-108068 (JP), filed on Jun. 29, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0410603 A1, Dec. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. B41J 29/13 (2006.01); B41J 15/04 (2006.01); G03G 21/16 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 29/13 (2013.01) [B41J 15/044 (2013.01); G03G 21/1633 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing apparatus comprising:
a rolled-paper accommodation unit configured to accommodate rolled paper;
a printing unit that performs printing on recording paper pulled out from the rolled paper;
a control unit configured to control the printing unit;
an apparatus case in which the rolled-paper accommodation unit and the control unit are provided, the apparatus case having a first edge forming a discharge opening through which the recording paper on which the printing unit performed printing is discharged; and
an opening/closing cover opening or closing the rolled-paper accommodation unit and having a second edge that faces the first edge to form the discharge opening when the opening/closing cover closes the rolled-paper accommodation unit, wherein
the rolled-paper accommodation unit is provided between the first edge of the apparatus case and the control unit.