US 12,410,031 B2
Printing apparatus
Isao Kobayashi, Nagoya (JP); and Takashi Suzuki, Toyota (JP)
Assigned to Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Mar. 29, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/192,040.
Application 18/192,040 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2021/034983, filed on Sep. 24, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-164975 (JP), filed on Sep. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0234803 A1, Jul. 27, 2023
Int. Cl. B65H 35/00 (2006.01); B41J 11/66 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 35/0093 (2013.01) [B65H 35/008 (2013.01); B41J 11/663 (2013.01); B41J 2203/01 (2020.08); B65H 2511/11 (2013.01); B65H 2801/03 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing apparatus comprising:
a holder configured to accommodate a printing medium;
a conveyor configured to take the printing medium from the holder and configured to convey the printing medium along a conveying direction;
a printer configured to perform printing on the printing medium conveyed by the conveyor;
a cutter configured to cut the printing medium conveyed by the conveyor;
a first detector which is provided upstream in the conveying direction of the cutter, and which is configured to detect a front end and a rear end of the printing medium conveyed by the conveyor; and
a controller, wherein:
a distance in the conveying direction between the first detector and the cutter is shorter than a length in the conveying direction of one of media generated by dividing the printing medium into n-pieces of media (n is an integer not smaller than 2); and
the controller is configured to:
calculate a length in the conveying direction of the printing medium by using a result of a detecting of the front end and the rear end of the printing medium by the first detector, and set a cutting position of the printing medium so that the printing medium is divided into the n-pieces of media in the conveying direction; and
cause the cutter to cut the printing medium at the set cutting position.