US 12,134,264 B2
Printer and method of controlling the same
Shunichi Wakasa, Chikuma (JP); Toshiyuki Ito, Nagawa-machi (JP); and Akihiko Tsuchiya, Tomi (JP)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Oct. 11, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/045,511.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-167891 (JP), filed on Oct. 13, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0111450 A1, Apr. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. B41J 11/66 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 11/663 (2013.01) 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printer comprising:
a transport roller for transporting recording paper in a transport direction;
a head for printing on the recording paper;
a cutter disposed downstream of the head in the transport direction and configured to cut the recording paper;
a first sensor disposed downstream of the cutter in the transport direction and configured to detect the recording paper;
a communication section configured to receive print data; and
a controller, wherein
the controller detects, by the first sensor, the recording paper at least at startup,
when the recording paper is detected, the controller causes the transport roller to transport the recording paper and causes the cutter to cut the recording paper,
whereas when the recording paper is not detected, the controller causes the transport roller not to transport the recording paper and causes the cutter not to cut the recording paper, and
when the communication section receives the print data, the controller causes the head to print on the recording paper.