US 11,838,461 B2
Printing device with user interface
Yasuo Koyauchi, Nagano (JP); and Seiji Kimura, Nagano (JP)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jul. 6, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/810,848.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-113507 (JP), filed on Jul. 8, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0011638 A1, Jan. 12, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 1/04 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/044 (2006.01); G09B 21/00 (2006.01); B41J 29/393 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 1/00493 (2013.01) [B41J 29/393 (2013.01); G06F 3/044 (2013.01); G09B 21/003 (2013.01); H04N 1/00384 (2013.01); H04N 1/00411 (2013.01); H04N 1/00496 (2013.01); H04N 1/00888 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing device that performs printing using a recording material, the printing device comprising:
a capacitive touch panel; and
a transport operation portion including a mechanical key for operating a transport position of a print medium for printing, wherein
a panel installation surface provided with the capacitive touch panel is a surface different from a transport operation portion installation surface provided with the transport operation portion, and
a step larger than a stroke of the mechanical key of the transport operation portion is present between the panel installation surface and the transport operation portion installation surface.
 
11. A printing device that performs printing using a recording material, the printing device comprising:
a capacitive touch panel; and
a transport operation portion including a mechanical key for operating a transport position of a print medium for printing, wherein
a panel installation surface provided with the capacitive touch panel is a surface different from a transport operation portion installation surface provided with the transport operation portion,
the transport operation portion includes Braille representing a function of the mechanical key of the transport operation portion, and
a step larger than a height of the Braille is present between the panel installation surface and the transport operation portion installation surface.
 
12. A printing device that performs printing using a recording material, the printing device comprising:
a capacitive touch panel; and
a transport operation portion including a mechanical key for operating a transport position of a print medium for printing, wherein
a panel installation surface provided with the capacitive touch panel is a surface different from a transport operation portion installation surface provided with the transport operation portion, and
a step between the panel installation surface and the transport operation portion installation surface in a central region is present between the capacitive touch panel and the transport operation portion.
 
14. A printing device that performs printing using a recording material, the printing device comprising: a capacitive touch panel; and a transport operation portion including a mechanical key for operating a transport position of a print medium for printing, wherein a panel installation surface provided with the capacitive touch panel is a surface different from a transport operation portion installation surface provided with the transport operation portion, a screen displayed on the capacitive touch panel includes a return operation portion including a soft key for transitioning from the displayed screen to an original screen, and an in-screen operation portion including a soft key other than the return operation portion, and the transport operation portion and the return operation portion sandwich the in-screen operation portion.