US 11,840,065 B2
Inkjet printer
Chihiro Sakai, Hamamatsu (JP)
Assigned to ROLAND DG CORPORATION, Shizuoka (JP)
Filed by Roland DG Corporation, Hamamatsu (JP)
Filed on Jan. 24, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/751,263.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-011108 (JP), filed on Jan. 25, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0238732 A1, Jul. 30, 2020
Int. Cl. B41J 11/00 (2006.01); B41J 15/04 (2006.01); B41J 11/057 (2006.01); B41J 11/70 (2006.01); B65H 35/04 (2006.01); B65H 29/20 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 11/057 (2013.01) [B41J 11/706 (2013.01); B65H 29/20 (2013.01); B65H 35/04 (2013.01); B65H 2404/182 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An inkjet printer comprising:
a platen that receives a recording medium thereon;
an ink head including a nozzle that discharges ink onto the recording medium placed on the platen and that moves in a main scanning direction;
a guide located on an upstream side of the platen in a secondary scanning direction perpendicular to the main scanning direction and that guides the recording medium toward the ink head, the guide including an upper surface tilted obliquely downward from a downstream side of the platen to the upstream side of the platen in the secondary scanning direction; and
a grit roller provided in the platen and that moves the recording medium placed on the platen in the secondary scanning direction; wherein
the guide includes at least one concave recess that is recessed from the upper surface of the guide;
the at least one concave recess indicates a position of the grit roller in the main scanning direction;
the at least one concave recess includes a first concave recess and a second concave recess;
the first concave recess indicates a first position at a first end of the grit roller in the main scanning direction; and
the second concave recess indicates a second position at a second end of the grit roller in the main scanning direction.