JP2003285487A - Carrier for recording medium and inkjet recorder - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a carrier for recording medium and an ink jet recorder in which recording image quality can be enhanced by shortening the time of recording work especially when recording of a medium having no margin at the lower end is included. <P>SOLUTION: Before the lower end of a recording medium is separated from a feed roller 13 by a stage 50 for carrying the recording medium, the recording medium is carried together with the feed roller. Since a transition can be made smoothly from carriage of the recording medium by means of the feed roller to carriage of the recording medium by means of the stage, and vice versa, recording image quality can be enhanced over the entire surface of the recording medium including the lower end. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a recording medium conveying apparatus and an ink jet recording apparatus provided with the conveying apparatus.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 10 is a side view showing an internal configuration example of an ink jet printer which is one of general ink jet recording apparatuses. This inkjet printer includes a paper feed roller 1 and a hopper 2 as an automatic continuous paper feed means (auto sheet feeder), and a paper feed roller 3, a driven roller 4, a carry stage 5, a paper discharge roller 6 and a toothed piece as a carry means. A roller (paper discharge serration) 7 is provided, and a carriage 8 and a recording head 9 are provided as recording means.

An ink jet printer having such a structure supplies a recording medium, for example, a sheet by an automatic continuous sheet feeding means, and conveys the sheet by the conveying means while ejecting ink droplets onto the sheet by the recording means. And images are printed. That is, the control unit of the ink jet printer rotates the paper feed roller 1 to rotate the paper feed roller 1.
Is raised, the plurality of sheets P stacked on the hopper 2 are pressed against the sheet feeding roller 1, and the uppermost sheet P is separated from the lower sheet P and fed. Then, the paper P is sandwiched between the paper feed roller 3 and the driven roller 4,
The paper feed roller 3 is rotated to feed it onto the transport stage 5.

Next, for example, each color ink is supplied to the pressure generating chamber of the recording head 9 mounted on the carriage 8 from four color ink cartridges of yellow, magenta, cyan and black, and the ink in the pressure generating chamber is pressurized. Ink droplets are ejected from the nozzle openings toward the paper P. At this time, the ejection timing of each color ink and the drive of the carriage 8 and the paper feed roller 3 are controlled to perform highly accurate ink dot control, halftone processing, and the like. Then, the paper P is sandwiched between the paper discharge roller 6 and the paper discharge notch 7,
The paper discharge roller 6 is rotated to be sent to and discharged onto a paper discharge stacker (not shown).

The ink jet printer having such a structure can print the leading end (hereinafter, referred to as the upper end) of the paper P in the carrying direction and the trailing end (hereinafter, the lower end) in the carrying direction without a margin. In this upper and lower marginless printing, it is necessary to change the feeding speed of the paper P by the paper feed roller 3 to a speed slower than usual and to eject the ink to the paper P by the recording head 9 using only some nozzles. is there.

[0006]

As described above, printing without upper and lower margins cannot be performed using all nozzles, but the reason is as follows. That is, the ink that has deviated from the upper and lower edges of the paper P when performing the printing without the upper and lower margins adheres to the transport stage 5, but if the ink remains attached to the transport stage 5, the paper P may be contaminated. There is. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 10, the ink absorbing materials 5b and 5c that receive and absorb the ink separated from the upper end and the lower end of the paper P are used to secure the paper gap between the paper P and the recording head 9 and the paper P. In order to reduce the transfer resistance generated between the transfer stage 5 and the transfer stage 5,
The ribs 5a are formed on both sides of the rib 5a.

The ink absorbing material 5b and the ink absorbing material 5c
The interval of changes according to the number of nozzles used for printing without upper and lower margins. For example, if the number of nozzles used for printing without upper and lower margins is increased, the gap between the ink absorbing material 5b and the ink absorbing material 5c must be reduced, and the length of the rib 5a is inevitably shortened. However, in order for the rib 5a to firmly support the paper P and maintain a stable paper gap, the rib 5a needs to have a certain length.

Therefore, the required length of the ribs 5a and the accuracy of the top of the paper P, the accuracy of the length of the paper P, the variation of the accuracy of the paper feed, and the shortest distance from the top even when printing the top 5 with no margin at the top are sufficient. The number of nozzles that can be used is inevitably determined in consideration of the fact that the rib 5a is not printed at the time of printing without a bottom margin even when the paper length is shortest, and the like.

That is, since printing without upper and lower margins cannot be performed using all nozzles and ink must be ejected from only some nozzles, it is necessary to feed the paper P at a slower speed than usual. Occurs. Therefore, the printing speed without the upper and lower margins becomes slower than the normal printing speed, the printing work time becomes longer, and the feeding amount of the paper P without the upper and lower margins becomes smaller than the feeding amount of the normal paper P. In some cases, the image quality is disturbed at the boundary between the processing area without upper and lower margins and the normal processing area.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned various problems, and an object thereof is to shorten the recording work time and improve the recording image quality, especially in the case of including recording without a bottom margin of a recording medium. It is an object of the present invention to provide a recording medium conveying device capable of performing the above and an ink jet recording device provided with the conveying device.

[0011]

To achieve the above object, in a recording medium conveying apparatus according to claim 1 of the present invention, an operation of adsorbing a recording medium fed by a feed roller and a feeding direction of the recording medium are performed. A recording medium transporting device having a stage capable of reciprocating motion and transporting the recording medium by appropriately combining the above-mentioned actions, wherein the stage has a lower end of the recording medium from the feed roller. It is characterized in that the recording medium is conveyed together with the feed roller before being separated. As a result, since the transfer of the recording medium by the feed roller to the transfer of the recording medium by the stage can be smoothly performed, the recording image quality of the entire surface of the recording medium including the lower end can be improved.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the recording medium conveying apparatus according to the first aspect, the ink receiving portion for receiving the ink discarded from the nozzle at the time of the recording without the lower end margin of the recording medium is below the stage. It is characterized in that it is provided at a location exposed by the movement of the stage in the main body portion arranged at. As a result, the lower end of the recording medium can be adsorbed on the stage and conveyed by moving the stage, and there is no need to provide an ink receiving portion for recording without a lower end margin on the stage, in order to secure a paper gap. Also, it is not necessary to provide the rib on the stage, which is necessary to reduce the transport resistance. Therefore, since the recording without the bottom margin can be performed at a normal recording speed by using all the nozzles, the recording work time can be shortened and the recording image quality on the entire surface of the recording medium can be improved.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the recording medium conveying apparatus according to the first or second aspect, the supporting portion that supports the lower end of the recording medium separated from the feed roller is
It is characterized in that it is provided so that it can be stored in the rear part of the stage. As a result, since the lower end of the recording medium protruding from the rear end of the stage is supported by the supporting portion, it does not fall even when pulled downward due to the influence of the suction airflow adsorbing the recording medium, and is stable over the entire recording medium. The paper gap can be secured and the recording image quality can be improved.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided an ink jet type recording apparatus for ejecting ink to a recording medium to be conveyed for recording, comprising the recording medium conveying apparatus according to any one of the first to third aspects. It is characterized by that. As a result, it is possible to provide an ink jet recording apparatus that achieves the above-described effects.

[0015]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a side view showing an internal configuration example of an ink jet printer which is one of the ink jet recording apparatuses according to the embodiment of the present invention. This ink jet printer includes a paper feed roller 11 and a hopper 12 as an automatic continuous paper feed means (auto sheet feeder), and a paper feed roller 13 and a driven roller 1 as conveyance means.
4, a transport stage 50 and a main body 60, and a carriage 18 and a recording head 19 as recording means.

In the ink jet printer, a recording medium, for example, a sheet P is supplied by an automatic continuous sheet feeding means, and while the sheet P is conveyed by the conveying means, ink droplets are ejected onto the sheet P by the recording means so that characters and images are formed. Etc. are to be printed. In the following, the conveyance direction of the paper P indicated by the arrow in the figure is referred to as the F direction, and the scanning direction of the recording head 19 is referred to as the S direction.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a detailed example of the transfer stage 50 and the main body 60, and FIG. 3 is a plan view thereof. Hereinafter, the transfer stage 50 and the main body 60 will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 3. The transfer stage 50 formed in the shape of a rectangular flat plate has locking portions 51 formed at both ends in the S direction.
Are engaged with guide shafts 55 attached to both ends of the body portion 60 in the S direction so as to extend in the F direction, and further have teeth with which the belt drive mechanism 56 is disposed on both sides of the body portion 60 in the S direction. It is meshed with the belt 56a. Then, the transport stage 50 is configured to move in the F direction along the guide shaft 55 on the upper surface of the main body 60 by the rotation of the toothed pulley 56b and the toothed belt 56a that form the belt drive mechanism 56.

On the upper surface of the transport stage 50, suction portions 52a and 52b for sucking air to suck the paper P,
An ink receiving portion 53 that receives ink that is discarded from the nozzles of the recording head 19 when printing without margin on the upper end of the paper P.
Are formed. A plurality of suction portions 52a and 52b are formed side by side in the S direction as quadrangular pyramid-shaped recesses. The ink receiving portion 53 is formed as a triangular prism-shaped recess so as to extend in the S direction.

Then, through holes 52aa, 52ba, 53 are formed in the bottoms of the suction portions 52a, 52b and the ink receiving portion 53.
a is perforated. As a result, even when the ink absorbing material is installed in the ink receiving portion 53, the air passes through the through holes 53a, so that the ink absorbing material can be dried in a short time. Further, in this example, two rows of the suction portions 52a are formed side by side from the downstream side in the F direction toward the upstream side in the F direction, the ink receiving portion 53 is subsequently formed, and the suction portion 52b is further formed. There is. The suction portion 52b on the most upstream side is formed especially for sucking the upper and lower ends of the paper P.

A plurality of supporting portions 54 for supporting the lower end of the paper P are arranged at a rear portion of the carrying stage 50 at predetermined intervals. The support portion 54 is composed of a lever 54a whose one end is rotatably locked in a groove provided in the rear portion of the transport stage 50, and a torsion coil spring (not shown) that biases the lever 54a in the rotation direction. Has been done. The lever 54a of the support portion 54 is configured to protrude from the rear portion of the transport stage 50 by the restoring force of the torsion coil spring when the rear portion of the transport stage 50 is separated from the stopper 61 attached to the rear portion of the upper surface of the main body portion 60. ing.

When the rear part of the transfer stage 50 approaches the stopper 61 attached to the upper surface of the rear part of the main body 60, it is pushed into the groove at the rear part of the transfer stage 50 against the restoring force of the torsion coil spring. It is supposed to be stored. In this example, the lever 5 of the support portion 54
Although 4a is rotatably attached, it may be attached so as to be linearly movable by using, for example, a compression coil spring.

The main body 60 is formed with two layers of hollow portions in the vertical direction. Then, a communication port 63 communicating with the upper hollow portion is bored in the upper surface of the body portion 60, and
A communication port 64 that communicates the upper-layer hollow portion and the lower-layer hollow portion is bored in the boundary surface of the hollow portion of the layer, and the front surface of the main body portion 60 is
An exhaust port 65 communicating with the lower hollow portion is bored. The communication port 63 is formed in a rectangular shape at a position that is opened when the transport stage 50 moves to the paper P discharge position on the front side of the main body 60. The communication port 64 is formed in a circular shape at a position just below the communication port 63. The exhaust port 65 is
In a rectangular shape having at least the width of the paper P, the flow passage area from the lower hollow portion to the exhaust port 65 gradually decreases,
The exhaust gas is formed so as to face obliquely upward.

An intake fan 66 is disposed in the lower hollow portion of the main body 60. As a result, the main body 6
The upper hollow portion of 0 is the suction portion 52 through the through holes 52aa, 52ba, 53a formed in the transfer stage 50.
It functions as a decompression chamber 67 that applies a negative pressure to a and 52b and the ink receiving portion 53. The lower hollow portion of the main body portion 60 has through holes 52aa, 52 formed in the transfer stage 50.
It functions as an exhaust chamber 68 for exhausting the air sucked from ba and 53a through the upper hollow portion from the exhaust port 65.

Further, on the upper surface of the main body portion 60, an ink receiving portion 69 is formed which receives the ink which is discarded from the nozzles of the recording head 19 at the time of printing without a bottom margin of the paper P. The ink receiving portion 69 is on the upstream side in the F direction with respect to the communication port 63, and the transport stage 50 has the main body portion 60.
One square recess is formed in the portion exposed when moved to the front side so as to extend in the S direction.
An ink absorbing material may be provided inside the ink receiving portion 69.

In such a structure, an operation example will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 4 and the operation diagrams of FIGS. The control unit of the ink jet printer rotates the paper feed roller 11 and raises the hopper 12, thereby pressing the plurality of sheets P stacked on the hopper 12 against the paper feed roller 11 and lowering the uppermost paper P. Paper P
Separately and feed.

Subsequently, the paper P is sandwiched between the paper feed roller 13 and the driven roller 14, and the paper feed roller 13
Is rotated and fed onto the transfer stage 50. At this time, as shown in FIG. 5A, the transport stage 50 is located at the home position where the lever 54 a of the support portion 54 contacts the stopper 61 of the main body portion 60 and is stored.
At this home position, the transfer stage 50 is attached to the main body 6
When moved to the rear side of 0, the flag is set to the transport stage 5
The position moved by a predetermined distance, for example, 120/180 inch after passing through the stage detector that detects the front part of the side surface of 0.

Then, the paper P is cueed. Specifically, the upper end of the paper P is located in front of the first raster position when printing with the normal paper feed amount, that is, the uppermost end used in the first pass printing shown in FIG. 5B. The sheet P is conveyed so as to come to a position away from the first raster nozzle #n, which is a nozzle, to the rear side of the conveyance stage 50 by a distance d (step S1).

At the same time, the carrying stage 50 is set at the printing start position. Specifically, the transport stage 50 is moved so that the top of the ink receiving portion 53, which is a V-shaped groove formed on the transport stage 50, is located at a position facing the first raster nozzle #n (step S2). At this time, the upper end of the paper P is attracted to the suction portion 52b and is flat, so that a stable paper gap can be secured to improve print image quality, and the floating of the paper P is reduced to perform recording. Contamination due to rubbing with the head 19 can be prevented.

Next, the printing without the upper margin is started. That is, the paper feed roller 13 is adjusted so that the normal paper feed amount is obtained.
In addition, the top of the ink receiving portion 53 is always opposed to the first raster nozzle #n, and the ink droplets that are ejected from the upper end of the paper P and discarded are reliably received by the ink receiving portion 53. The transport stage 50 is moved to the front side of the main body 60 in synchronization with the rotation of the paper feed roller 13 (step S3). At this time, the ink receiving portion 5
Since the ink received in 3 is discharged to the outside through the through hole 53a without accumulating inside, it is possible to reduce the contamination of the paper P by the ink as compared with the case where the ink is simply absorbed by the ink absorbing material. It is possible to reduce the number of maintenance steps such as replacement of the ink absorbing material.

For example, as shown in FIG. 9, this upper end marginless printing is # 8 in the first pass when the nozzle interval of the recording head 19 is 4, the number of nozzles is 11, and the feed amount is 11.
The printing without the upper margin is performed by the ink droplets ejected from the nozzles # 1 to # 11, the ink droplets ejected from the nozzles # 1 to # 7 are discarded in the ink receiving portion 53, and the ink drops ejected from the nozzles # 5 to # 5 in the second pass. The upper end marginless printing is performed by the ink droplets ejected from the # 11 nozzle, and the ink droplets ejected from the # 1 to # 4 nozzles are discarded in the ink receiving portion 53. Further, in the third pass, the upper end marginless printing is performed by the ink droplets ejected from the nozzles # 3 to # 11, and the ink droplets ejected from the nozzles # 1 to # 2 are discarded in the ink receiving portion 53. , The upper end marginless printing is performed by the ink droplets ejected from all the nozzles in the fourth and subsequent passes.

Then, as shown in FIGS. 6 (A) and 6 (B), when the flag of the transport stage 50 passes a stage detector which detects the rear portion of the side surface of the transport stage 50 (step S4), the paper feed roller 13 is moved. The printing operation is continued as it is by rotating the paper so that the paper feed amount is normal, as shown in FIG.
As shown in, the transport stage 50 alone is moved to the rear side of the main body 60 to return to the home position (step S5). Thus, the upper end to the lower end of the paper P can be supported on the transport stage 50, so that a stable paper gap can be secured over the entire surface of the paper P and the print image quality can be improved.

Next, when the paper detector 15 detects the lower end of the paper P during the continuous printing operation (steps S6 and S7), the printing without the lower end margin is started. That is, when the paper detector 15 detects the lower end of the paper P, the conveyance stage 50 is started to move to the front side of the main body 60 with the same movement amount as the normal paper feed amount by the paper feed roller 13 (step S8). ). As a result, the transfer of the paper P by the paper feed roller 13 to the transfer of the paper P by the transfer stage 50 can be smoothly performed, so that the print image quality of the entire surface of the paper P can be improved. At this time, it is not necessary to synchronize the feed speed of the paper P by the transport stage 50 and the feed speed of the paper P by the paper feed roller 13 because the slip of the paper P absorbs the synchronization.

Then, as shown in FIG. 7B, the paper P
When the lower end of the sheet P comes out of the paper feed roller 13, the sheet P is adsorbed and held on the conveyance stage 50 and conveyed. At this time, the lower end of the paper P on the transport stage 50 is attracted to the suction section 52b and is flat, and further, the transport stage 50
Since the lower end of the paper P protruding from the rear end is supported by the support portion 54, it does not fall even if it is pulled downward due to the influence of the suction airflow that adsorbs the paper P, so a stable paper gap is secured. It is possible to improve the print image quality by reducing the floating of the paper P and
Contamination due to friction with 9 can be prevented. Then, when the transport stage 50 moves, the ink receiving portion 69 of the main body portion 60 is exposed, so that the ink receiving portion 69 receives the ink droplets that are detached from the lower end of the paper P and discarded.

When the print data is completed (step S9), the paper P is discharged. That is, when the print data is completed, as shown in FIG.
Is continuously driven to move to the paper discharge position (step S
10). At this paper discharge position, the transfer stage 50 is set to the main body 6
When it is moved to the front side of 0, the flag is changed to the transport stage 5.
The position moved by a predetermined distance, for example, 28/180 inch after passing through the stage detector for detecting the rear portion of the side surface of 0.

Then, when the transport stage 50 moves to the paper discharge position, a part of the communication port 63 is opened and the suction section 52 is opened.
At the same time, the suction force of a and 52b decreases, and at the same time, the exhaust amount of the paper discharge port 65 increases. Therefore, until then, the transfer stage 5
The sheet P adsorbed on the sheet 0 is pushed out onto a sheet discharge stacker (not shown) by the air blown from the sheet discharge port 65 (step S11). As a result, it is possible to dispense with a discharge roller for the sheet P and the like, so that the sheet P can be discharged in a good state without scars, ink rubs, and the like. Then, the transfer stage 50 is moved to the rear side of the main body 60 to return to the home position (step S1).
2) Then, the printing process ends.

As described above, the conveyor stage 50 is connected to the belt drive mechanism 62 and the suction section 52a,
Since 52b is formed, the upper and lower ends of the paper P are adsorbed on the transport stage 50 and the paper P is transported to the transport stage 50.
Can be transported by moving the. Further, since the ink receiving portion 69 for printing without a bottom margin is formed on the main body portion 60, only one ink receiving portion 53 for printing without a top margin may be provided on the transport stage 50.

Therefore, it is not necessary to provide the rib on the transport stage 50, which is conventionally required to secure the paper gap and reduce the transport resistance.
It is possible to solve the problems described in the related art. For this reason, printing without upper and lower margins can be performed at a normal printing speed by using all the nozzles as in normal printing, so that it is possible to shorten the printing work time and to perform printing with the upper and lower marginless printing area It is possible to improve the print quality of the entire surface of the paper by eliminating the boundary with the print portion.

In the above-described embodiment, the planar shape of the ink receiving portion 53 formed on the transport stage 50 is rectangular. However, when the transport stage 50 returns to the home position, the end portion of the paper P receives the ink. The plane shape of the ink receiving portion 53 may be a trapezoidal shape with a rake angle in the paper width direction so as not to be caught by the portion 53. A honeycomb trap for trapping the sucked ink mist may be provided inside the decompression chamber 67 of the main body 60.

Further, when the flag of the carrying stage 50 passes a stage detector for detecting the rear portion of the side surface of the carrying stage 50, control is performed so that only the carrying stage 50 is moved to the rear side of the main body 60 and returned to the home position. However, when the upper end of the paper P passes through the nozzle #N, it may be controlled so that only the transport stage 50 is moved to the rear side of the main body 60 and returned to the home position.

Further, the transfer stage 50 is moved to the paper discharge position, a part of the communication port 62 is opened, and the suction portion 52a,
The paper P is discharged after the suction force of 52b is reduced. For example, a flap that can be opened and closed is provided on the upper surface of the main body 60, and the flap is opened when the transport stage 50 moves to the paper discharge position. Alternatively, the sheet P may be ejected after the sheet P is floated by making the positive pressure to blow air from the suction portions 52a and 52b.

Further, in order to eject the paper P straight without rotating it, the paper P may be ejected while preventing its rotation by pressing the right side surface of the paper P against the edge guide on the right side as seen from the front of the carrying stage 50. . For this purpose, for example, a partition plate extending in the F direction is provided inside the transfer stage 50 to divide the room into rooms, and a room on the right side when viewed from the front of the transfer stage 50 generates a negative pressure to suck the paper P and the left side. In this room, positive pressure is generated to float the paper P, and the paper P
Prevent the rotation by pressing the right side of the to the edge guide.
Further, rubber or the like is attached to the right side conveyance surface when viewed from the front of the conveyance stage 50 so that the friction resistance of the right side conveyance surface becomes higher than the friction resistance of the left side conveyance surface, and the right side surface of the paper P is edge-guided. Press against to prevent rotation. Further, the discharge port 65 is not formed in a simple rectangular shape, but is formed so that the right side is wider than the left side when viewed from the front of the main body 60, and the flow velocity of the air on the right side is higher than that of the air on the left side. It is slowed down, and the right side surface of the paper P is pressed against the edge guide to prevent rotation.

In each of the above-described embodiments, the printer has been described as an example of the ink jet type recording apparatus, but the present invention is not limited to this, and any recording apparatus having a recording medium conveying device may be used, for example, a facsimile machine or a copy machine. It is also applicable to a device or the like. Although the present invention has been described above with respect to various embodiments, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and is applied to other embodiments within the scope of the invention described in the claims. Of course,

[0044]

As described above, according to the recording medium conveying device and the ink jet type recording device of the present invention, the transfer of the recording medium from the feed roller to the conveyance of the recording medium by the stage is smoothly carried out. Therefore, it is possible to improve the recording image quality of the entire surface of the recording medium including the lower end.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side view showing an internal configuration example of an inkjet printer which is one of inkjet recording apparatuses according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a detailed example of a transfer stage and a main body of the inkjet printer shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a plan view of FIG.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an operation example of the inkjet printer of FIG.

5 is a first operation diagram and a second operation diagram of the ink jet printer of FIG.

6A and 6B are third and fourth operation diagrams of the inkjet printer of FIG.

7A and 7B are fifth and sixth operation diagrams of the ink jet printer of FIG.

FIG. 8 is a seventh operation diagram of the ink jet printer of FIG.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing nozzles used by the recording head when performing printing without a top margin with the inkjet printer of FIG.

FIG. 10 is a side view showing an internal configuration of a conventional inkjet printer.

[Explanation of symbols]

11 Paper feed roller 12 hoppers 13 Paper feed roller 14 Driven roller 18 carriage 19 recording head 50 transfer stage 52a suction unit 52aa through hole 52b Suction section 52ba through hole 53 Ink receiver 53a through hole 54 Support 54a lever 55 Guide shaft 56 Belt drive mechanism 60 main body 61 stopper 63 communication port 64 communication ports 65 Exhaust port 66 intake fan 67 Decompression room 68 Exhaust chamber 69 Ink receiver

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Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. An operation of adsorbing a recording medium fed by a feed roller and an operation of reciprocating in the feeding direction of the recording medium are possible, and the recording medium is conveyed by appropriately combining the respective operations. A recording medium conveying device having a stage for transporting the recording medium together with the feed roller before the lower end of the recording medium leaves the feed roller. . 2. An ink receiving portion for receiving ink that is discarded from a nozzle at the time of recording without margin at the lower end of the recording medium is provided at a portion exposed by movement of the stage in a main body portion disposed below the stage. The recording medium conveying device according to claim 1, wherein the recording medium conveying device is a recording medium conveying device. 3. The recording medium according to claim 1, wherein a support portion that supports a lower end of the recording medium separated from the feed roller is provided at a rear portion of the stage so as to be retractable. Transport device. 4. An ink jet type recording apparatus for recording ink by ejecting ink onto a conveyed recording medium, wherein the recording medium conveying apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 3 is provided. Inkjet recording device.