Printing apparatus and method for adjusting a gap

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8840207
APP PUB NO 20130286066A1
SERIAL NO

13865480

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A printing apparatus includes: a support member that supports a recording medium; a head plate that extends in a direction that intersects a transporting direction of the recording medium; a head body mounted on the head plate and having a nozzle that ejects a liquid onto the recording medium supported on a surface of the support member; and adjusting members that respectively project from opposite ends of the head plate in a direction of the head plate that intersects the transporting direction toward the support member, and that position the head plate with respect to the surface of the support member when each distal end of the adjusting members contacts the surface of the support member.

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  • SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Wanibe, Akihisa Nagano, JP 57 621

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