Image forming apparatus

Details Image forming apparatus Image forming apparatus

2011-05-31

2011-05-31

Luu, Matthew (Department: 2861)

Incremental printing of symbolic information

Ink jet

Medium and processing means

Reexamination Certificate

active

07950797

ABSTRACT:
A disclosed image forming apparatus includes a recording head configured to eject liquid droplets onto a sheet to form an image; a transport unit configured to intermittently transport the sheet; a discharge transport unit disposed downstream the transport unit in a transport direction, the discharge transport unit including plural transport rollers configured to transport the sheet in a sheet discharge direction and plural spurs disposed facing the respective transport rollers and arranged in the transport direction; a guide member configured to hold the spurs and be rotatable about a most downstream side or a most upstream side in the transport direction to rotate in a direction away from a sheet transport path; and a stopping and holding unit configured to stop and hold the guide member in a position in which only the spur in the most downstream side in the transport direction is in contact with the sheet.

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