Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes: a recording portion; a sheet conveyor; a detector; and a controller configured to control the sheet conveyor to stop a first-attribute sheet in a state in which the sheet conveyor is nipping the first-attribute sheet when the detector has detected that the first-attribute sheet reaches a first-attribute-sheet stopping position; and to control the sheet conveyor to stop a second-attribute sheet in a state in which the sheet conveyor is nipping the second-attribute sheet when the detector has detected that the second-attribute sheet reaches a second-attribute-sheet stopping position which is located on an upstream side of the first-attribute-sheet stopping position in the conveying direction.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a print head for inkjet printing, and a guide disposed opposing the print head and configured to guide a back surface of a sheet being conveyed in a first direction. The back surface is a reverse surface of a surface being printed. The printing apparatus further includes a receiving unit disposed opposing the print head and configured to receive ink outside the sheet being conveyed, and a mechanism configured to change a position of the guide in a second direction relative to the receiving unit being fixed, according to a size of the sheet to be used. The second direction crosses the first direction.

Abstract: A transportation device includes a transportation unit that transports continuous paper, and an image capturing unit that has a light irradiator capable of irradiating the continuous paper which is transported by the transportation unit with light and detects a transportation amount of the continuous paper based on reflected light of the light irradiated onto the continuous paper by the light irradiator. The light irradiator is arranged so as to irradiate the continuous paper with light obliquely with respect to the detection region of the continuous paper from the width direction side of the continuous paper, which is orthogonal to the transportation direction of the continuous paper.

Abstract: A printer includes a roll driving mechanism for causing a roll to rotate and a medium to be conveyed, a roll driving section for driving the roll driving mechanism, a first conveying mechanism for conveying the medium, a first driving section for driving the first conveying mechanism, a second conveying mechanism for conveying the medium, and a second driving section for driving the second conveying mechanism, and a controller for performing a control in such a way that when there is a change in the rate at which the first conveying mechanism conveys the medium, the maximum amount of the difference between the amount of the medium conveyed by the roll driving mechanism and the amount of the medium conveyed by the second conveying mechanism exceeds the maximum amount of the difference.

Abstract: A transportation device includes: a transportation section that transports a continuous paper; and an imaging unit that detects a transportation amount of the continuous paper which is transported by the transportation section. The imaging unit includes a lens barrel; a light irradiation unit disposed in the lens barrel and capable of radiating light on the continuous paper; a condensing lens which is disposed in a position farther than the light irradiation section with respect to the continuous paper in the lens barrel and condenses a reflected light when the light is radiated from the light irradiation section to the continuous paper; and an imaging element which is disposed in a position farther than the condensing lens with respect to the continuous paper P in the lens barrel and captures an image by receiving the reflected light condensed by the condensing lens.

Abstract: A printing system for printing on a print medium is disclosed. A linehead is disposed opposite a first side of the print medium, the linehead defining one or more print zones where a liquid is jetted onto the print medium. One or more vacuum transport rollers having a porous sleeve rotatable around a non-rotating core are disposed adjacent to a second side of the print medium and opposite the linehead. At least one of the vacuum transport rollers is aligned with one of the print zones of the linehead. The rotatable porous sleeve is engaged by the moving print medium that exerts a force on the porous sleeve, causing it to rotate. The core includes a vacuum manifold that outputs a vacuum force that operates on the print medium through the porous sleeve to deflect the print medium and causes the print medium to wrap around the vacuum transport roller(s).

Abstract: An ink jet recording apparatus includes: a media tray; a roller pair capable of selectively conveying the media tray and a sheet; a recording device disposed downstream of the roller pair in a conveying direction and configured to eject ink droplets; lower contact portions disposed downstream of the roller pair in the conveying direction; and an upper contact portion configured to cooperate with the lower contact portions to corrugate the sheet. The media tray has a downstream edge portion in a tray inserting direction in which the media tray is inserted. The downstream edge portion has at least one inclined portion inclining obliquely upward toward an upstream side in the tray inserting direction. The at least one inclined portion contacts the upper contact portion to move the upper contact portion upward.

Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes an unwinder, a recorder, a take-up part, a first supporter, a surface modifying part, and a second supporter. The unwinder unwinds a base material from a roll. The recorder records an image onto a surface of the base material. The take-up part takes up the base material on which an image has been recorded by the recorder. The first supporter supports the base material that is being conveyed in a direction away from the recorder after having been unwound from the unwinder. The surface modifying part modifies a surface of the base material by energizing the surface of the base material that has passed through the first supporter. The second supporter supports the base material that is being conveyed in a direction toward the recorder after having passed through the surface modifying part. The second supporter is more distant from the unwinder than the first supporter is.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes an endless belt that transports a recording medium by supporting a first surface of a tape-like recording medium on a support surface; and a recording head that performs recording by ejecting ink on a second surface that is an attachment surface coated with an adhesive on the opposite side to the first surface of the recording medium transported by the endless belt.

Abstract: A printing system for printing on a print medium is disclosed. A first linehead is disposed opposite a first side of the print medium. The first linehead defines print zones where a liquid is deposited onto the first side of the print medium. A plurality of transport rollers are disposed adjacent to the second side of the print medium. At least one transport roller is aligned with one of the one or more print zones of the first linehead. A vacuum manifold is disposed opposite the second side of the print medium. The vacuum manifold is aligned with the aligned transport roller and outputs a vacuum force that operates on the second side of the print medium to deflect the print medium causing an increase in the wrap angle of the print medium around the aligned transport roller.

Abstract: A method for printing on a print medium is disclosed. The method includes providing a linehead defining one or more print zones and adapted to jet liquid onto the print medium. One or more vacuum transport rollers having a porous sleeve rotatable around a non-rotating core are also provided. At least one vacuum transport roller is disposed adjacent to the second side of the movable print medium, opposite the first linehead, and aligned with a print zone. The core includes a vacuum manifold that outputs a vacuum force that operates on the print medium through the porous sleeve. The print medium is moved through the printing system and a vacuum force deflects the print medium, causing an increase in a wrap angle of the print medium around the vacuum transport roller. Liquid is jetted from the linehead onto the print medium to form a print.

Abstract: A core tube holding device includes: a holding portion which holds a cylindrical core tube extending in an axial direction; a support portion which supports the holding portion; a shaft portion which rotates the support portion and the holding portion; and a bearing portion which is connected to the support portion and into which the shaft portion is inserted. The holding portion and the bearing portion are formed to be harder than the support portion.

Abstract: A sheet conveying device includes a conveyance belt, a conveyance plate, an air intake portion, and a charging portion. The conveyance belt has a plurality of belt openings formed in a previously-set suction attraction region in end portions thereof in a width direction perpendicular to a conveyance direction of a sheet, and conveys the sheet. The conveyance plate has a plurality of platen openings formed therein at positions corresponding to the belt openings in the width direction, and is disposed on a back surface side of the conveyance belt. The air intake portion suctions air through the belt openings and the platen openings from the back surface side of the conveyance plate. The charging portion charges a previously-set electrostatic attraction region in a center portion in the width direction of the conveyance belt.

Abstract: A method for printing on a moving print medium in a printing system is disclosed. The method includes providing a linehead defining one or more print zones. A plurality of transport rollers are provided, wherein at least one transport roller is disposed opposite the linehead, adjacent to the second side of the print medium, and aligned with one of the print zones. A vacuum assembly is disposed opposite the second side of the print medium and includes a vacuum manifold aligned with the aligned transport roller. The print medium is moved through the printing system and a vacuum force operates on the print medium such that at least a portion of the print medium is deflected thereby increasing a wrap angle of the moving print medium around the aligned transport roller. Liquid is jetted from the linehead onto the print medium to form a print.

Abstract: An ink leveling device for controlling a temperature difference across a substrate having ink disposed on the upper surface, the device including a cooling device cooling a bottom of a substrate to a first temperature that is lower than a viscosity threshold temperature of the ink, a heating device heating the upper surface of the ink layer to a second temperature that is greater than the viscosity threshold temperature of the ink and a device applying shear force across the upper surface of the ink layer.

Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes a head, a receiving device, a holding portion, and a path. The head includes ejection ports that eject a recording liquid onto a recording medium. The receiving device is disposed below the head along a substantially vertical direction and receives recording liquid ejected from the ejection ports. The holding portion is disposed above the receiving device along the substantially vertical direction and holds a recording medium on which the head ejected recording liquid from the ejection ports. The holding portion includes a wall surface. The wall surface includes an opening formed therein. The path guides liquid on the wall surface of the holding portion from the opening in the wall surface of the holding portion to the receiving device. The substantially vertical direction is substantially opposite to a direction of gravity.

Abstract: A system and method for printing on a continuous web of imaging material in an inkjet printing machine having a turnbar reverser to reverse the direction of the web for duplex printing. The turnbar reverser includes at least one turnbar having a predetermined pattern of apertures formed in a surface of the turnbar. The optimized apertures direct a flow of air provided by a blower to provide an air flow to float the web above the surface of the turnbar, allow for higher operating tensions, and reduce acoustic noise generation.

Abstract: An inkjet printer including a feeding device configured to feed a sheet in a feeding direction, a platen configured to support the sheet, a recording device configured to eject ink on the sheet, contacting members configured to contact the sheet, a detector configured to detect an end portion position of the sheet in a width direction, and a controller configured to control the feeding device and the recording device is provided. The contacting members are arranged at intervals in the width direction, and the controller performs a suppression process in which at least one of the feeding device and the recording device is controlled to suppress a contact of the sheet with the recording device when the end portion position detected by the detector is a position between the two adjacent contacting members.

Abstract: Problems related to being unable to convey recording paper in a printer due to the tension guide that guides the recording paper while tensioning the paper are eliminated. A removable guide 40 can be removably installed to the tension guide 26 of the printer 1. The removable guide 40 has a second guide surface that is defined by a pair of rollers 45, 46. When printing on recording paper 25A that has a high friction coefficient for making wrist bands, the removable guide 40 is installed to the tension guide 26, the recording paper 25A is passed over the rollers 45, 46, and the recording paper 25A is guided to the paper feed roller 30 while tension is maintained. The recording paper 25A can be reliably conveyed because the paper feed load of the removable guide 40 pressed to the recording paper 25A by the tension guide 26 is small.

Abstract: In a printing apparatus with a unit for performing a post processing after printing, visibility and operability from the downstream side can be improved. The printing apparatus includes a first unit configured to perform printing on a sheet; and a second unit configured to perform a predetermined process for the sheet, the second unit being capable of shifting between a first position and a second position. A part of the second unit becomes a support of the sheet for printing by the first unit when the second unit is in the first position, and the part does not become the support when the second unit is in the second position.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording unit configured to record an image on a recording medium; a roller pair for conveying the recording medium or a tray with the recording medium mounted thereon, a cover covering an opening for replacing a component of the recording unit, a guide member supported by the cover and overlapping at least a part of the cover when in a closed state and capable of guiding the tray to an insertion port of the tray when in an open state, and a release member configured to, in conjunction with the opening of the guide member, to cause the roller pair to be separated, wherein if the cover is opened along with the tray, the release member does not cause the roller pair to be separated.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus having a transport device including a pair of timing rollers, operable to cause a leading edge of a recording sheet to abut a nip portion of the non-rotating timing rollers, and then initiate rotation to transport the sheet toward a transfer position, the transport device comprising: a motor transmitting rotational force to the timing rollers via a power transmission mechanism such that the timing rollers rotate; and a control unit controlling motor rotation, wherein the control unit activates the motor, causes the timing rollers to transport a first recording sheet at a first speed, and stops the motor once transportation is complete, and when a second recording sheet is to be subsequently transported at a different second speed, the control unit causes the timing rollers to execute an idle rotation at the second speed or at another speed, and then stopping, before beginning second sheet transportation.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit forming an image on a recording medium; and a feeding unit feeding the recording medium in first and second directions opposite to each other relative to the image forming unit. Further when the recording medium is supplied from a first or second side of the feeding unit, while the feeding unit feeds the recording medium in the first or second feeding direction, the image forming unit forms an image on the recording medium, and the feeding unit further feeds the recording medium to the second or first side, respectively, of the feeding unit.

Abstract: A recording medium feeding device includes a tray in which accommodates a recording medium, which is attachable to and detachable from a device main body including a feeding unit; a stopper that is able to switch between a regulating state in which the stopper comes into contact with a leading edge of the recording medium which is accommodated in the tray to regulate a movement of the recording medium, and a regulating release state that enables the recording medium to be fed to a feeding path; and a switching unit that is engaged with the tray to switch the stopper from the regulating state to the regulating release state, wherein the switching unit includes engaging portions that engages with the tray, and wherein the engaging portions are disposed, being separated from the stopper at the both sides of the stopper in a width direction of the recording medium.

Abstract: A printer includes: a stationary inkjet printhead having a print zone; and a feed mechanism for feeding print media past the printhead along a media feed path. The media feed path guides print media past the printhead wherein the media feed path guides print media past the printhead at an inclined trajectory with respect to a horizontal plane of the printhead.

Abstract: In one example, a platen for supporting a print substrate includes multiple support surfaces that together define the full extent of a substrate support area of the platen. Each support surface is oriented parallel to other support surfaces along a line that is oblique to a direction the print substrate is to pass over the support surfaces when the platen is in use in a printer or other liquid dispenser.

Abstract: A recording device includes a head unit that ejects ink onto a target recording medium, and transport units that transport the target recording medium. The transport units are provided with driving rollers that are provided so as to come into contact with a first surface of the target recording medium, and that generate a delivery power in the target recording medium, and air delivery units that push the target recording medium against the driving rollers by applying air pressure to the driving rollers from a side of a second surface of the target recording medium.

Abstract: A machine for inkjet printing three-dimensional objects, for example gas-filled balls, includes an apparatus having an inkjet print head for inkjet printing an object, an apparatus having at least one sucker for holding the object and an apparatus having a first drive and a second drive for rotating the object about two rotational axes which are different from one another.

Abstract: Systems, mechanisms, and methods are described that relate to the production of a custom printed insert(s) that can be custom printed prior to insertion of the custom printed insert(s) into an envelope along with a personalized card/carrier combination for mailing to the intended holder of the personalized card. The inserts are custom printed using an insert printer that is located in the inserter mechanism that is used to insert the insert(s) and the card/carrier combination into an envelope for mailing to an end user of the card. The inserter mechanism can have an “off-line” configuration, i.e. configured as a stand-alone mechanism, or configured for “in-line” use, i.e. used together with other mechanisms.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first power source configured to supply power for driving a load to be used for image formation via a first power line, a load control circuit configured to control driving of the load, a control circuit configured to output control data for the load control circuit to control the load, a second power source configured to supply power for the load control circuit via a second power line provided separately from the first power line, a superimposing circuit configured to superimpose the control data output from the control circuit onto the second power line, and a separation circuit configured to separate the control data from the second power line, on which the control data is superimposed and sent, and to output the control data to the load control circuit.

Abstract: A recording medium after printing which is discharged from a main body of a printer is guided from the main body to a support surface of a discharge support portion extending to a lower anterior side, and is wound as a roll body by a winding unit in a path that passes a tension roller. A tape-shaped elastic member is fixed on an end portion of a downstream side in a transport direction of the discharge support portion so as to extend in a width direction. An elastic friction surface is formed on the end portion of the downstream side in the transport direction of the support surface. A friction coefficient between the elastic friction surface and the recording medium is higher than the friction coefficient between a portion at an upstream side in the transport direction from the elastic friction surface in the support surface and the recording medium.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device, a conveyor, and a separation unit. The image forming device forms an image on a printing medium. The separation unit separates a printing medium from the belt. The separation unit includes a claw portion to contact the belt, and a first wing and a second wing disposed at both sides of the claw portion in a direction perpendicular to a conveyance direction of the printing medium. Each of the first wing and the second wing has a guide face to guide the printing medium. The guide face is a sloped face that slopes downward in a direction away from the claw portion with respect to the direction perpendicular to the conveyance direction of the printing medium. Each of the first wing and the second wing has an upstream end that recedes toward a downstream side in the conveyance direction.

Abstract: Provided is a recording apparatus that includes a setting portion in which a recording medium is set, a head portion which discharges ink onto the recording medium, a transporting roller portion which is provided at a portion between the setting portion and the head portion in a transporting path of the recording medium and transports the recording medium, a blower which blows air to a recording surface side of the recording medium transported by the transporting roller portion and to a portion between the transporting roller portion and the head portion, and an ion generator which is provided at a portion between the blower and the recording surface side of the recording medium, in the air blowing path of air blown by the blower.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a media roll, an image forming device, a conveyance unit, and a controller. In the roll, a printing medium having an adhesive face and no separation sheet on the adhesive face is wound in a roll shape. In pulling back the medium to the roll, the controller sets a linear velocity of the roll to be not lower than a linear velocity of a conveyance rotator of the conveyance unit. The controller controls a velocity difference between the roll and the rotator to be Va from a start of pulling back the medium to when a separation point of the medium from the roll reaches a tangent line of the roll in an area between the roll and the rotator. When the separation point reaches the tangent line, the controller switches the velocity difference from Va to Vb that is smaller than Va.

Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes: a roller pair for conveying a sheet in a conveying direction along a conveyance path; a head for ejecting liquid; a platen opposite the head; contact portions, spaced apart from each other in a widthwise direction and opposite the platen, for contacting the sheet between the roller pair and nozzles of the head; first and second guide members disposed upstream of the roller pair in the conveying direction and disposed in the conveyance path nearer to the head and the platen, respectively; a rotatable lever including an arm protruding from the first guide member toward the second guide member into the conveyance path; and a sensor for detecting rotation of the lever. The arm in the widthwise direction overlaps at least one of the contact portions.

Abstract: A sheet conveying device and an image forming apparatus include a conveying member that adsorbs a sheet by an electric charge and conveys the sheet, a first electric charger to charge the conveying member by applying voltage, and a second electric charger to charge the conveying member by applying voltage. The second electric charger is arranged downstream from the first electric charger in a conveying direction, and applies the electric charge with the same polarity as the first electric charger to the conveying member.

Abstract: A printing control apparatus configured to execute printing using continuous sheets stored in a plurality of storage portions includes a determination unit configured to determine a continuous sheet usable by each print job in a print queue, and a decision unit configured to decide a use order of the continuous sheets stored in the plurality of storage portions based on a result of determination by the determination unit, wherein the decision unit decides the use order so that a continuous sheet with a smaller remaining amount is used preferentially.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes a first belt transporting unit for transporting a recording medium by absorbing and supporting, a recording unit disposed to face the first belt transporting unit to eject ink to the recording medium, a second belt transporting unit disposed adjacent to the first belt transporting unit on a downstream side in a transport direction to transport the recording medium by absorbing and supporting, and a transport guiding unit disposed to face a transporting surface of the second transporting unit. A surface of the transport guiding unit facing the second transporting unit is provided with a plurality of ribs extending in the transport direction. Protruding heights of the ribs with respect to the transporting surface of the second transporting unit are gradually decreased from an outermost rib to an innermost rib in a width direction of the recording medium.

Abstract: There is provided an image recording apparatus including a transporting path, a recording section, a first and second rollers pinching the recording medium therebetween, a supporting member which rotatably supports the second roller, a holding member which is movable along a transporting direction of the recording medium, a bias applying member which applies a bias on the holding member, in an opposite direction opposite to the transporting direction and a load member which generates a load in the opposite direction, with respect to the recording medium.

Abstract: A medium transport device includes a restricting unit that is provided in a device main body, and that is coupled with an attaching and detaching operation of a unit body, which configures a portion of a transport pathway, to the device main body. The restricting unit changes between a first state that allows the cover to attain a closed state with respect to the device main body and a second state that restricts the cover from attaining a closed state with respect to the device main body.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a conveying unit, recording processing unit, recording detection unit provided downstream of the recording processing unit to check plural maintenance patterns recorded on a continuous sheet, cutter unit, plural discharge units to selectively receive cut sheets, discharge unit changeover unit to select one discharge unit to receive a cut sheet, conveyance failure detection unit, and control unit. The control unit controls the discharge unit changeover unit such that, when a continuous sheet conveyance failure is detected upstream of a position where the cutter is, and a maintenance pattern previously checked is present downstream of the cutter when the conveyance failure is detected, a present sheet unit between the maintenance pattern and the cutter position is discharged to a second discharge unit. The second discharge unit is different from a first discharge unit used for a sheet unit other than the present sheet unit.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus may include a corrugate mechanism configured to form a sheet into a corrugated shape. The inkjet recording apparatus may be configured to receive sheets of various sizes and shapes. Accordingly, in some examples, the inkjet recording apparatus may include differently configured portions to handle sheets of different sizes or shapes. According to one arrangement, the inkjet recording apparatus may be configured to receive passage of sheets of a first size through multiple ones of the differently configured portions while receiving passage of sheets of a second size though limited ones of the differently configured portions.

Abstract: A sheet cutting device includes a cutter including opposed blades to cut a sheet fed along a sheet feed path to the device, a cutter holder holding the cutter and reciprocally movable in a width direction of the sheet perpendicular to a sheet feed direction in which the sheet is fed, and a guide member including a first path to guide the holder in the width direction of the sheet to cut the sheet with the cutter and a second path to guide the holder in the width direction after the sheet is cut. The second path is disposed away from the first path in a thickness direction of the sheet perpendicular to both the sheet feed direction and the width direction of the sheet. When the holder moves along the second path, the holder is retracted away from the sheet feed path in the thickness direction of the sheet.

Abstract: Disclosed is a moveable platen cart for handling sheets of substrate media in a printing system. The platen cart includes a cart frame, a media platen, a vacuum port and a valve. The cart frame is configured to translate along a process track. The media platen is secured to the cart frame. The media platen has a foraminous upper surface for receiving a substrate media sheet thereon. The media platen has a subsurface cavity in fluid communication with the foraminous upper surface. The vacuum port is for evacuating air from the cavity. The valve is for selectively closing and opening the vacuum port.

Abstract: A method of producing a set of blinds with a custom printed graphic image disclosed. The set of blinds have slats which are not connected and thus the set of blinds can be assembled easily after having been printed on.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting unit that ejects ink onto paper, a first removal roller that rotates in a direction opposite to a transportation direction of the paper at a first contact position in a state of being contact with a first surface of the paper that is transported at the first contact position so as to remove adhering objects which have adhered to the paper, and a second removal roller that rotates in a direction opposite to the transportation direction of the paper at a second contact position in a state of being contact with a second surface of the paper that is transported at the second contact position so as to remove adhering objects which have adhered to the paper.

Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes a transportation portion which transports a medium in a transportation direction, a cutting portion which moves in an intersection direction intersecting with the transportation direction and cuts the medium, and a head portion which is provided so as to be aligned with the cutting portion in the intersection direction, has a cutout portion on which the cutting portion is arranged, moves in the intersection direction and discharges liquid onto the medium.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a transfer device that transfers a printing medium in a transfer direction, a platen having a support surface that supports the printing medium thereon, a liquid ejection head that ejects an ink onto the printing medium on the support surface, and a heating device that heats the printing medium. The transfer device includes a plurality of driven rollers. The support surface of the platen has a plurality of suction holes that suck the printing medium on the support surface. The support surface includes first portion extending in the transfer direction corresponding to extension lines extending in the transport direction from the portions between each driven roller, and second portions other than the first portions. The first portions are high-density regions where the suction holes are arranged at high density, and the second portions are low-density regions where the suction holes are arranged at low density.

Abstract: A sheet transport device includes: a sheet transporting unit that transports a sheet; a sheet guiding member that is divided into plural member portions and guides the sheet transported from the sheet transporting unit; and a common locating member that is arranged on sides of the sheet guiding member which sandwich the member portions of the sheet guiding member, and collectively locates and holds the member portions of the sheet guiding member.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body, a print medium, a conveyance unit, art image forming unit, a cutter unit, a holding unit, a sensor, and a controller. The print medium has an adhesive face with no separation sheet. The cutter unit cuts the medium having an image formed into a print medium piece. The holding unit is configured to hold the piece in a state in which the piece is drawable from outside of the body. The holding unit has a surface separatable from an adhesive face of the piece to hold the adhesive face of the piece. The sensor detects presence or absence of the piece held by the holding unit. After the sensor detects that the piece is drawn out, the controller controls the conveyance unit to convey the medium to the holding unit and controls the holding unit to hold the medium.