1. Technical Field
The present invention relates to a recording apparatus such as an ink jet type printer, and a medium loading device provided in the recording apparatus.
2. Related Art
Generally, as a kind of recording apparatus, an ink jet type printer is widely known. This kind of printer performs printing by supplying ink into a recording head and ejecting the supplied ink from a nozzle of the recording head toward a recording medium. Some printers of this kind use large-size roll paper as the recording medium (see, for example, JP-A-2009-23171).
In the printer according to JP-A-2009-23171, for preparation of printing, a roll assembly formed by integrating a roll of a long recording medium that is rolled into a roll, a pair of flanges attached to both end sections of the roll, and a spindle member inserted into the center of the roll is loaded into a loading portion.
In the printer according to JP-A-2009-23171, for loading the roll assembly into the loading portion, the roll assembly is temporarily placed on a temporary placement portion, and is subsequently moved by being rotated on a surface of a guide portion so that the roll assembly may be transferred to the loading portion. Thus, there is a problem that, when loading the roll assembly into the loading portion, the roll assembly may become unstable.
Similar problems may occur not only in the above-described ink jet type printer but also in all kinds of recording apparatuses that use a roll assembly.