| 摘要 |
A printing apparatus for printing characters, figures, or images by ejecting fine liquid from a plurality of nozzles to form fine particles on a print medium. The printing apparatus includes: a conveyor-belt driving system in which a conveyor belt with a linear scale is used, the conveyor belt having a magnetic layer including a magnetic pattern serving as a linear scale on the inner circumference of the conveyor belt along the direction of conveyance of the print medium; scale-pattern detection unit that detects the scale pattern of the linear scale on the conveyor belt; print-timing determination unit that determines the timing to print on the print medium according to the scale pattern detected by the scale-pattern detection unit; and printing unit that prints on the print medium at the print timing determined by the print-timing determination unit.
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