PRINTING APPARATUS, AND POSITION ERROR SUPPRESSING METHOD FOR THE PRINTING APPARATUS

摘要

Intended is to provide a printing apparatus or the like for improving a printing precision at the time when a carriage is reciprocated to print. A block (51) on a press is mounted in position on the press. On the other hand, a glass substrate (54) as a printed matter on a printing plate is placed at a position corresponding to the position of the block (51), i.e., the position, at which a pattern transfer is desired from a blanket drum (13). The printing apparatus is characterized in that sliders (52 and 40) for a press carriage (50) and a print carriage (7) to reciprocate along two rails (30) are identical in the arrangement at the presscarriage (50) and in the arrangement at the print carriage (7). With these arrangements, under the same positions just below the blanket drum (13) on the common rails (30), the block (51) and the glass substrate (54) can take identical postures at those positions, even if the straightness of the rails (30) is insufficient, thereby to prevent the printing displacement.