PRINTING APPARATUS

摘要

The present invention provides a printing apparatus for printing a heat shrinkable flattened plastica tubing or other elongate printable medium. The apparatus in one aspect comprises means for feeding at least one printable medium over a printer head, a means to control the sequence of printing operations on the medium, wherein the apparatus further comprises a return feed assembly to return the printable medium printed on a first face thereof inverted into the printing apparatus and off-set relative to where it was first fed passed the print head for printing onto the obverse face of the medium. In a further aspect the apparatus comprises a guide member proximate the printing head and extending transversely to the direction of travel of the printable medium, and having one or more slot-shaped apertures therein, the or each to receive a respective length of printable medium therethrough.