Printing device with cutter

摘要

PCT No. PCT/JP98/00675 Sec. 371 Date Oct. 20, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date Oct. 20, 1998 PCT Filed Feb. 18, 1998 PCT Pub. No. WO98/36881 PCT Pub. Date Aug. 27, 1998The present invention relates to a printing apparatus for use with portable terminals, measuring instruments, etc. and more particularly to a printing apparatus equipped with a paper cutter having a function for cutting recording paper after printing, and it aims at providing a printing apparatus equipped with a paper cutter that is small, light and thin with considerably a simple structure. In order to achieve this object, the printing apparatus equipped with a paper cutter of the invention is so constructed that a portion of a cutter motor (31) fits in a space provided adjacent to a printer motor (25) when a cutter unit (27) and a printer unit (21) are assembled in piles, and, with this structure, either both or one of the motors are able to utilize efficiently spaces or a space available adjacent to the both or the other of the motors, thereby providing the printing apparatus equipped with a paper cutter, which is small, light and thin with considerably a simple structure.