Patent attributes
A printing apparatus includes a transport unit that transports a printing medium to a downstream side of a transport direction, a printing head that performs printing on the printing medium, a drying unit that performs a drying process on the printing medium in the course of a transport path of the printing medium, a transport roller that is disposed further to the downstream side in the transport direction than the drying unit, a de-curl roller that pinches the printing medium with the transport roller, and a curl correcting unit that corrects the curl of the printing medium, and the de-curl roller is positioned at a de-curl position of pinching the printing medium with the transport roller at the time of increasing the temperature of the drying unit to a predetermined temperature.
