CARRIAGE MECHANISM OF PRINTER

A carriage mechanism of a printer comprising a carriage frame (1); a print circuit board (4) mounted on said carriage frame (1) and having an exposed portion of wiring (5) and a plurality portion of guide holes (6); a cable (11) having an exposed portion of wiring (12) at one end thereof, said exposed portion of wiring (12) being elecrically connectable with said exposed portion of wiring (5) of said print circuit board (4); an inked ribbon feed mechanism (7) mounted on said carriage frame (1), said inked ribbon feed mechanism (7) having guide projections (9) to be inserted in said holes (6) and a pluralitv of elastic hooks (10) for fastening said carriage frame (1) said guide proyections (9) and a plurality of elastic hooks (10) respectively are provided on reverse side of said inked nbbon feed mechanism (7) a cable fixing mechanism having a flexible film (16) connected to a movable body to be superimposed over the end of the flexible cable (11) and fixed thereto, one end of the flexible film (16) is shaped as the end of the flexible cable (11) and the other end is progressively narrower to its end and projects toward folded portion of the flexible cable (11) as a free end.