A printer containing at least one support for a roll of printing paper web, a printer station including a print head, means for conveying the printing paper web from the roll to the printer station, driving means adapted for selectively driving the conveying means in a downstream conveying direction or an upstream conveying direction, a cutting station downstream of the printer station for cutting the printing paper web, means for detecting the passage of an end location on the end portion of the printing paper supplied from the roll and conveyed in the downstream direction to the printer station, controlling means for controlling the print head including means for entering and storing a printing job, the controlling means further including means for receiving a signal from the detecting means indicating the passage of the end location of the roll of the paper web and then to interrupt the printing job and to deactivate the driving means so as to hold the printed paper web upstream of the cutting means for a drying period, and after that drying period to operate the driving means again for conveying the dried paper web portion located upstream of the cutting means in the upstream direction to discharge it from the printer.
