Abstract: A display unit includes a slide mechanism slidable in a lateral or vertical direction to a housing. A maintenance opening formed in the housing can be covered and uncovered. When the opening is uncovered, a user can access at least apart of a print section in the housing from the opening and perform maintenance.

Abstract: A modular printer includes a frame. A housing in which the frame is housed has an operatively upper and an operatively lower cover and defines a print media inlet at one end between the covers and a print media outlet at an opposite end between the covers. An inlet roller assembly is mounted on the frame proximate the print media inlet for feeding a web of print media into the housing. A pair of opposed inkjet printhead assemblies are mounted on the frame downstream of the inlet roller assembly to define a printing zone between the printhead assemblies. The inlet roller assembly is configured to feed the web of print media between the printhead assemblies. An exit roller assembly is mounted on the frame proximate the print media outlet to feed the web of print media from the outlet. Each inkjet printhead assembly includes a series of substantially identical printhead modules, the modules of each printhead assembly being a mirrored replication of the modules of the other printhead assembly.

Abstract: A mounting assembly for a printhead assembly is described that can allow dynamic nozzle and drop placement adjustment in one or more directions.

Abstract: A print media stacker assembly comprises a housing having an opening therein. A tray, disposed within the housing downstream of a feeder, has a front lip, a collecting portion, and a back wall. A stopper lever is in operative relationship with the tray a distance upstream from the back wall. The stopper lever has a first position in which the stopper lever prevents media sheets from passing beyond the stopper lever and a second position in which the stopper lever permits media sheets to pass beyond the stopper lever.

Abstract: Multi-functional image forming devices that may include a base color laser printer comprising a front side, a back side, a top, and a bottom. The color laser printer may further include a media path, a laser printhead, and a plurality of image forming units. A scanning mechanism comprising a scan bed may be mounted on the top of the base color laser printer. In one embodiment, the media path includes a first section positioned within the base color laser printer and a second section that extends between the scanning mechanism and the top of the base color laser printer. In one embodiment, the scanning mechanism is pivotally mounted to the base color laser printer and movable to access the second section of the media path.

Abstract: Provided is a modular printer assembly which includes a housing having upper and lower covers, a first side wall and a second, opposed side wall, as well as a loading mechanism which includes a drive assembly with a traversing mechanism engaged with the drive assembly, and a pair of endless belts and roller assemblies operatively engaged with the traversing mechanism, so that actuation of the drive assembly displaces the traversing mechanism to push, or pull, the belt and roller mechanisms farther apart, or closer together, respectively. The printer assembly also includes a print engine having two opposed arcuate printheads each with a radius of curvature which approximates a radius of inlet rollers with each roller at least partially received in said curvature of each respective printhead, the print engine configured to print ink followed by a fixative onto the media operatively fed between the printhead.

Abstract: A display device for use as a computer monitor, the display device comprising: a flat panel display for displaying images from a computer; a printer, the printer including: (a) a printer controller configured to receive print data in a compressed form, decompress the print data, and output dot data based on the decompressed print data; (b) a pagewidth printhead for receiving the dot data and printing onto print media.

Abstract: A method of drying a printed media web in a printing system, the method including the steps of: passing a media web along a media path from a media cartridge, past a printhead, and over an opening; using at least one fan to force air past an heating element provided within a first chamber located on one side of the opening, the first chamber adapted to direct the heated air through the opening into a second drying chamber located on the other side of the opening; and, driving the printed media web along the media path such that the printed media web extends from the media path, via the opening, into the second drying chamber which receives subsequent portions of the printed media web as the media web is driven along the media path.

Abstract: The present invention is an image recording apparatus comprising an image recording unit which records an image by ejecting ink drops with respect to an recording medium, a conveyance unit conveys the recording medium at the time of image recording by the conveying driving means, a recording medium feeding unit which feeds the recording medium to the conveyance unit, and a particulate dust preventing unit which has a partitioning member partitioning space in the image recording apparatus into an image recording region GR at which image recording is carried out by the image recording unit, and a paper feeding region FR at which the recording medium is fed by the recording medium feeding unit, and which can carry out image recording in high image quality and with high reliability, without deteriorating the conveying ability for a recording medium.

Abstract: A printer unit is provided having a body with a media input assembly for supporting media to be printed, and securing means for releasable engagement with complementary securing means on an image reader unit, and a print engine with a printhead and a control system to control the operation of the printhead. The body is shaped for nesting with the image reader unit such that the securing means are positioned for releasable engagement with the complementary securing means.

Abstract: A hand-held micro-fluid ejection device for ejecting a fluid onto a substrate surface in a plurality of physical orientations between the ejection device and a substrate surface, and methods for controlling the geometric accuracy of printing using a hand-held printing apparatus. Various spatial and dynamic orientations of the ejection device are measured, such as rotation angle, yaw angle, and velocity and acceleration vectors. Threshold limits are established for the orientations and printing is disabled if the measured values exceed the threshold limits.

Abstract: A printer configured to receive documents to be printed from a computer system, the printer including an interface, and being configured to: receive, via the interface, input from a user indicative of a print command; send, from the printer to the c A printing and display device comprising: a flat panel display for displaying images from a computer; and a printer, the printer including at least two the printheads, the printheads being disposed on either side of a path through which print media is fed for printing, thereby enabling substantially simultaneous printing of both sides of the print media.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus has an interior cavity therein. A carriage is disposed within the interior cavity and is movable through a length of travel within the interior cavity. A cartridge is carried by the carriage. A swept volume includes the profile of the carriage and cartridge extended along the length of the carriage rod a distance equal to the length of travel of the carriage. A media tray is at least partially disposed within the cavity.

Abstract: A present invention provides an ink housing container inhibiting a resin used to form a layer located outside the innermost layer from flowing into a position other than a predetermined one. In an ink tank having an ink container and a cover member, the ink container is formed by a plurality of layers by means of molding. A flow-in preventing portion is formed at a cover member-side end of a side wall of an inner layer one of a plurality of layers forming the ink container. The flow-in preventing portion is formed so as to project from the cover member-side end.

Abstract: A printer unit includes a print roll and ink supply unit. The print roll and ink supply unit includes a print roll former around which is wound print media. The former defines a core portion in which ink is stored. A platen unit is configured to support print media fed from the print roll and ink supply unit. A print head unit includes a printhead configured to print upon print media supported by the platen unit. A drive power distribution unit interconnects each of the aforementioned units and includes a motor configured to feed the print media between the platen unit and the print head unit for printing. A cutting arrangement is configured to cut the printed print media from the remaining unprinted print media.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus in which unintentional operation of the operation unit does not occur when sheets on which images have been formed or sheets prior to image forming or the like are placed on the top surface of the main body of the apparatus. The operation unit and a bearing are connected by a linking member. The operation unit can be disposed further forward than the carriage, so the distance between the operator and the operation unit is small, the operation is thereby made easier. The operation unit can be disposed closer to the center of the apparatus than the position of the carriage when it has moved as far as possible to the operation unit side, so the width of the whole recording apparatus can be made narrower. The operation unit rotates about a rotation shaft, so no matter what specific position the operation unit is located in, the operation unit is lower than the top surface of the apparatus main body. Therefore, when sheets on which images have been.

Abstract: The invention provides for a modular printer including a housing having an upper and lower cover, with a first side wall having an air duct with an air inlet, and a second side wall defining air exit vents, so that warm air can be ducted over print media passing through the housing. The printer further includes entry and exit media feed roller assemblies at respective opposite ends of the housing for feeding the print media through the housing. Also included is a print engine having two opposing arcuate printheads having a radius of curvature which approximates that of the radius of the rollers. The printhead are at least partially received between opposite halves of the rollers of the entry roller assembly. The print engine is configured to print ink followed by a fixative onto the print media, with the feed assemblies configured to feed the media through the housing at a predetermined rate so that said media only leaves the housing when the fixative has dried.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes: a housing which constitutes an appearance of a recording apparatus body; and an electronic substrate which is vertically disposed along an inner side surface of the housing. Here, an air supply hole and an air exhaust hole are formed on a side surface portion of the housing corresponding to a lower portion and an upper portion of the electronic substrate so that an air-flow path for external air is formed in an installation region in which the electronic substrate is provided.

Abstract: A hand held personal digital assistant including: an information storage device; a display; a printer including a pagewidth printhead wherein said printhead is an inkjet printhead; a capping mechanism for capping the printhead when not in use; and a user interface allowing a user to: selectively retrieve and display information from said storage device on said display; print said information using said printer; and enter and store new information in said information storage device.

Abstract: A recording device for effecting recording on a recording material by a recording head, said recording device including a recording unit including a reciprocally movable carriage for carrying the recording head, a platen for supporting a recording material at a position opposed to said carriage, and a feeding roller, disposed upstream of said platen, for feeding the recording material, a recording chassis supporting said carriage, said platen and said feeding roller, and a sheet feeding unit including a feeding path for feeding the recording material to said feeding roller from a plurality of feeding portions, and a side chassis supporting said feeding path at both lateral sides with respect to a moving direction of the recording material, whereby said recording chassis of said recording unit and said side chassis of said sheet feeding unit are fixed to each other.

Abstract: An ink cartridge carrier for mounting an ink cartridge that includes a flange includes a backplane, a cradle fixed to the backplane and configured for receiving the ink cartridge, and a cover rotatably mounted to the backplane. The cover includes a top board, and a slide way extending from the top board for the flange to be slid along and supported thereupon. One of the cradle and the cover includes a clasp, the other one of the cradle and the cover includes a clipping portion defining a clipping hole. The clasp is capable of being clipped into the clipping hole.

Abstract: An image-recording device including a carriage, a recording head, a guide rail, a flexible flat cable, a flexible ink supply tubes, and a top cover. The recording head is provided at the carriage. The guide rail extends in a widthwise direction of a recording medium fed in a feeding direction perpendicular to the widthwise direction. The flat cable has a broad surface extending in a horizontal direction and bent into U-shape so that an upper region of the flat cable faces the top cover whereas a lower region of the flat cable faces the base. The carriage is reciprocally movable in the widthwise direction. The flat cable is oriented upward from the carriage at a prescribed angle with respect to a horizontal plane and extends in the widthwise direction, so that at least the U-shaped bent portion of the flat cable is in continuous contact with the top cover.

Abstract: The invention provides for a print roll for a camera having an internal printer. The print roll includes an ink reservoir section with a core portion configured to house ink for the printer, and a paper roll section positioned about the ink reservoir section, said paper roll section operatively locating paper for the printer. The print roll also includes an outer casing having two sections each locating a pinch roller to form a pinch roller assembly when the two sections are fitted together about the paper roll section, the pinch roller assembly configured to operatively feed paper from the paper roll to the printer.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a sheet is provided. The image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main body, a unit which can be inserted into the apparatus main body, a locking device which locks the unit to the apparatus main body when the unit is in a predetermined inserted state in the apparatus main body, and a protrusion member which protrudes from an outer surface of the unit or from an outer surface of the apparatus main body in a state in which the unit is inserted into the apparatus main body but not locked to the apparatus main body by the locking device.

Abstract: A computer monitor is provided having a flat panel display for displaying images and a printhead disposed adjacent a lower portion of the computer monitor. The monitor is configured such that print media to be printed is fed manually into a feed path that directs the print media from a region adjacent the upper edge of the flat panel display, past the printhead for printing, then out of the monitor adjacent a lower edge of the flat panel display.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body having an image forming part that forms an image by scanning a recording head discharging droplets of a recording liquid. A paper eject part is located in an upper portion of the apparatus body for stacking recording papers having the image formed thereon by the image forming part. An image reading part is located above the paper eject part. The apparatus body accommodates a maintenance and recovery mechanism and a waste discharge receiving part therein on both ends of a scanning range of the recording head. An outer covering of the apparatus body has a shape in which a portion corresponding to at least one of the maintenance and recovery mechanism and the waste discharge receiving part is recessed relative to other portions of the outer covering.

Abstract: A cabinet for a printing system for producing wallpaper printed on a media web, the cabinet comprising: a support adapted to hold at least one media cartridge, containing the media web, and to hold a printhead; at least one guide to direct the media web past the printhead; a further support adapted to hold at least one ink reservoir in fluid communication with the printhead; at least one module adapted to hold at least one processor; a user interface to forward user instructions to the at least one processor; a drying compartment to dry printed wallpaper; and a receiving stage to receive printed wallpaper onto a roller.

Abstract: An inkjet printer comprising: a body; a first gear assembly mounted to the body so as to cooperate with a motor gear for driving rotation of the first gear assembly, the first gear assembly having a code feature; and a second gear assembly mounted to the body so as to cooperate with the first gear assembly to be rotatable therewith, the second gear assembly, in use, cooperating with a capper for capping a printhead so that the rotation of the second gear assembly moves the capper out of and into its capping position, wherein the code feature of the first gear assembly is arranged to cooperate with a holding feature of a mounting arrangement used to mount the second gear assembly to the body, the code feature being configured so that the cooperation with the holding feature maintains the first gear assembly at a predetermined position during the mounting of the second gear assembly.

Abstract: An ejection tray includes a container that contains a plurality of stacked recording sheets printed by a printing unit of an image forming apparatus, a movable cover mounted on the container, and a sorting member that sorts out a desired recording sheet from the recording sheets stacked in the container. The desired recording sheet sorted out in the container is allowed to be taken out when the cover is opened.

Abstract: A storage housing for storing a recording head having inside and outside surfaces and operable to perform a recording operation by an ink which is supplied to the recording head through an ink inlet opening in the inside surface and which is ejected through nozzles opening in the outside surface. The storage housing including: first and second bodies which include first and second sealing portions, respectively, and which are opposed to each other with the inside and outside surfaces of the recording head being interposed between the first and second bodies, such that the ink inlet is sealed by the first sealing portion and such that the nozzles are sealed by the second sealing portion. One of the first and second bodies includes an arm movable to attach and detach the one of the first and second bodies to and from the recording head.

Abstract: A layered structure is provided with a recording unit, a reading unit whose back edge is connected to the recording unit via a pivot member, a support member having (i) a connecting portion that is connected pivotally to the reading unit, (ii) a contact portion that contacts a counterface surface of the recording unit facing the reading unit, and (iii) a support column that positions the contact portion at a position a certain distance from the connecting portion, a biased member that is biased against the support member in a forward direction, and a stopping portion formed on the counterface surface to stop the contact portion contacting the counterface surface from being displaced along the counterface surface.

Abstract: An ink-jet printer, including: a casing; a head unit which is disposed in the casing and which includes (a) a carriage that moves reciprocally relative to a recording medium and (b) a recording head mounted on the carriage for ejecting ink droplets from a plurality of nozzle holes; and a pair of skirt members which are provided respectively on opposite sides of the carriage as seen in a carriage-moving direction in which the carriage moves, so as to protrude outwardly from respective first side surfaces of the carriage that are opposed to each other in the carriage-moving direction and which are flush with a nozzle surface of the recording head in which the plurality of nozzles are open, for rectifying air flows which are generated as a result of the movement of the carriage and which flow on the recording medium, each of the pair of skirt members protruding, in the carriage-moving direction, at opposite end portions thereof as seen in a perpendicular direction that is perpendicular to the carriage-moving dir

Abstract: A printing cartridge that has a roll of print media, a tubular former on which the roll of print media is wound, the former having a plurality of ink supply containers for different types of ink, a casing with a pair of molded covers which releasably fasten together to encase the roll of print media. The casing bears one or more optically readable indicia relating to the length of print media and the types of ink.

Abstract: A device for positioning an object in an opening of a frame in a predetermined position with respect to a plane extending in the direction of the plane of the frame (plane X-Y), wherein the object includes a first spherical segment at a first side and a second spherical segment at a second side situated opposite the first side, wherein at least one positioning means which, after placing the object, exerts a force with a component in the radial and tangential direction on the object at the first spherical segment, the tangential component reaching a minimum in the situation in which the object is situated in the predetermined position, and a recess in which the second spherical segment can be pressed by the positioning means.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided with a openable/closable conveyance cover enabling exposure of a recording paper conveyance path on which recording paper is conveyed, on a top of a printer part carrying out recording on the recording paper, and has a conveyance cover lock part configured to fix a state in which the conveyance cover is opened, when recording paper jam occurs.

Abstract: This invention relates to a recording apparatus, comprising an opening delivering a recording medium after completion of recording and a cover capable of closing the opening in moving pivotally and a holding rib formed at the cover for holding a rear end as well as both sides of the delivered recording medium. The holding rib comes to be exposed when the cover is opened.

Abstract: A print engine includes a printhead assembly. The printhead assembly includes an ink ejection printhead. A chassis assembly includes a molding defining ink supply channels for supplying respective inks to the printhead. A print roll cartridge includes a core defining internal ink reservoirs and print media wound upon the core. The cartridge is configured to be releasably mounted to the chassis so that ink from the reservoirs is supplied to respective ink supply channels before being printed upon the print media.

Abstract: A printing and display device comprising: a flat panel display for displaying images from a computer; a stand for holding the flat panel display in an operative position; and a printer, the printer including a printhead for printing onto paper; wherein the stand includes at least one receptacle configured to accept at least one replaceable ink cartridge for supplying ink to the printer.

Abstract: A one-molding frame of an image forming apparatus includes a feeding part to feed sheets of paper one by one, a printing unit with a printing module provided along a paper feeding passage to form an image on the paper fed from the feeding module, and an ejecting unit with an ejecting module to eject and stack the paper after the printing unit forms the image on the paper. The printing module includes an array type inkjet head with a nozzle unit having a length corresponding to a width of the paper, and the printing unit includes at least one aligning mark to align the inkjet head. The one-molding frame improves an alignment precision between the one-molding frame and the inkjet head and a head gap precision between the inkjet head and the paper. Further, a manufacturing cost of the image forming apparatus can be reduced by employing the one-molding frame.

Abstract: A cartridge for a digital photofinishing system having a digital processor and a printer arranged to receive drive signals from the digital processor; the cartridge being arranged to be mounted removably in juxtaposition to the printer and comprising a source of printing fluid to be delivered on demand to the printer, and the cartridge incorporating means for coupling with a print media feed drive mechanism.

Abstract: A thin MFP includes a scanning module, a printing module, a paper advance module, a paper switch module and a paper-guiding module all disposed in a casing thereof. Both the scanning module and the printing module are fixed on the same plane. The paper advance module has a first paper advance box and a second paper advance box for guiding paper into the casing, respectively. The paper switch module mates with the paper advance module for selectively guiding paper from the first paper advance box or the second paper advance box. The paper-guiding module mates with the paper switch module for guiding paper from the paper switch module to the scanning module for scanning or to the printing module for printing. Whereby, the size of the thin MFP is reduced by changing the disposition of the scanning module and the printing module and sharing the paper-guiding module.

Abstract: A personal digital assistant includes a body containing a memory for storing the personal digital assistant information, a printhead for printing stored information, a display for displaying the stored information. The body includes a bay for receiving a print media cartridge.

Abstract: A work device, including: a reciprocable movable member; a lengthy member connected to the movable member at its first-end-side portion, so as to extend in a first direction, and is elastically curved toward a second direction different from the first direction so that its second-end-side portion is fixed at a prescribed position, the lengthy member being operable to follow a reciprocating movement of the movable member; and a guide member having a first guide surface extending along the second direction, a second guide surface extending in a third direction intersecting the second direction, and a third guide surface contiguous to the first and second guide surfaces, wherein the third guide surface is configured such that a boundary point in the lengthy member transits on the third guide surface from the first guide surface toward the second guide surface when the lengthy member contacting the first guide surface moves so as to come into contact with the second guide surface following the movable member, the

Abstract: This invention relates to a cover assembly for a cradle unit of a pagewidth print engine. The cover assembly defines a docking port for a refill unit configured to refill a cartridge unit of the print engine. The cartridge unit is housed in the cradle. The docking port includes a rim portion, engagement means and a push rod. The rim portion is for receiving a base portion of the refill unit so that the refill unit is able to pass through the cover assembly, in use, to dock with the cartridge unit. The engagement means is located within the rim portion, the engagement means being configured to engage the refill unit to retain the refill unit securely in position to facilitate refilling of the cartridge unit. The push rod extends through a hole in the rim portion for operatively actuating the refill unit to incrementally dispense ink.

Abstract: There is disclosed an image recording apparatus having a lower body portion, an upper body portion, a guide, a first engager disposed in the upper body portion, and a second engager disposed in the guide. The lower body portion includes a curved feed pathway, an image recording device, and a recording medium feeder which feeds one by one a plurality of recording media as stacked, into the feed pathway and toward the image recording device. The upper body portion includes an image reading device which portion is disposed above the lower body portion and openable with respect to the lower body portion by being displaced upward. The guide which defines at least a part of the feed pathway, and is removably placed on the lower body portion. The first engager is engageable with the second engager so as to prevent the guide from coming off of the apparatus at least in a direction to an external side of the apparatus, while the upper body portion is closed with respect to the lower body portion.

Abstract: A support structure for an image processing apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus has an apparatus body, a base provided at a lower portion of the apparatus body for supporting the body, and an image processing unit disposed inside the apparatus body or attached thereto. The processing unit is capable of effecting at least either an image forming operation or an image reading operation. The support structure includes a grounding portion formed at and integrally with a bottom of the apparatus base for coming into contact with a contact-object surface such as a floor surface at at least three positions thereof thereby to support the base parallel with the contact-object surface and includes also an elastic projecting portion formed of a material having greater elasticity than a material forming the grounding portion. The elastic projecting portion has a ground-contacting face which projects from a bottom face of the grounding portion under a non-grounded condition of the support structure.

Abstract: An inkjet printer includes a carrier carrying a print head and is capable of sliding reciprocally along a path, an ink reservoir, a plurality of ink tubes, a holding seat and a pivot member. The reservoir supplies ink to the print head via the ink tubes. Each of plurality of ink tubes has two opposite portions connected to the ink reservoir and the print head respectively. The pivot member is mounted rotatably on the holding seat, and has a clamping unit. The ink tubes further have a plurality of tube sections between the opposite portions and clamped securely by the clamping unit.

Abstract: An apparatus for changing ink cartridges of a printing apparatus having a transport apparatus for flat goods, a pressing apparatus and a printing module. The transport apparatus is disposed in a stationary manner in the printing apparatus opposite a pressing apparatus which presses an item of mail onto a transport belt. The transport belt, in a transport region, acts with a predetermined adhesive friction on a part of a surface of the item of mail which is not printed but is close to a region to be printed. A change position for ink cartridges is located before the transport region on a front side of the printing apparatus or above the transport region of an appropriately constructed transport apparatus.

Abstract: An inkjet printer unit for use in a network environment comprising: a body having; at least one media input tray for supplying one or more sheets of media for printing; a print engine for printing an image on a sheet of media, the print engine including a removable pagewidth inkjet printhead; and a delivery passage for delivering a sheet of media from the at least one media input tray to the print engine for printing; wherein the base of the body is configured to receive at least one auxiliary media input tray for supplying one or more sheets of media for printing, and an opening is provided in the base to receive a sheet of media from the auxiliary media input tray for delivery to the print engine via the delivery passage.

Abstract: It is rendered possible to attach and detach an inkjet line head chassis to and from a controller housing in an inkjet recording apparatus. To this end, the inkjet recording apparatus in which the inkjet line head chassis (2) is detachably attached to a portion of the controller housing (1) comprises: a bracket (4) mounted to the controller housing and movable upward and downward, the bracket supporting the inkjet line head chassis so that the chassis can be attached and detached unidirectionally; a drive plate (18) mounted in the controller housing so as to be rotatable in a plane parallel to a direction in which the bracket is moved vertically; a link mechanism for coupling the drive plate and the bracket to move the bracket vertically when the dive plate is rotated; and a fluid cylinder (19) coupled to the drive plate.