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US 10,300,715 B2Granted
Media support
AssigneeHP Scitex Ltd.
InventorsYaron Dvori, Yuval Dim, Alex Veis
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Abstract
In one example, a media support includes a platen and multiple suctions cups embedded in or an integral part of the platen. Some of the suction cups are arranged in a first part having a first density and some of the suction cups arrange in a second part having a second density less than the first density.
Claims13
A printer, comprising:
- a printing unit;
- multiple pallets to support a print media through a print zone near the printing unit, each pallet smaller than the print media;
- multiple suction cups in each pallet, each suction cup having a port through which air may be evacuated from the suction cup;
- a track to circulate the pallets endlessly through a loading zone in which print media is loaded on to some of the pallets, past the printing unit in a temporary grouping to support the print media through the print zone, and through an unloading zone in which print media is unloaded from the pallets;
- and
- a vacuum source to apply a vacuum to some or all of the suction cups in each pallet in the print zone.
3 more elements
A media support, comprising:
- multiple pallets movable through a temporary grouping to form a platen;
- and
- multiple suction cups in each pallet, each suction cup having a port through which air may be evacuated from the suction cup, wherein each suction cup includes a rim surrounding the port, the rim protruding from a face of the pallet at the perimeter of a flexible ring surrounding the port in a space such that the ring may flex into the space away from the face of the pallet when a media supported on the face of the pallet is sucked onto the rim.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.