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AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsEric Young, Doug Batten, Nash Steven Stanton, Dean Richtsmeier
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Abstract
According to an example, an apparatus may include an automatic document feeder, printing components, an externally accessible embedded finishing mechanism, an illumination source to direct attention to the embedded finishing mechanism, and a controller. The controller may determine whether a certain condition has been met pertaining to media sheets fed into the automatic document feeder or printed by the printing components, and in response to a determination that the certain condition has been met, may activate the illumination source.
Claims15
An apparatus comprising:
- an automatic document feeder;
- printing components;
- an externally accessible embedded finishing mechanism;
- an outer casing adjacent to the externally accessible embedded finishing mechanism;
- a slot in the outer casing through which sheets of media are to be removed from or inserted into the externally accessible embedded finishing mechanism;
- an illumination source to direct light toward the slot to direct a user's attention to the embedded finishing mechanism;
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- a controller to determine whether a certain condition has been met pertaining to media sheets fed into the automatic document feeder or printed on by the printing components, and in response to a determination that the certain condition has been met, to activate the illumination source to direct light toward the slot.
A printing apparatus comprising:
- an outer casing;
- printing components housed inside the outer casing;
- a stapling unit positioned inside the outer casing to automatically staple sheets of media outputted from the printing components, the outer casing including a slot, and the stapling unit being accessible to media sheets through the slot;
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- an illumination source directed toward the slot to illuminate the slot and direct a user's attention to the stapling unit.
A method comprising:
- determining whether a certain condition has been met pertaining to media sheets fed through an automatic document feeder of a printing apparatus or printed on by printing components of the printing apparatus, the printing apparatus including a slot in an outer casing that is positioned adjacent to an embedded finishing mechanism in the printing apparatus;
- and
- in response to a determination that the certain condition has been met, activating an illumination source to direct light toward the slot to direct a user's attention to the embedded finishing mechanism in the printing apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.