Cutter module positioning for full-bleed printing
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsIsabel Sanz Ananos, Martin Urrutia Nebreda
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Abstract
A printer comprises at least one longitudinal cutter module to cut a print medium in a longitudinal direction with respect to a print media advance direction. The printer comprises a controller to position the longitudinal cutter module along a direction perpendicular to the print media advance direction. The controller is to receive a full-bleed print job and in response to receive print job to position the at least one cutter module along the direction perpendicular to the print media advance direction. The longitudinal cutter module is positioned by the controller to longitudinally cut the print medium.
Claims11
A printer comprising:
- at least one longitudinal cutter module to cut a print medium in a longitudinal direction with respect to a print media advance direction;
- and
- a controller to position the cutter module along a direction perpendicular to the print media advance direction;
- wherein
- the controller is to receive a full-bleed print job and, as the received print job is printed on the print medium to realize a print area on which the print medium has been printed, position the at least one cutter module along the direction perpendicular to the print media advance direction based on at least one detected corresponding margin of the print area to longitudinally cut the print medium to produce full-bleed output corresponding to the received print job.
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a controller in a printer, a request for a full-bleed print output of a print job;
- printing, by the printer, the print job onto a print medium to realize a print area on which the print medium has been printed;
- detecting, by the printer, at least one margin of the print area, as the print job is printed onto the print medium;
- positioning, by the controller, at least one longitudinal cutter module in the printer along a direction perpendicular to a print media advance direction based on the detected at least one margin of the print area;
- and
- cutting, by the longitudinal cutter module, the print medium to produce the full-bleed print output of the print job.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.