Media holders
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsVictor Lorente Tejero, Ricard Ejarque Montalvo, Albert Estella Aguerri, David Munoz Navarro
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Abstract
An apparatus is disclosed herein. The apparatus comprises a carriage to move laterally in a scanning direction over a platen, a scan beam to support the carriage over the platen, a mechanism to move the scan beam vertically, and a media holder. The media holder comprises a central portion to hold a media on the platen, a first end couplable to the platen at a coupling position, and a second end couplable to the scan beam such that the second end moves vertically along with the scan beam.
Claims11
An apparatus comprising:
- a carriage to move laterally in a scanning direction over a platen;
- a scan beam to support the carriage over the platen;
- a mechanism to move the scan beam vertically;
- and
- a media holder comprising:
- a central portion to hold a media on the platen,
- a first end couplable to the platen at a coupling position, and
- a second end couplable to the scan beam such that the second end moves vertically along with the scan beam,
- wherein the first end and the second end are provided at vertically opposed ends of the media holder, and
- wherein the media holder comprises an elastic material and the media holder changes its length when the mechanism moves the scan beam vertically.
A media holder comprising:
- a central portion to hold a media on a platen of a printing device;
- a first end releasably couplable to the platen at a coupling position;
- and
- a second end releasably couplable to a vertically moveable scan beam that supports a carriage over the platen, such that the second end moves vertically along with the scan beam,
- wherein the first end and the second end are provided at vertically opposed ends of the media holder, and
- wherein the central portion comprises an elastic material and the central portion compresses when the scan beam moves vertically downwardly.
A method comprising:
- loading media on a printing apparatus comprising a media holder;
- holding the media to the platen by a central portion of the media holder;
- coupling a first and second ends of the media holder to a platen and scan beam of the apparatus respectively;
- and
- moving a scan beam vertically based on a thickness of the media, such that the second end moves vertically along with the scan beam, wherein the scan beam supports a printing carriage over the platen.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.