Mouse device with a built-in printer

Abstract

A mouse device (10) for use as an input device of a computer (60), and comprising a printer unit (18) provided within a housing (11) of the mouse device for printing based on print information received from the computer (60) on recording paper (21, 121) loaded within the housing (11) of the mouse device. The printer unit (18) comprises a paper loading section (20) in which the recording paper (21, 121) is loadable, a platen roller (23) for feeding the recording paper (21, 121) loaded in the loading section (20), and a print head (24) for printing on the recording paper fed by the platen roller (23). The housing (11) has a discharge port (25) through which the recording paper (21, 121) printed by the print head (24) is discharged by the platen roller (23) out of the housing (11) while taking a substantially vertical attitude. In this arrangement, by loading recording paper (21) of a size appropriate for a memorandum into the housing (11), the printer unit (18) can print on the recording paper (21, 121) any part of data displayed on the computer display screen so as to look to advantage and to be left as a memorandum.

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