Single pass multi-color printer with improved cutting apparatus and method

In a printing apparatus having a plurality of printing stations arranged along a path of movement of receiver media, a method of severing prints from receiver media being printed, the method comprising:

• moving the receiver media in a process direction past the printing stations, the printing stations recording images upon the receiver sheet;
• and
• operating a cutting mechanism having one or more cutting elements to cut the receiver media along a transverse direction to separate a previously printed image on the receiver media from a portion of the receiver media being currently printed, the cutting mechanism including a clamping member located proximate the one or more cutting elements for stopping movement of the receiver sheet downstream of the clamping mechanism to provide for a substantially square cut relative to the process direction of the receiver media.