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US 2006/0133880 A1Published application
Printer with reciprocating carriage and a two-stage frame structure
AssigneeOce-Technologies B.V.
InventorsBarry Goeree, Henk-Jan Zwiers, Frank Nottelman
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Abstract
A printer including: a frame composed of a lower frame and an upper frame supported on the lower frame, a platen rotatably supported in the upper frame for advancing a recording medium, a guide rail extending in parallel with an axial direction (Y) of the platen, a carriage guided at the guide rail and carrying a printhead, and a drive mechanism adapted to drive the carriage reciprocatingly along the guide rail, wherein the drive mechanism is directly supported in said axial direction (Y) by the lower frame.
Claims6
A printer comprising:
- a frame including a lower frame and an upper frame supported on the lower frame,
- a platen rotatably supported in the upper frame for advancing a recording medium,
- a guide rail extending in parallel with an axial direction (Y) of the platen,
- a carriage guided at the guide rail and carrying a printhead, and
- a drive mechanism adapted to drive the carriage reciprocatingly along the guide rail,
- wherein the drive mechanism is directly supported in said axial direction (Y) by the lower frame.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.