Modular work surface of an image forming apparatus
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsMark Penke, Donald Brown
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Abstract
A image forming apparatus for providing an enlarged user work space. The image forming apparatus includes a printing module with a housing, a scanning module positioned above the printing module, a modular work surface positioned above the printing module, and a document handler positioned above the modular work surface. The modular work surface includes at least a unitary central work surface. The central work surface includes a top surface having a width dimension extending in a horizontal sheet feed direction, the width dimension of the top surface of the central work surface being larder than a width dimension of the housing of the printing module.
Claims20
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a printing module including a housing with at least a width dimension extending in a horizontal sheet feed direction;
- a scanning module positioned above the printing module;
- a substantially planar modular work surface positioned above the printing module, the modular work surface including at least a unitary central work surface;
- and
- a document handler positioned above the modular work surface,
- wherein the central work surface includes a top surface with at least a width dimension extending in the horizontal sheet feed direction, the width dimension of the top surface of the central work surface being larger than the width dimension of the housing of the printing module.
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a printing module including a housing that forms a static footprint and a dynamic footprint of the housing;
- a scanning module positioned above the printing module;
- a substantially planar modular work surface positioned above the printing module, the modular work surface including at least a unitary central work surface that forms a static footprint of the central work surface;
- and
- a document handler positioned above the modular work surface,
- wherein the static footprint of the central work surface is larger than the static footprint of the housing of the printing module.
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a printing module including a housing that forms a static footprint and a dynamic footprint of the housing;
- at least one of a finishing module, a stacking module and a sheet supplying module operatively connected to the printing module to form a second dynamic footprint;
- a scanning module positioned above the printing module;
- a substantially planar modular work surface positioned above the printing module, the modular work surface including at least a unitary central work surface that forms a static footprint of the central work surface;
- and
- a document handler positioned above the modular work surface,
- wherein the static footprint of the central work surface is larger than the dynamic footprint of the housing and the second dynamic footprint.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.