Printer

Abstract

The invention relates to a printer (1) comprising a media unit (26) which can move relative to a printing unit (4). Until now, difficulties in aligning the media unit (26) in the printer (1) always resulted in a poor printing quality. To rectify this, the invention provides that the printing unit (4) is designed so that it can move inside the housing, and means are provided for aligning the printing unit (4) with the media unit (26) so that the printing unit (4) and the media unit (26) can be aligned with one another when the media unit (26) is pushed in the direction of insertion (11). A resilient element (13) enables the printing unit to be advantageously tensioned, in a manner that equalizes tolerances, against the support (11) of the media unit (26) in an operating position. This enables an advantageous equalization of work tolerances and positional tolerances, and the position of the print head (5) relative to the medium to be printed ensures a printing quality that is always very good.

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