Apparatus for Changing Ink Cartridges
AssigneeFrancotyp-Postalia GmbH
InventorWolfgang Muhl
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Abstract
An apparatus for changing ink cartridges of a printing apparatus having a transport apparatus for flat goods, a pressing apparatus and a printing module. The transport apparatus is disposed in a stationary manner in the printing apparatus opposite a pressing apparatus which presses an item of mail onto a transport belt. The transport belt, in a transport region, acts with a predetermined adhesive friction on a part of a surface of the item of mail which is not printed but is close to a region to be printed. A change position for ink cartridges is located before the transport region on a front side of the printing apparatus or above the transport region of an appropriately constructed transport apparatus.
Claims8
In a printing apparatus including a stationary transport apparatus with a transport belt for flat goods, a pressing apparatus disposed opposite the transport apparatus for pressing an item of mail onto the transport belt, and a printing module, the transport belt acting in a transport region with a predetermined adhesive friction on a part of a surface of the item of mail not being printed but being close to a region to be printed, the improvement comprising:
- an apparatus for changing ink cartridges of the printing apparatus, the apparatus including a change position for the ink cartridges disposed before the transport region on a front side of the printing apparatus or above the transport region of the transport apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.