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US 2010/0187752 A1Published application
Print media path
OwnerKevin T. Kersey, Timothy J. Carlininventors
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Abstract
In one embodiment, a print media path includes: a first media path having a single lane for guiding a single strip of print media toward a print zone; and a second media path separate from the first media path and having two lanes for guiding two strips of print media simultaneously toward the print zone.
Claims17
A print media path in a printer, comprising:
- a first media path having a single lane for guiding a single strip of print media toward a print zone;
- and
- a second media path separate from the first media path and having two lanes for guiding two strips of print media simultaneously toward the print zone.
A print media path in a printer, comprising:
- a first media path having a single lane for guiding a single media web toward a print zone;
- a second media path substantially parallel to the first media path, the second media path having two lanes positioned side by side and separated by a divider for guiding two strips of a slit media web simultaneously toward the print zone;
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- the first and second media paths diverging from a single media path at an upstream location and converging into a single media path at a downstream location near the print zone.
1 more element
A print media path in a printer, comprising:
- a print zone in which a marking material may be applied to a print media;
- a slitter upstream from the print zone for slitting into strips print media moving toward the print zone along a media feed path;
- a pair of media transport rollers between the slitter and the print zone, the rollers mounted to a shaft that extends across the media feed path, the rollers rotatable with the shaft for moving print media along the media feed path and the rollers movable axially along the shaft for forming a gap between strips of slit media;
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- a shifter operatively coupled to the transport rollers for simultaneously shifting both rollers axially along the drive shaft, while engaging strips of print media, from an inboard position to an outboard position in which the rollers are farther apart than in the inboard position, to form a gap between media strips.
2 more elements
A print media path in a printer, comprising:
- a print zone in which a marking material may be applied to a print media;
- a slitter upstream from the print zone for slitting print media moving toward the print zone into strips;
- a media transport for moving print media through the slitter toward the print zone;
- a media separator between the slitter and the print zone downstream from the first media transport roller, the media separator operative:
- while the media transport is moving print media toward the print zone, to stop a leading part of the print media from moving toward the print zone such that a buckle forms in a trailing part of the print media between the separator and the media transport;
- forming a gap between buckled print media strips;
- and then
- moving the leading part of the print media toward the print zone.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.