Print media pick and feed
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsEthan Lee, Devin S Uehling
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Abstract
A system to pick print media from a media tray and feed the print media to a media path includes a pick roller to contact the print media and pick the print media from the media tray, a motor to rotate the pick roller, and a controller to operate the motor to rotate the pick roller in a first mode to pick the print media from the media tray and operate the motor to rotate the pick roller in a second mode different than the first mode to feed the print media to the media path.
Claims15
A system to pick print media from a media tray and feed the print media to a media path, comprising:
- a pick roller to contact the print media and pick the print media from the media tray;
- a motor to rotate the pick roller;
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- a controller to operate the motor to rotate the pick roller in a first mode to pick the print media from the media tray and operate the motor to rotate the pick roller in a second mode different than the first mode to feed the print media to the media path.
A printer, comprising:
- a media tray to hold a quantity of print media;
- and
- a pick assembly to pick a sheet of the print media from the media tray and feed the sheet of the print media to a media path,
- wherein a pick roller of the pick assembly is to rotate with a substantially constant velocity to pick the sheet of the print media from the media tray and rotate with a substantially constant torque to feed the sheet of the print media to the media path.
A method of picking and feeding print media, comprising:
- contacting print media with a pick roller and picking the print media from a media tray, including rotating the pick roller in a first manner;
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- after picking the print media, maintaining the contacting of the print media with the pick roller and feeding the print media to a media path, including rotating the pick roller in a second manner different than the first manner.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.