Media feed appliances
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsDouglas KNIGHT, Stephen LEDAK, Warren H. PEETZ, III
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Abstract
A media feed appliance can include a media pull guide to guide a print medium through a path while the print medium is manually pulled through the media feed appliance. The media feed appliance can also include a drive gear that is manually driven using frictional contact with the print medium while the print medium is pulled over a surface of the drive gear. The media feed appliance can also include a printer positioning port to position a manually actuatable printer to print on the print medium, wherein the drive gear of the media feed appliance is positioned to mechanically engage with a printer gear when the manually actuatable printer is docked at the port.
Claims15
A media feed appliance, comprising:
- a media pull guide to guide a print medium through a path while the print medium is manually pulled through the media feed appliance;
- a drive gear that is manually driven using frictional contact with the print medium while the print medium is pulled over a surface of the drive gear;
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- a printer positioning port to position a manually actuatable printer to print on the print medium, wherein the drive gear of the media feed appliance is positioned to mechanically engage with a printer gear when the manually actuatable printer is docked at the port.
A media printing system, comprising:
- a manually actuatable printer with a printer gear to drive printing on a print medium;
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- a media feed appliance, comprising:
- a media pull guide to guide a print medium through a path while the print medium is manually pulled through the media feed appliance,
- a drive gear that is manually driven using frictional contact with the print medium while the print medium is pulled over a surface of the drive gear, and
- a printer positioning port to position the manually actuatable printer to print on the print medium, wherein the drive gear of the media feed appliance is positioned to mechanically engage with a printer gear when the manually actuatable printer is docked at the port.
A method of printing on a print medium, comprising:
- manually pulling a print medium through a path in a media feed appliance;
- driving a drive gear of the media feed appliance using frictional contact from the print medium being manually pulled over a surface of the drive gear;
- driving a printer gear of a manually actuatable printer via the drive gear of the media feed appliance;
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- printing on the print medium while the printer gear is being driven and the print medium is being manually pulled through the path of the media feed appliance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.