Double journal roll feed

In a printer having a print head, a platen, a single supply roll having inner and outer layers of paper, a supply chamber which includes wall means for containing said single supply roll, and feed rolls for driving said inner and outer layers of paper from said supply roll past said platen and said print head, and causing formation of a blouse of said outer layer of paper,

• the improvement comprising:
• a bail supported on said wall means of said supply chamber and being movable between a first operating position in which a feed passage for said inner and outer layers of paper is formed at a front portion of said supply chamber by said bail and said wall means,and a second position at which said bail is disposed at a rear portion of said supply chamber;
• a switch coacting with said bail for sensing that said bail leaves said first operating position, for preventing at least printer operation when said bail leaves said first operating position;
• said single supply roll having a core to which at least said inner layer of paper is secured, and wherein said core moves said bail from said first position when said inner layer of paper becomes exhausted;
• and
• a flexible web having one end attached to said bail and another end attached to said wall means at a rear portion of said supply chamber, said flexible web being arranged to contact a blouse of said outer layer of paper to thereby provide a restraint of said blouse of said outer layer of paper when said bail is in said first position.