Reel for mounting record member roll

Abstract

There is disclosed a printer having a thermal print head and a cooperable platen roll. The platen roll is driven to advance a web of record medium and an ink ribbon into cooperation with the print head. The printer can use an ink ribbon cartridge. The printer has a compact arrangement for the record medium supply roll, the ink ribbon cartridge, the printing mechanism, the drive mechanism, the keyboard, and the cutting mechanism for cutting tags from the web. The supply roll is mounted on a reel having first and second side plates on a hub. A first hub member is connected to the first side plate. A second hub member is adapted to be connected either to the second side plate in opposition to the first hub member in its first position so that the first and second hub members support the supply roll or to the first hub member when the first hub member is in its second position so that the hub is adapted to support a supply roll between the first and second side plates.

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