Portable computer with integral printer

A portable laptop computer, having a base housing with an input keyboard, a screen and a printer, comprising:

• the base housing having a through transport channel which extends essentially parallel to a bottom side of the base housing and has a width corresponding essentially to a length of one edge of the base housing for the passage of a printing medium, a printing head being arranged on one side of a transport plane and a pressure abutment of the printer being arranged on the other side;
• the base housing being divided in the transport plane into a lower housing part and an upper housing part that can be placed on, or lifted off from, the lower housing part, the lower housing part accommodating a first group of function components with a printing head which can be moved in the direction of print lines, lower printing medium transport rollers, and a ribbon system, with their respective drive apparatus, and wherein in the upper housing part on top a second group of function components with a pressure abutment and with upper abutments for the lower transport rollers is arranged;
• the lower housing part having an electrical or electronic drive and control module arrangement for the printer, to which substantially all electrical and electronic function components of the printer are plug-connected;
• a ribbon cassette having a ribbon, said ribbon cassette positioned flat on the top side of the lower housing part, in such a way that a flat top side of the ribbon cassette is flush with a plane of the printing medium, transport rollers arranged in the ribbon cassette being coupled to at least one drive journal protruding through a bed surface for the ribbon cassette;
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• at least one of the input keyboard and the screen being units which can be adjusted between a non-operating position lying against the base housing and an operating position.