Scanning ink jet printer for electronic displays

Apparatus for capturing images from a display and ink jet printing such images onto a receiver sheet, comprising:

• a) electronic means for storing a digital image;
• b) a display;
• c) means coupled to the display and responsive to the stored digital image for producing an image on the display, said image producing means producing, in a first condition, a correctly oriented image on the display, and in a second condition, a mirror image on the display, and;
• d) a printer which is connected in operative relationship to the display for causing the display to be effective in a second condition and having a moveable carriage, and a scanner and an ink jet printhead mounted on the carriage, and being arranged so that as the carriage moves, the scanner scans the mirror image on the display and produces image signals;
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• e) the ink jet printhead being responsive to the image signals produced by the scanner for producing the correctly oriented image onto the receiver sheet.

An attachable printer for use with a electronic camera having an image sensor and means for focusing an image of a subject onto the image sensor, the electronic camera comprising:

• a) electronic means coupled to the image sensor for storing a digital image of the subject;
• b) a display;
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• c) means coupled to the display and responsive to the stored digital image for producing an image on the display, said image producing means producing, in a first condition, a correctly oriented image on the display, and in a second condition, a mirror image on the display;
• d) means connected in operative relationship to the display for causing the display to be effective in a second condition and having a moveable scanner/ink jet printhead arranged so that as the scanner/ink jet printhead moves, the scanner scans the mirror image on the display and produces image signals;
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• e) the ink jet printhead being responsive to the image signals produced by the scanner for producing the correctly oriented image onto the receiver sheet.