Media control technique for cutting operation on a printer

A printer and media cutter assembly for cutting rollfeed media subsequent to passage of media through a print zone to a cutting zone located downstream from the print zone, said printer including an output platen located adjacent to the printing zone and said cutter assembly being transversely moveable across the media path, said cutter assembly comprising a support;

• a first rotary cutting blade mounted on said support and having first and second sides and a peripheral cutting edge which lies in a first cutting plane, said first blade being mounted for rotation such that said first cutting plane makes a first acute angle relative to a cutter traverse direction and said second side of said first blade faces generally in the direction of media movement, and said second cutting blade having first and second sides and a peripheral cutting edge which lies in a second cutting plane, said second blade being mounted for rotation such that said second cutting plane makes a second acute angle relative to said cutter traverse direction and said second side of said second blade faces generally opposite to the direction of media movement, said cutting edges being engageable with each other;
• and a first wheel mounted on said support for holding the media in secure position against said output platen during a cutting operation, said wheel mounted for rotation in a plane which intersects said lateral direction at a third acute angle which is equal to or greater than said first acute angle.