System and method for detecting presence of a shipping insert of a printing device
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsAngela Kay Ogle, Cori Schaefer
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a system and method for detecting the presence of a shipping insert in a printing device. In one arrangement, the system and method pertain to determining if a print medium is detected at a fusing system exit of the printing device, and if a print medium is detected at the fusing system exit of the printing device, determining if a page count of the printing device is equal to zero, wherein if the page count is equal to zero it is confirmed that a shipping insert is present in the printing device.
Claims20
A method for detecting the presence of a shipping insert in a printing device, the method comprising:
- determining if a print medium is detected at a fusing system exit of the printing device;
- and
- if a print medium is detected at the fusing system exit of the printing device, determining if a page count of the printing device is equal to zero;
- wherein if the page count is equal to zero it is confirmed that a shipping insert is present in the printing device.
A shipping insert detection module stored on a computer-readable medium, the module comprising:
- logic configured to determine if a print medium is detected at a fusing system exit of a printing device;
- logic configured to determine if a page count of the printing device is equal to zero if a print medium is determined to be detected;
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- logic configured to notify a user that a shipping insert has not been removed if a print medium is determined to be detected and the print count is equal to zero.
A shipping insert for a fusing system of a printing device, comprising:
- a body portion that is adapted to attach to a separation mechanism of the fusing system;
- and
- a sensing element contact member that is adapted to maintain a print medium sensing element of the fusing system in a position that identifies the presence of a print medium.
A printing device, comprising:
- a fusing system that includes a separation mechanism for separating a fuser roller and a pressure roller of the fusing system, the fusing system further including a print medium sensing element configured to facilitate detection of a print medium;
- a shipping insert attached to the separation mechanism, the shipping insert being configured to maintain the sensing element in a first position that identifies the presence of a print medium and to toggle the separation mechanism to a second position in which the fuser roller and the pressure roller are fully urged against each other when the shipping insert is removed;
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- memory that comprises a shipping insert detection module that includes logic configured to determine if a print medium is detected at the fusing system and logic configured to determine if a page count of the printing device is equal to zero.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.