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AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsThomas E. McCue, Jr., Todd M. Gaasch, Mark Garboden
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A hardcopy printing mechanism and a greeting card feeder retrofit kit therefor, along with a retrofitting method are provided for printing images on a first-sized media, and on both surfaces a second-sized greeting card media without removing the first-sized media from its normal supply tray. The hardcopy device may be an electrophotographic or inkjet printer preferably equipped with a duplexer module which inverts media from a printed first surface to an opposing second surface for printing an image thereon. For a printer having an alignment surface, and a width adjuster to push the first-sized media against the alignment surface, the greeting card feeder includes a biasing member which pushes the card stock against the alignment surface. The retrofit kit includes a supply of pre-scored greeting card stock and a software program with a group of greeting card images for a consumer to select from to print store-bought quality greeting cards.
A hardcopy printing device, comprising:
The device of 1, wherein said image generator comprises an inkjet printhead.
A hardcopy printing device comprising:
A hardcopy printing device comprising:
A retrofit kit for a hardcopy printing device comprising:
A retrofit kit for a hardcopy printing device comprising:
A method of printing a greeting card, comprising inserting a sheet of greeting card stock through an input slot in an output tray of a printing device, said input slot allowing said greeting card stock to be fed by a print media handling system of said printing device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.