Method and apparatus for aligning a media sheet
AssigneeKodak Graphic Communications Canada Company
InventorsAndreas Michael Albat, Dannye Robert Williams, Andrew Mitchell, Gil Rosenfeld
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Abstract
An alignment device for aligning a manually loaded media sheet to a printer feed path has at least one registration feature disposed to register the trailing edge of the media sheet to the feed path. By aligning the trailing edge, an orthogonal media sheet is loaded into the printer without skew ensuring that the printed image is precisely aligned to the media sheet.
Claims3
An alignment device for aligning a media sheet with a print axis of a printer, the media sheet having a leading edge and a trailing edge, the device comprising at least one registration feature for aligning the trailing edge of the media sheet in a direction that is parallel to the print axis of the printer, and a mechanism for adjusting the alignment of the registration feature so that the direction is aligned with the print axis of the printer wherein the at least one registration feature comprises a line marked on the alignment device.
A method of aligning a media sheet to be loaded into a printer along a feed path, the sheet having a leading edge and a trailing edge, the method of comprising:
- loading the media sheet so that the leading edge of the sheet is in proximity to the feed path;
- adjusting an orientation of a registration feature that is stationary relative to the feed path so that the registration feature is in alignment with aprint axis of the printer;
- aligning the trailing edge of the media sheet to the registration feature;
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- moving the media sheet along the feed path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.