Cabinet for a web printing system
AssigneeSilverbrook Research Pty Ltd
InventorsKia Silverbrook, Tobin Allen King
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Abstract
A cabinet for a printing system for producing wallpaper printed on a media web, the cabinet comprising: a support adapted to hold at least one media cartridge, containing the media web, and to hold a printhead; at least one guide to direct the media web past the printhead; a further support adapted to hold at least one ink reservoir in fluid communication with the printhead; at least one module adapted to hold at least one processor; a user interface to forward user instructions to the at least one processor; a drying compartment to dry printed wallpaper; and a receiving stage to receive printed wallpaper onto a roller.
Claims17
A cabinet for a printing system for printing a consumer selected print on a media web, the cabinet comprising:
- a support adapted to hold at least one media cartridge, containing the media web, and to hold a stationary printhead;
- at least one guide to direct the media web past the stationary printhead;
- a further support adapted to hold at least one ink reservoir in fluid communication with the printhead;
- at least one module adapted to hold at least one processor;
- a user interface to forward user instructions to the at least one processor;
- a drying compartment to dry the printed media web;
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- a receiving stage to receive the printed media web onto a driven roller, wherein the media web is fed along a straight media path from the media cartridge past the stationary printhead and through the drying compartment by the driven roller, the drying compartment having a door adjacent the media path, the printed media web extending from the media path as a catenary loop into a cavity of the drying compartment when the door is open.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.