US 7,832,953 B2Granted

Web printer

AssigneeSilverbrook Research Pty Ltd

InventorsKia Silverbrook, Tobin Allen King, Janette Faye Lee

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Abstract

A web printer is disclosed. The web printer includes a print media cartridge carrying a wound length of print media, a platen extending away from the print media cartridge to support print media provided from the print media cartridge along a print media travel path, a stationary printhead mounted within the cabinet configured to print a pattern upon print media provided from the platen. The print media travel path from the print media cartridge to the printhead forms a straight line. Also, the printhead extends at least the width of the print media. Ink reservoirs are also provided for supplying ink to the printhead. A storage stores pattern image data. A data capture device captures an identifier carried by a web sample. The identifier is associated with one of the patterns. When an identifier of a web sample is captured, image data corresponding to the pattern on the web sample is supplied to the printhead for printing.

Claims8

Dependent claims

A web printer comprising:

a cabinet;
storage means for storing image data corresponding to a plurality of patterns;
a data capture device configured to capture a configuration of a wallpaper, the configuration including a length and an identifier carried by a web sample, the identifier being associated with one of the plurality of patterns stored in the storage means;
a print media cartridge mounted within the cabinet and carrying a wound length of print media;
a platen extending away from the print media cartridge to support print media provided from the print media cartridge along a print media travel path;
a stationary printhead mounted within the cabinet configured to print image data corresponding to the pattern on the web sample upon print media provided from the platen, the print media travel path from the print media cartridge to the printhead forming a substantially straight line, the printhead extending at least the width of the print media;
a plurality of ink reservoirs mounted within the cabinet for supplying ink to the printhead;
and
a cutting module mounted to the cabinet for separating the length of print media according to the configuration after being printed upon from the wound length of print media.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/272,762Filed 17 Nov 2008 · continuation
Priority: 21 Jan 2004
Published: US 2009/0086221 A12 Apr 2009
Granted: 16 Nov 2010
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

B41J 15/042
Supporting, feeding, or guiding devices; Mountings for web rolls or spindles: for loading rolled-up continuous copy material into printers, e.g.…
B41J 11/0022
Curing or drying the ink on the copy materials, e.g. by heating or irradiating: using convection means, e.g. by using a fan for blowing or sucking air
B41J 15/044
Supporting, feeding, or guiding devices; Mountings for web rolls or spindles: cassettes or cartridges containing continuous copy material, tape,…
F26B 13/102
Supporting materials without tension, e.g. on or between foraminous belts: the materials, e.g. web, being supported in loops by rods or poles,…

Family

Application10/760,239Parent of this continuation · filed 21 Jan 2004
Application11/123,114Parent of this continuation · filed 6 May 2005
Application11/730,407Parent of this continuation · filed 2 Apr 2007
US 2009/0086221 A1Pre-grant publication · published 2 Apr 2009
US 7,470,074 B2Parent of this continuation
US 7,195,412 B2Parent of this continuation
US 6,920,704 B1Parent of this continuation
US 2005/0155248 A1Published application
US 2005/0200682 A1Published application
US 2007/0177924 A1Published application
US 7,832,953 B2This patent

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