Hewlett-packard Company

Caroline Zepeda

Junji Yamamoto

Kerry Neal McKay

James M Osmus

Daniel Steven Kline

Mark A Hay

Victor T Escobedo

Andrew Shun Chiu

Juehui Hong

Michael T Kennedy

The present invention provides a low profile stackable Internet appliance printer for use with a television receiver and monitor and responsive to commands from a remote device for printing user desired information. The printer has a box like rectangular shaped housing conforming in size to that of conventional electronic audio video components such as cable boxes, DVD players, amplifiers, video tapes and the like to facilitate the stacking of the printer with such other components. A base member supports in a front portion of the printer a printbar and associated printheads to provide the user with easy printhead head access. The base member has an open bottom for receiving a removable combination input/output tray cassette. Upon removal of the combination input/output tray cassette, front user access is made available for the purposes of removing a paper jam should one occur. A channel member mounted to the base member helps define a paper path from the cassette to a print zone disposed beneath the printbar. A U-shape cutout in the channel member further provides user access to the paper path for facilitating the removal of paper jams while the printer is in a stacked configuration with other electronic devices.

Media channel and method of clearing media jams

The present invention provides a low profile stackable Internet appliance printer for use with a television receiver and monitor and responsive to commands from a remote device for printing user desired information. The printer has a box like rectangular shaped housing conforming in size to that of conventional electronic audio video components such as cable boxes, DVD players, amplifiers, video tapes and the like to facilitate the stacking of the printer with such other components. A base member having defines an interior cavity for receiving a removable combination input/output tray cassette and supports from below a low profile printbar including its feed motor, drive motor, associated electronic drivers for controlling the firing of low profile printheads, carriage movement and the moving of paper to print user desired images. The combination input/output tray cassette includes a release to allow the complete removal of the cassette for resupplying an input tray portion thereof with a new supply of paper and for providing a user with access to the interior of the printer to facilitate the removal of any paper jams. A user actuated paper size adjuster permits the input tray portion of the cassette unit to accommodate at least two different sizes of paper and couples a repositioning mechanism to an leading edge kick out feature to facilitate the ejection of sheets of paper in accordance with the paper size selection made by the user.

Stackable low profile printer with an input and output media telescoping tray cassette

An image-related device has an image-medium receiving tray. The tray is designed by a method that enables the tray to control the contouring of sheets of image medium during reception. The tray has a planar surface and a curved surface. The curved surface is designed by selecting a series of transverse and longitudinal curves to define a curved surface that is generally concave in the transverse direction while also sloping upward in the longitudinal direction. The combined concave and sloped shape of the curved surface causes the leading-edge region of the image medium to transversely curl and thereby obtain sufficient rigidity to extend beyond the front end of the tray. In addition, the curved surface--operating in conjunction with the kickout mechanism of the device--interacts with sheets of medium in a way that causes the sheets to land on top of each other instead of sliding against each other, thereby reducing the possibility of smearing while at the same time producing a neat, evenly stacked pile of media.

Image-related device having image-medium receiving tray, and a tray for

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S. P., CA, United States of America

Caroline Zepeda