Xerox Corporation

Gregory N Carpenter

John D Gramlich

Dean Thomas

Michael James Diehl

Thomas P Lambert

Janice S Brooks

James T Kayko

A substrate feeding system, and printers that use such feeding systems, that includes a feed roll and a retard roll that form a nip, a nudger roll for advancing a substrate from a substrate stack toward the nip, and an entrance guide between the nudger roll and the nip. The entrance guide has a contact surface that forms an angle of more than 100.degree. with the direction of motion of the substrate. The entrance guide further including a top section over which the substrate moves as it advances into the nip. The entrance guide is beneficially pivotally mounted such that when a retard roll is removed the entrance guide pivots out of the way, and such that when a retard roll is in place the entrance guide moves into position.

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Springwater, NY, United States of America

Gregory N Carpenter