Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Hewlett-packard Company

Other

Joseph S Wong

William H Schwiebert

Mark Alan McCluskey

Samuel Albert Massey

Steven W Trovinger

Dario Giovanni Miticocchio

Kevin R Lozeau

Blake McEldowney

Allen Zadeh

Adam L Hornstein

Raymond Wayne Moskaluk

Jaime E Dorman

Jodi Bay

Robert A Horenstein

Stephen J Hall

Jeffrey A Tilley

John E Goode

Andrew J Zoolakis

Arthur King Wilson

Brian D Gragg

John Jamieson

Stephen C Hall

Steven Ray Card

Murray Learmonth

John A Jamieson

Susan E De La Torre

Ronald F Burke

A system for producing photographic prints includes a digital camera, having a memory configured for storing images, and a stand-alone printer. The printer includes a docking port and control devices. The docking port is configured to mechanically receive the digital camera. The control devices are configured to allow selection of an image from the memory of the digital camera, and to initiate printing thereof by the printer. The system and method allow a user to deliver an image captured by the digital camera, either as a hard-copy print or as an electronic file, using controls of the printer device.

System and method for producing photographic prints

Printer

Camera-printer combination

Printer body

Memory card receiver

The invention accomplishes print medium feed functions, at least in part, by making use of pre-existing printer apparatus that is used to accomplish other functions of the printer. For example, the invention can enable the use-of a single print drive mechanism to accommodate multiple print medium feed paths within a printer and, in particular, feed paths in which print media are fed into the print drive mechanism in different (e.g., opposite) directions. Additionally, the invention can enable a rotatable media guide that can be positioned in one position to guide a sheet of a print medium during a print operation and in another position to release the sheet of the print medium after the printing operation, to be positioned in still another position to facilitate guiding a sheet of a print medium into a print drive mechanism after the sheet has traversed a gap in the feed path. The invention can also enable sensing of print medium insertion into a print medium feed path using pre-existing sensing apparatus within a printer that is used for other sensing purposes.

Print medium feed system using pre-existing printing apparatus

Integrated localization panel

Image transfer device

The invention accomplishes print medium feed functions, at least in part, by making use of pre-existing printer apparatus that is used to accomplish other functions of the printer. For example, the invention can enable the use of a single print drive mechanism to accommodate multiple print medium feed paths within a printer and, in particular, feed paths in which print media are fed into the print drive mechanism in different (e.g., opposite) directions. Additionally, the invention can enable a rotatable media guide that can be positioned in one position to guide a sheet of a print medium during a print operation and in another position to release the sheet of the print medium after the printing operation, to be positioned in still another position to facilitate guiding a sheet of a print medium into a print drive mechanism after the sheet has traversed a gap in the feed path. The invention can also enable sensing of print medium insertion into a print medium feed path using pre-existing sensing apparatus within a printer that is used for other sensing purposes.

Print medium feed system using pre-existing printer apparatus

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San Diego, CA, United States of America

Joseph S Wong