Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Josh Dankovchik

Eric Berner Strom

John C Barker

Sierra Lynn Triebe

John J Contrell

Robert De La O

Bill Fournier

Sierra Lynn Wolf

Restraining a carriage includes a carriage restraint to secure the carriage of a printer, wherein the carriage restraint moves between an engaged position and a disengaged position and an engagement assembly to selectively move the carriage restraint between the engaged position and a disengaged position in between printing operations.

Restraining a carriage with a carriage restraint

A printing device includes a carriage slidably mounted on a carriage rail, the carriage to move along the carriage rail, and a selectable drive system includes a capping system to cap a number of pens coupled to the carriage, a scan drive system to drive components of a scanning device associated with the printing device, a drive selector assembly to select between driving the capping system to a printing system drive position or driving the scan drive system depending on a position of a selector swing arm of the drive selector assembly, and a shifter to selectively shift the drive selector assembly between a scanning system drive position of the selector swing arm and a printing system drive position of the selector swing arm.

Selectable drive system

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Vancouver, WA, United States of America

Josh Dankovchik