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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 1994
Filed:
Oct. 07, 1992
Ng L Hock, Singapore, SG;
James J Girard, Boise, ID (US);
Lee G Keen, Singapore, SG;
James L Chan, Singapore, SG;
Chuin K Lim, Singapore, SG;
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A portable ink-jet printer and sheet feeder which can be battery powered. The printer may be manually fed paper for operation independent of the sheet feeder. The printer and sheet feeder are mounted on a base and locked at 90 degrees to one another. They may then be rotated into two operating modes in which automatic sheet feeding occurs, one of which provides a straight paper feed path for relatively stiff print media and/or printing relatively dense graphics. A paper output system includes a pair of wings and a deflector which place various arches in the paper as it emerges from the printer to maintain it over the previously printed sheet to permit it to dry. The printer may be configured by driving a print carriage having an arrow thereon to different positions adjacent a menu. When the arrow is opposite a desired configuration option, the option is selected by pressing a button.