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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2000
Douglas Anthony Able, Shelbyville, KY (US);
Charles Jerome Cheek, Versailles, KY (US);
Cyrus Bradford Clarke, Lexington, KY (US);
James Douglas Gilmore, Lexington, KY (US);
Douglas Campbell Hamilton, Lexington, KY (US);
Thomas Campbell Wade, Lexington, KY (US);
Lexmark International, Inc., Lexington, KY (US);
Abstract
A printer has a media feed path (,) for feeding sheets of media (,), with the path having a side reference edge (,) for aligning the media. A media transport mechanism feeds the sheets of media at a standard speed and at a reduced speed. A narrow media detector (,) generates a narrow media signal when sheets of narrow media are fed through the media feed path. A controller (,) adjusts the media transport mechanism to feed the narrow media aligned with the reference edge at the reduced speed. A method of printing sheets of narrow media in a printer comprises the steps of aligning the narrow media with a reference edge in a media feed path of the printer, sensing when the narrow media are present in the media feed path, and feeding the narrow media through the media feed path at the reduced sheet feeding speed and, particularly with a belt fuser, with increased inter-sheet gap.