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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2007
Holli C. Ogle, Corvallis, OR (US);
Ralph L. Stathem, Corvallis, OR (US);
Jefferson P. Ward, Bush Prairie, WA (US);
Holli C. Ogle, Corvallis, OR (US);
Ralph L. Stathem, Corvallis, OR (US);
Jefferson P. Ward, Bush Prairie, WA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A user inserts one or more consumable enclosures into one or more corresponding slots of a printing device. The user engages a locking mechanism of the printing device into a corresponding feature of each consumable enclosure. The printing device detects user engagement of the locking mechanism. In response to the user performing a consumable enclosure-related action, the printing device substantially impedes user access to the locking mechanism and the consumable enclosures until the user has entered an unlock code.