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Article: Australian Inventor Develops Print Media Feed Alignment Mechanism
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
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- November 18, 2006
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- David William Jensen of Balmain, Australia, has developed a method of separating a sheet of print media from a stack of sheets, the sheets being porous.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To maintain quality printed images in high speed photographic quality printing it is necessary to ensure accurate registry of the print media with the printheads. To ensure this result an alignment mechanism is provided for the stack of print media to be fed to the printer."
An abstract of the invention, released by the Patent Office, said: "The alignment mechanism comprises a receptacle to hold the stack of print media, a registry stop and a tapping mechanism ...