Patent ID: 9718291
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: B41J

Claim:
1. A printing assembly comprising a medium support surface, a guide assembly and a printer carriage support structure for moveably supporting a print head carriage on the guide assembly via a carriage frame, wherein the guide assembly is arranged to move the print head carriage in a carriage plane, which carriage plane is parallel to the medium support surface, the guide assembly comprising a) a guide beam; and b) a guide rail arranged on the guide beam, wherein the guide rail and the guide beam each extend in a scanning direction; the printer carriage support structure comprising c) a guide frame arranged on the guide rail, the guide frame being moveable in the scanning direction and extending in the scanning direction between a first support position and a second support position, wherein the guide frame is supported on the guide rail at said first support position and at said second support position; and d) the carriage frame moveably supported on the guide rail through the guide frame; wherein the carriage frame is coupled to the guide frame such that the carriage frame is moveable relative to the guide frame in the carriage plane and wherein the carriage frame is positioned in the carriage plane relative to the guide beam by support means, the support means supporting the carriage frame against a flat surface provided by the guide beam.