Patent ID: 8393810
Filing Date: 2013-03-12
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A media guide system for guiding media unwound from a roll of a roll assembly along a direction of roll feeding in a printer, the roll assembly having the roll supported by a core extending from one core end to an edge guide, the guide system comprising: a guide base including: the roll assembly, wherein, when the roll assembly is loaded into the guide base by engaging the edge guide into at least one of the plurality of edge guide receivers, the datum edge guide surface of the guide base and the edge guide of the roll assembly serve as edge guides to guide the media unwound from the roll through the printer during a printing operation, and wherein the plurality of edge guide receivers extend continuously along the direction of roll feeding from an axis of the roll of the roll assembly, when the roll assembly is loaded into the guide base, to the position along the direction of roll feeding at which the datum edge guide surface is provided.