Patent ID: 6616354
Filing Date: 2003-09-09
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
Apparatus for adjusting the spacing in a printer between a printhead and the travel path for print media that moves through the printer, wherein the printhead is borne by a carriage that is rotatably mounted in the printer adjacent an elongate, engageable bearing rail, and wherein the rotated condition of the carriage relative to that rail establishes such spacing, the apparatus comprising:first and second relatively moveable bearing structures mounted on the carriage, each including a bearing surface which is moveable relative to the bearing surface in the other bearing structure, the bearing surfaces, as a result of defined relative movement occurring therebetween, selectively engaging the bearing rail to establish two, different, related, rotated conditions of the carriage; and actuator structure mounted on the carriage and operatively associated with the bearing structures, operable to produce such defined relative movement.