Patent ID: 7387456
Filing Date: 2008-06-17
Classification: B41J,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A printer comprising: a housing having space to receive a supply roll of a composite web with labels releaseably adhered to a carrier web, a door movable between open and closed positions and pivotally mounted on the housing, a holder on the door to mount the supply roll, the supply roll being in the supply-roll receiving space when the door is in the closed position, the supply roll being capable of being mounted onto or removed from the holder when the door is in the open position, a print head on the housing, a platen roll on the door and cooperable with the print head to print on the labels, a delaminator on the door, the delaminator being disposed downstream of the print head and usable to delaminate labels from the carrier web, a pressure roll cooperable with the platen roll to draw the carrier web around the delaminator, a battery compartment (to receive a battery), the battery compartment opening into the supply roll receiving space, a battery being insertable into and removable from the battery compartment through the supply-roll receiving space when the door is in the open position, an electric motor capable of rotating the platen roll to advance the carrier web, and label delamination occurring when the carrier web is advanced by the platen roll and while the pressure roll cooperates with the platen roll.