Patent ID: 7428073
Filing Date: 2008-09-23
Classification: B41J,B42D,H04N

Abstract:
1. A post card making device comprising a combination of: an original reading device having a housing of an external shape like a rectangular thick plate with an original reading window of a size of a post card in one face thereof and an image sensor mounted in the housing for reading an image exhibited to the original reading window and generating an image signal expressing the read-in image, an image printing device having a signal processor that processes the image signal and ink jet printing device that prints an image corresponding to the image sigal, and an original placing and storage assisting device serving as an original placing tray for supporting a sheet exhibiting an image as positioned relative to the original reading device when the image is read in by the original reading device and serving to assemble the original reading device to a bottom of the image printing device to form an integral unit for storage, the original placing and storage assisting device including a connecting mechanism that selectively connects the original placing and storage assisting device with the image printing device such that the integral unit is formed by sandwiching the original reading device between the original placing and storage assisting device and the image printing device.