Patent ID: 6574005
Filing Date: 2003-06-03
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
A smooth print medium feed mechanism, for a printing device having a developing chamber, containing a sensitive member and opposing transfer roller, with a covering surface and a fixing chamber, containing a heating roller and an opposing pressing roller, having an entry port, the print medium feed mechanism comprising:a plurality of first guide members extending into the developing chamber from the covering surface; and a plurality of second guide members extending from a surface of the entry port into the entry port on the same side of a print medium feed path as the plurality of first guide members, the plurality of first guide members extending from the covering surface spaced apart from one another along a longitudinal axis of the transfer roller and the plurality of second guide members extending from the surface of the entry port and spaced apart from one another along a longitudinal axis of the heating roller, the plurality of first guide members and the plurality of second guide members offset from one another such that no first guide member is aligned with a second guide member.