Patent ID: 7070270

Claim:
A cartridge for a printing device, said cartridge comprising: a casing housing a supply of cut sheet print media and a media transport mechanism for picking up individual sheets of the print media and feeding the individual sheets through an exit slot in the casing; a drive engagement formation connected to the media transport mechanism; wherein, the supply of print media and the media transport mechanism are enclosed by the casing; and the drive engagement formation is partially external to the casing and positioned such that the drive engagement formation engages a powered drive in the printing device upon insertion of the cartridge, and wherein the drive engagement formation has a drive shaft extending into the casing through an aperture that forms a bearing point for rotatably mounting the drive shaft, and the media transport mechanism has at least one roller mounted on the drive shaft, and wherein the media transport mechanism has a spring member for biasing the sheets of print media against a single roller.