Patent ID: 7993065

Claim:
A printer for a tachograph of a motor vehicle, comprising: a housing, a printing unit comprising a non-pivotably mounted print head, a media unit for accommodating a medium which is to be printed, the media unit comprising a carrier and arranged to be jointly moved with the carrier, wherein the carrier comprises lateral first guide elements arranged in a manner of a drawer and which interact with second guide elements in such a way that the carrier can be moved in a push-in direction and counter to the push-in direction out of the housing, the media unit further arranged to be moved relative to the printing unit in the push-in direction into an operating position and counter to the push-in direction out of an operating position, and further moved at least partly out of the housing, wherein the print head is configured to move longitudinally together with the printing unit in the push-in direction and the printing unit is configured to be moved in the housing within a movement play, and wherein means for orienting the printing unit with respect to the media unit are provided and arranged such that the printing unit and the media unit are oriented with respect to one another when the media unit is pushed in the push-in direction.