Patent ID: 7387459

Claim:
A printer operable in either a strip mode wherein a printable strip is dispensed or in a peel mode wherein labels on a carrier web are peeled and dispensed from a carrier web, the printer comprising: a print head, a driven platen roll cooperable with the print head, a delaminator disposed downstream of the print head, a pressure roll disposed downstream of the delaminator, a holder, wherein the holder mounts the pressure roll in a strip mode position out of pressure cooperation with the carrier web and the platen roll in the strip mode and a peel mode position in pressure cooperation with the carrier web and the platen roll in the peel mode, and an actuator selectively positionable out of actuating relationship with the holder in the strip mode and in actuating relationship with the holder in the peel mode, and the actuator being operative to locate the pressure roll in the peel mode position.