Patent ID: 6988845

Claim:
A commercial printer for use in a scalable printing system, the printer comprising: a housing with a media web inlet formed in a first surface, a media web outlet formed in a second surface, a media feed path between said media web media inlet and said media web outlet, and a stacking surface; a printhead adjacent the media web inlet; a drying fluid supply duct extending along one side of the feed path, and substantially coextensive therewith, to direct a drying fluid flow across the media web generally transverse to the feed path and parallel to the plane of the media web; wherein, the housing has ink, power and drying fluid inlets configured in one or more surfaces of said housing other than said stacking surface such that the printer is stackable with one or more other printers adjacent said stacking surface; and wherein stacking of printers adjacent said stacking surface does not substantially inhibit entry of a media web through said media web inlet nor exit of said media web through said media web outlet.