Patent ID: 7735951

Claim:
A hand-operated printer, comprising: a body; a printhead mounted to said body; at least one transparent target sight mounted to said body: and a controller mounted to said body, said controller operating said printhead to print at least one alignment mark for a subsequent print swath during a printing of a current print swath to facilitate a visual alignment of at least one transparent target sight with said alignment mark prior to beginning printing of said subsequent print swath with said controller printing a subsequent alignment mark during printing of said subsequent print swath wherein said subsequent alignment mark is moved vertically with respect to said at least one alignment mark of said current print swath to create a variable height swath, wherein said at least one transparent target sight comprises: a first transparent target sight positioned to facilitate manual alignment of said subsequent scan of said hand-operated printer in a first direction; and a second transparent target sight positioned to facilitate manual alignment of a next subsequent scan of said hand-operated printer in a second direction opposite to said first direction.