Patent ID: 7267499

Claim:
A system for printing an entire image on oversized print media, comprising: a transportation system having a track; a printing station, comprising a moveable print head; an unloading station and delivery station; a platform, the platform comprising a clamping device and an expandable member, wherein the clamping device is coupled to the expandable member, wherein the platform is sized to receive an oversized print substrate, the print substrate being sized to correspond to a desired product size, the clamping device being configured to releasably couple to the print substrate and secure the print substrate to the platform, and wherein the platform resides on the track and moves along the track in a translational motion; wherein the printing station and the unloading station and delivery station are coupled together by the track; the platform and print substrate being linearly translated along the track to each station; and wherein the print head is configured to scan across the print substrate in a direction perpendicular to the translational motion of the print substrate.