Patent ID: 7500798

Claim:
A printer for a digital tachograph for a motor vehicle, the printer comprising: an elongate media output port with at least one bearing surface arranged to delimit the media output port in a transverse direction and along which printing medium slides during output; wherein the media output port comprises an elongate sealing closure arranged to be movable in the transverse direction and press elastically against the bearing surface by means of a sealing feed guide so as to close the media output port, wherein the printing medium is capable of being outputted between the bearing surface and the sealing closure in an output direction, wherein the sealing closure comprises an elastic seal with an elastic sealing lip which presses elastically against the bearing surface, wherein the elastic seal has an at least partially sickle-shaped cross-sectional profile, a convex side of the cross-sectional profile pointing opposite to the output direction of the printing medium, and wherein the elastic seal has a length limited by a first end and a second end, and, in a region of each end, a transverse end web in a concave hollow surface of the cross-sectional profile.