Patent ID: 8348531

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: one or more media treatment devices; and a web flow path adapted to extend from a printing device and having bowed segments extending between at least three consecutive turns in a first rotational direction immediately following the printing device, wherein the web flow path has a teepee shape having a first side segment and a second side segment converging at an upper vertex of the teepee shape, the first side segment and the second side segment extending from base corners of the teepee shape formed by two of the at least three consecutive turns; a first media treatment device facing inwardly in a first inward direction to face a face of the web along the web flow path; and a second media treatment device facing inwardly in a second inward direction to face the face of the web along the web flow path, wherein the first side segment of the web flow path is configured to support a printed upon face of the web outwardly towards the first media treatment device, wherein the second side segment of the web flow path is configured to support the printed upon face of the web outwardly towards the second media treatment device and wherein the web flow path extends within the teepee shape between the first side segment and the second side segment where the flow path turns in a second rotational direction opposite to the first direction prior to exiting through a base of the teepee shape.