Patent ID: 7391435

Claim:
A monolithic integrated circuit which comprises programmable processing circuitry; a printhead interface that is connected to the processing circuitry and is configured to receive data from the processing circuitry and to generate control signals to be received by a pagewidth printhead of a printing mechanism, the printhead interface being directly connectable to the pagewidth printhead; a first image sensor interface that is connected to the processing circuitry and is configured to receive image manipulation signals from a first image sensor and to pass image manipulation data representing the image manipulation signals to the programmable processing circuitry; a second image sensor interface that is connected to the processing circuitry and is configured to receive visual image signals from a second image sensor and to pass visual image data representing the visual image signals to the programmable processing circuitry; and a force sensor interface that is connected to the programmable processing circuitry, wherein when a force is applied to a print medium which the pagewidth printhead uses for printing the manipulated image, the force sensor interface receives a force sensor signal indicating a force has been applied to the print meduim, wherein in response to the force sensor signal the programmable processing circuitry is configured to transfer an actuation signal to a guillotine actuator so that the print medium is severed by a guillotine; wherein the programmable processing circuitry is configured to manipulate the visual image data using the image manipulation data to generate a manipulated visual image, wherein the manipulated visual image data representing the manipulated visual image is received by the printhead interface for printing the manipulated image.