Patent ID: 7090345

Claim:
A portable printer, comprising: a housing having a bottom wall, a plurality of sidewalls extending upwardly from the bottom wall, the plurality of sidewalls including a front wall, a rear wall, and opposing sidewalls extending between the front and rear walls, the housing further having a top wall attached to the opposing sidewalls, the housing defining a compartment having an anterior portion and a posterior portion, the top wall having an anterior section, a middle section and a posterior section defining a flat surface adapted for supporting a laptop computer, the anterior section being pivotally connected to the middle section and covering the anterior portion of the compartment when the anterior section of the top wall is closed, the posterior section being pivotally connected to the middle section and covering the posterior portion of the compartment when the posterior section is closed; a print head assembly disposed inside the housing for distributing ink to a print medium; a primary feed mechanism for feeding the print medium to the print head assembly; and circuitry communicatively linked to the print head assembly and primary feed mechanism for controlling operation of the primary feed mechanism and the print head assembly.