Patent ID: 7416009

Claim:
A wall mounted printer comprising a main chassis, a mounting plate for securing to a vertical wall and a plurality of spigots on said main chassis for engagement with said mounting plate, a pivoting media tray disposed on a front upper portion of the main chassis, a printhead unit disposed within the main chassis vertically beneath the media tray, and a binding assembly disposed within the main chassis vertically beneath a printing zone of the printhead unit, the binding assembly comprising a support chassis beneath a printing zone of the printer, the support chassis defining a glue application and binding zone in which printed sheets of media are received in a feed direction; and an elongate glue applicator mounted on the support chassis and positioned substantially at right angles to said feed direction, the applicator being displaceable towards and away from the sheets of media to apply a strip of glue to a transverse edge of each of said consecutive sheets of media, the wall mounted printer further comprising a removable collection tray disposed at the base of the main chassis for receiving printed and bound media exiting from the main chassis, wherein said feed direction is vertical and parallel with the vertical wall such that sheets pass through said printer in a plane parallel to the wall.