Patent ID: 7760236

Claim:
A printing system for installation in a vehicle for providing hard-copies of images from a digital camera, said printing system comprising: a wireless communications subsystem for receiving wireless image information from the digital camera, a print media cartridge holding a supply of print media and printing fluid; a printer having a chassis defining an access opening for receiving the print media cartridge, said opening closed off by a spring-biased flap, the print media cartridge further comprising a cover having a pair of transversely spaced openings defined in a front edge thereof to permit a pick up roller of the printer to engage a topmost sheet of a stack of paper within the print media cartridge; a printhead housed in the chassis; a printer controller, external to the printer, for controlling the printer; a printed circuit board (PCB) mounted in the chassis with control circuitry connected to the printer controller via a wiring loom of the vehicle; a pair of drive motors mounted on a sidewall of the chassis, a first drive motor for driving a first gear train mounted on a side molding of the chassis, wherein the print media cartridge is provided with a toothed rack on one side thereof and a second rack on a side opposite to the side on which the toothed rack is provided, the toothed rack for engaging with the first gear train to facilitate insertion and ejection of the cartridge with respect to the chassis, and the second rack for inhibiting skewing of the print media cartridge.