Patent ID: 6926400

Claim:
An incising device for incising media in a printer, the printer having a moveable carriage, said incising device comprising: a frame configured to be operably secured to the carriage; an incising head operably secured to the frame, the head including a plurality of mechanical incising structures, each structure being independently movable in a direction non-parallel to a plane of the media between a first position in which the structure engages the media to incise the media and a second disengaged position in which the structure is disengaged from the media; at least one actuator operably secured to the incising head, said at least one actuator being configured to move each of the plurality of incising structures between the first position and the second position, wherein one of the mechanical structures includes a disk pivotally secured to the incising head, said disk operably engaging said media in said first position thereby incising the media.