Patent ID: 8145076

Claim:
A printing system comprising: a body; a transport mechanism disposed in said body relative to a print area; a print engine disposed in said body having a plurality of spaces in which a print module can be positioned in operative relation to the transport mechanism and a respective portion of a print area; an interchangeable modular accessory cartridge disposed in one of said spaces facing the respective portion of said print area, said accessory cartridge capable of selectively performing a non toner deposition action portion; and a cartridge controller that is configured to determine when a print module is in one of the spaces and to control the print module for printing and to determine when an modular accessory cartridge is in one of the spaces, to identify a type of accessory cartridge in the space as a cartridge type and to control the cartridge type in relation to predetermined instructions to cause the accessory cartridge to perform a non-toner deposition operation.