A print on demand camera system in which the camera unit incorporating a lens, image sensor, and image processing circuitry is connected to a detachable printer unit by way of a PCMCIA interface. The printer unit may incorporate a business card sized paper cartridge and have the overall dimensions of a PCMCIA type III card.

A printhead assembly includes an elongate channel member of a metal alloy. A flexible elongate fluid carrier is positioned on a floor of the channel member and defines a number of longitudinally extending passages extending along a length of the fluid carrier. The fluid carrier defines repeated patterns of holes, the holes of each pattern being in fluid communication with respective passages. A series of printhead modules are engaged with the channel member. Each printhead module includes an ink...

A computer keyboard assembly includes a computer keyboard, in turn, having a housing on which a keypad is arranged. The housing defines oppositely disposed print media input and ejection slots though which print media can pass. A print media feed mechanism is located within the housing and is configured to feed the print media along a print media path between the entry and ejection slots. The feed mechanism includes an endless belt which extends around a pair of rollers and a planar member which...

A mobile wallpaper printer for producing wallpaper, the printer comprising: a vehicle adapted to hold and transport the printer; input means for a consumer to select a wallpaper pattern to be printed on a media web to form the wallpaper; at least one media cartridge containing the media web; a printhead extending at least the width of the media web; drive means to drive the media web past the printhead; and, at least one processor to receive and process the selected wallpaper pattern and to cont...

A print media and printing fluid cartridge is provided which is arranged to be removably mounted in juxtaposition to a printer of a digital photofinishing system. The cartridge has a tubular core to which a roll of print media is removably and rotatably mounted so as to be fed on demand to the printer and within which a plurality of printing fluid first cartridges are removably located so as to feed a plurality of printing fluids to the printer on demand, and a print media delivery arrangement f...

An in-car entertainment unit provides a radio, a CD player and/or a DVD player, a display and a printing unit. The printing unit comprising includes a printhead, a replaceable cartridge containing a stack of print media sheets and an ink reservoir for supply of ink to the printing unit. The supply of print media sheets and the ink reservoir are arranged in stacked relationship relative to one another within the cartridge. A chassis receives the cartridge in use and provides ink hoses for couplin...

An inkjet printer unit is provided having a printhead assembly for printing onto media, a first media support for supporting the media for printing and a body incorporating the printhead and the first media support. The body is arranged to removably receive an image reading unit having a surface defining a second media support for collecting the printed media.

A printhead assembly for a wallpaper printing system that includes a casing; a printhead module, the printhead module comprised of a plurality of printhead tiles arranged substantially along the length of the printhead module; a fluid channel member held within the casing adjacent the printhead module, the fluid channel member including a plurality of ducts, fluid within each of the ducts being in fluid communication with each of the printhead tiles; and, each printhead tile including a printhea...

A portable printer for printing out small, typically business card size, sheets using a pagewidth inkjet printhead. At one end of the printer there is provided a PCMCIA plug for interconnection with a PC card slot. In one form of the invention, the entire printer and paper supply cartridge are approximately the size of a PCMCIA type III card.

A capping device for a printhead assembly of a pagewidth drop on demand ink jet printer is formed of spring steel and includes an elastomeric onsert having a series of recesses which create chambers positioned over air inlet and exhaust holes of each printhead module of the assembly. These allow the air to flow from one inlet to the next outlet. When the capping device is moved to its capped position, the airways are sealed off so as to prevent air from drying out and therefore blocking the deli...