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Image acquisition device with integral ink jet printing

  • US 20020171693A1
  • Filed: 05/15/2001
  • Published: 11/21/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/15/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A handheld image acquisition apparatus comprising:

  • a first housing having mounted therein;

    (a) an image acquisition device;

    (b) processing circuitry coupled to said image acquisition device and configured to receive image data from said image acquisition device and to process said image data into pixel data forming a plurality of image planes of different colors;

    (c) an ink jet printing apparatus comprising (1) an ink receiving media drive member configured to advance ink receiving media in a first direction and (2) a scanning ink jet print head coupled to receive said pixel data and to eject droplets of liquid ink onto said ink receiving media in accordance with said pixel data by repeated motion transverse to said first direction of media advance; and

    a second housing insertable into and removable from said first housing, said second housing containing sheets of said ink receiving media.

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