Guide unit for positioning trays in edible ink printer

Details Guide unit for positioning trays in edible ink printer Guide unit for positioning trays in edible ink printer

2002-08-20

2010-11-23

Luu, Matthew (Department: 2861)

Incremental printing of symbolic information

Ink jet

Controller

C347S004000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07837286

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for printing a visual image on food items (20) has a printing station provided with a printer (12) connected to the computer and having software for directly printing the image on the exposed surface of the food item. The printing station includes a frame, at least one tray receiving the food item and displaceably supported on the frame, a printer head and a guide mechanism operative to linearly displace the tray so that a distance between the printer head and the exposed surface of the food item remains uniform as the tray is displaced along the travel direction.

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