Rotatable Display Interface for Digital Printer Docking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional digital printers face challenges in flexibility and accessibility due to their design, making it difficult to store and use them efficiently, especially when equipped with status indicators, image displays, and docking capabilities, limiting user convenience and functionality.
Innovation Solution
A digital printer with an adjustably mounted display device interface that allows for multiple positional orientations while maintaining electrical connectivity, enabling flexible placement and easy access to controls and displays, and a rotatable docking interface for improved usability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the printer is arranged with the front end facing outward on a shelf, then the user can access controls and view displays, but the printer cannot be stored on shelves with limited depth
Solution Approach 1:
The display device interface is made rotatable to allow dynamic repositioning. The interface can rotate between facing the front end and facing the rear end of the printer, enabling the same printer to be used in different spatial configurations depending on shelf depth and user access needs.
Solution Approach 2:
The solution adds rotational freedom to the display interface, transforming a fixed linear arrangement into a multi-dimensional configuration. This allows the interface to be oriented in different directions (front or rear) without changing the printer's physical footprint on the shelf.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the display device interface is fixed in position, then the electrical connection is stable, but the user cannot access controls when standing at different positions
Solution Approach 1:
The display device interface incorporates a rotatable mounting mechanism that allows the interface to be dynamically repositioned between facing the front end and facing the rear end of the printer. This dynamic capability enables users to access controls and view displays from different positions without requiring multiple printers or complex reconfiguration.
Data Source
AI summary
In one aspect of the invention, a printer is provided for use with a display device having images stored in a memory therein, a display device controller, and an image display for displaying the stored images. The printer has an external structure housing a print engine and receiver medium transport adapted to cooperate to cause donor materials to be transferred to a receiver medium in an imagewise fashion; a display device interface being adapted to receive the display device and to position the display device so that a display device electrical connector can form an electrical connection with the electrical interface; and a printer processor adapted to transmit signals to the display device controller influencing what is presented on the image display; wherein the display device interface is adjustably mounted to the external structure.