Media cartridge for a low power printer
A media cartridge for a printer has a connector for connecting to the printer and a media storage volume in which sheets of media are stored. A manually operated slider ejects one sheet at a time through an outlet to an input slot of the printer. The printer then draws the sheet past a printhead.
1. A media cartridge including:
a body;
a connector to enable connection of the cartridge to a complementary printer;
a media storage volume within the body in which individual sheets of media are stored;
a media outlet in the media storage volume through which media may be provided to a connected printer, and
a manually driven feed mechanism operable by a user to feed sheets of media one at a time to a connected printer via the outlet.
2. The media cartridge of claim 1 wherein the feed mechanism includes a slider operable by the user.
3. The media cartridge of claim 1 wherein the feed mechanism includes a slider movable along a path between a rest position and an eject position, movement of the slider from the rest to the eject position ejecting a sheet of media from the media storage volume through the media outlet.
4. The combination of a printer and media cartridge,
The printer including:
a printer body;
a media input slot;
a first connector on the printer body, and
a printhead;
the cartridge including:
a cartridge body;
a second connector on the cartridge body engaging the first connector of the printer;
a media storage volume in which individual sheets of media are stored;
a media outlet in the media storage volume through which media may be provided to the media input slot, and
a manually driven feed mechanism operable by a user to feed a sheet of media one at a time to the printer via the outlet.
5. The combination of claim 4 wherein the feed mechanism includes a slider operable by the user.
6. The combination of claim 4 wherein the feed mechanism includes a slider movable along a path between a rest position and an eject position, movement of the slider from the rest to the eject position ejecting a sheet of media.
7. The combination of claim 4 wherein the printer includes a media feeder adjacent the input slot and a sensor that senses the presence of media in or adjacent the input slot, the media feeder operated to draw media detected by the sensor past the printhead.