Staas & Halsey LLP
Paper discharge unit for an inkjet printer
A paper discharge unit for an inkjet printer which ejects a sheet on which image printing is completed by an ink cartridge out of a printer main body. The paper discharge unit for an inkjet printer includes paper discharge rollers rotatably mounted in the printer main body to feed the printing-completed sheet out of the printer main body; and paper discharge guides disposed downstream of the paper discharge rollers in a direction the sheet is fed, and guiding upward the front end portion of the sheet ejected from the paper discharge rollers to prevent the rear end portion of the sheet from being lifted. Accordingly, the front end portion of the sheet is deformed by the paper discharge guides to restrain the end portion of the sheet facing a nozzle part of the ink cartridge from being in contact with the nozzle part when the sheet is ejected, so that image printing becomes possible up to the end portion of the sheet, to thereby improve the printing efficiency of the inkjet printer.
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
B
B41J
inventional
Youn-gun Yong-duk
Jung Lee