公开(公告)号：US20200079124A1

公开(公告)日：2020-03-12

申请号：US16567734

申请日：2019-09-11

Applicant: Entrust Datacard Corporation

Inventor： Scott SVENSSON ,  Bryan HOEVE ,  Donald GALLES

IPC: B41J29/12 ,  B41J3/28

Abstract: A plastic card printer that is provided with a printhead guard that is movable between a covering position, where the printhead guard covers one or more sensitive portions of a printhead of the plastic card printer, and a non-covering position, where the printhead guard does not cover the one or more sensitive portions of the printhead thereby allowing the printhead to perform a printing function on a plastic card. The printhead guard can be at the covering position when the printhead is at a non-printing position, for example during servicing of the card printer, to protect the one or more sensitive elements when the printhead is at the non-printing position, and the printhead guard can be at the non-covering position when the printhead is at a printing position where the printhead is ready to perform printing.