Dual mode interchangeable modules cut sheet or web printing system with a single xerographic cut sheet print engine

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A plural mode printing system utilizing a cut sheet print engine for printing conventional cut sheet print substrates in which page print images are generated and transferred to the cut sheets at an image transfer station. This plural mode printing system selectively provides printing onto either the cut sheets or onto an uncutcontinuous web printing substrate in the same cut sheet print engine. An independently moveable continuous web printing substrate supply module is selectively operatively docked with the cut sheet print engine. That web printing module has a web feeding and image transfer assistance system for feeding the continuous web uncut into the cut sheet printing engine for …