Consumable for printing device, with reels attachable to each other

摘要

The consumable has an emitter reel (110) carrying a roller of band material e.g. printing ribbon, whose end is attached to a receiver reel (150). The reel (110) has housings (112) which open on a peripheral edge (113) of a flange (111) and the receiver reel (150) has pilot points (152) which extend in projection from the lateral inner side of a flange (151). The pilot point is driven in the respective housing till the detent of a portion of the head of the pilot point in a receptacle (116) of the reel (110) to lock the reels in rotation around an axis parallel to the reels.