Skew correction for a media feed mechanism

摘要

A media feed mechanism includes a picking device (12), a first feedroller (14) and a second feedroller (21). The picking device (12) picks a sheet of media (13) from a media source. The first feedroller (14) moves the sheet of media (13) along a feed media path. During initial feeding of the sheet of media (13), the first feedroller (14) rolls in a forward direction feeding the sheet of media (13) forward and the second feedroller (21) turns in a reverse direction preventing the sheet of media (13) from progressing past a nip (19) of the second feedroller (21). This results in skew correction. After skew correction is performed, the second feedroller (21) turns in the forward direction advancing the sheet of media (13) for printing.