| 摘要 |
The invention concerns apparatus and method for printing onto lenticular material. Lenticular material has particularly onerous alignment requirements which, until now, has meant that it has not been possible to print upon such material on an automated home user basis. The apparatus and method of the present invention, utilise a feed cylinder 30 which incorporates grooves 311-31n which are dimensionally arranged to correspond with lens dimensions of a preferred lenticular material size. The feed cylinder 30, as it rotates about a central longitudinal axis 33, aligns and feeds input lenticular material into a printer to be printed upon. The cylinder 30 can also be used with other print media such as paper, transparencies etc, by providing the cylinder 30 with ridges 32 between the grooves 311-31n. With such conventional material, the ridges 32 grip the media as it is fed into the printer.
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