Apparatus, method, and computer program product for pad transfer

Abstract

The present invention includes apparatus and method for image transfer onto one of a plurality of a pad medium pages while the pages are aggregated together. A preferred embodiment for a printer includes a housing; a print engine, within the housing, for transferring an image to a transfer medium when the transfer medium is located at a print position; and a transfer medium registration system, coupled to the print engine, for positioning a pad including a plurality of transfer media releasably secured to one another, wherein the print registration system locates one of the transfer media at the print position. The method including positioning a pad at a print position of a print transfer engine, the pad including a plurality of transfer media releasably secured to one another; and transferring an image to one of the transfer media positioned at the print position.

1 . An image transfer apparatus, comprising: 
 an image transfer engine disposed proximate a transfer registration system including a pad of a plurality of laminar elements and a stripper wherein said plurality of laminar elements are releasably bound together to produce said pad, said transfer registration system positions one of said laminar elements at an image transfer location; and    a control system, coupled to a memory and to said image transfer engine, for transferring an image in said memory onto at least one laminar element.    
   
   
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       22 . An image transfer method, the method comprising: 
 receiving a voice input at a pad transfer system having: an image transfer engine transferring an image to a laminar element of a pad, a transfer registration system for receiving said pad and positioning said laminar element at an image transfer location, said pad including a plurality of releasably bound laminar elements; and responding to said voice input to control said image transfer engine.    
   
   
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       25 . A computer program product comprising a computer readable medium carrying program instructions for transferring an image using a pad transfer system when executed using a computing system, the executed program instructions executing a method, the method comprising: 
 receiving a voice input at a pad transfer system having an image transfer engine transferring an image to a laminar element of a pad, a transfer registration system for receiving said pad and positioning said laminar element at an image transfer location, said pad including a plurality of releasably bound laminar elements; and responding to said voice input to control said image transfer engine.    
   
   
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