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Printer stand

Office automation has been greatly promoted everywhere in recent years. A variety of office machines have been commonly used in offices. Computers and their peripheral equipment have become universal over the past generation. The advent of the computer created a need for stand-alone printers. Prefolded paper, sometimes referred to as continuous recording web or printing stock, is used with computer printers to provide continuous paper feed. Printers are frequently used in combination with personal computers in order to obtain hard copies of the data stored in the computer's memory. Desktop computer printers are designed to feed automatically into the printer a stack of fanfold computer paper. A slot through which the computer paper is fed into the printer may be located in the top, the bottom or the back of the printer. For a relatively higher speed desk top computer printer, the computer paper is fed in through a slot oriented across from side-to-side in the bottom of the printer. Since the computer paper is fed into the computer through the slot in the bottom of the computer printer, a stack of fanfold computer paper must be located below the computer printer. Computer printer stands are designed to hold the computer printer high enough above the surface of a desk or of a table so that a stack of fanfold computer paper can be located directly under the computer printer. The continuous strip of computer paper from the stack feeds readily through the slot into the bottom of the computer printer. A variety of printer stands and support devices have been developed in which a peripheral printer is supported above a support surface to permit storage of a supply of printer paper under the printer. The stand also may position the printer at a particular selected angle to the support surface. Printer stands employ a basically box-like base on which a computer printer is placed during normal operation. The printer used with such stands is typically of the relatively small, desk-top type commonly employed with personal computers, which is normally fed from a packet of fanned computer print-out paper, and which produces print-out copy in a continuous strip readily foldable into a fanned packet like that from which the printer is fed.

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