Multifuntion printers can be grouped into two types depending on their applications. Some multifuntion printers embody printing functionality along with copying, facsimile and/or scanning functionality. Another type of multifunction printers are employed for a plurality of different print objects. In recent years, with the great advancements in office automation technology, a printer serving as computer peripheral equipment, a copying machine, or a facsimile machine serving as communication means are now widely used. This type of multifunction printer is especially effective for use in a small office since it has only a small installation space. There are several kinds of multifunction printers in which these functions are variously combined. Multifunction printers have the capability of printing on several different types of record media in accordance with the requirements of a user's business. This type of multifunction printers are employed in financial institutions, by postal offices, by communal administrations, in all kinds of state and federal offices, and in trade. Such multifunction printers can print documents, checks, savings booklets, protocols, minutes, records, registers, invoices, debit memos, vouchers, driver's licenses, passports, personal identity cards, motor vehicle documents, as well as BTX texts and TTX texts. Printing on these different types of record media in a multi-function printer is typically carried out by a dot matrix printhead which is mounted in the printer for reciprocating traversing movement across the different record media for serial printing of the requied data.
