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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110249070 | Thermal transfer printhead and printing system using such a printhead A printhead and print system is provided that includes a printer and a control unit connected by a cable. The printhead has a printed circuit board that is modified to include a digital thermometer having a non-volatile memory programmed with the printhead resistance. T... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110063394 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING THERMAL PRINTING A method of controlling thermal printing based upon print density. The method includes receiving pre-formatted data representing information to be printed on two sides of a thermal print media from a computer by a processor of a thermal printer, analyzing the pre-format... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20100309273 | IMAGING PATTERNS OF FEATURES WITH SKEWED EDGES A method is provided for forming an image of a pattern of features on media which includes determining a pitch of the features along first and second directions and determining a first size of a first pixel based at least on the pitch of the features along the first dir... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100118101 | Thermal transfer printer A thermal transfer printer includes: an ink ribbon conveyor unit that conveys an ink ribbon; a sheet conveyor unit that conveys a sheet; a dummy pattern generation unit that generates a dummy pattern; an image data generation unit that generates print image data joining... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100085408 | Printing method for thermal printer, computer program, and thermal printer apparatus To reduce sticking without increasing a print time period in a thermal printer, a printing method comprises: an energizing start delay time calculating procedure of calculating delay time from end of paper feed of the thermal paper until start of energizing of the therm... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20090153639 | METHOD TO FORM LATENT IMAGE ON OVERCOAT LAYER, VISUALIZING METHOD OF LATENT IMAGE, AND VISUALIZING TOOL EMPLOYED WITH PRINTER DEVICE FORMING LATENT IMAGE AND VISUALIZING METHOD A method of forming a latent image portion on an overcoat layer by a difference in surface brilliance, at the time of layering an overcoat layer on a thermal transfer subject sheet by a heat transfer method, includes the steps of: setting at least two types of applied e... | 06/18/2009 |
| 20090122128 | TACHOGRAPH FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE, PAPER STRIP FOR A TACHOGRAPH AND METHOD FOR ALIGNING A LONGITUDINALLY DISPLACEABLE PAPER STRIP WITH RESPECT TO A PRINTING DEVICE IN A TACHOGRAPH A paper strip (6) for a tachograph (1) has a series of marks (17, 18) which extend transversely with respect to its direction of movement in the tachograph (1). The marks (17, 18) are of different lengths and are sensed by a sensor ( 05/14/2009 | |
| 20090009579 | Thermal Printer The thermal printer of the present invention is a thermal printer for printing on a print medium by thermally transferring an ink ribbon by means of a thermal head, wherein the thermal printer comprises a density controller for keeping the print density of the thermal h... | 01/08/2009 |
| 20080297582 | THERMAL PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD THEREOF The present invention discloses a thermal printing apparatus and printing method thereof. The thermal printing apparatus includes a memory unit and a control unit. The method of the present invention includes storing at least a predetermined control mapping table, the p... | 12/04/2008 |
| 20080012928 | Producing standard format and wide-format prints with efficient donor material use Standard format images having a length L in a print direction and wide-format images having a length greater than 2L in the print direction can be selectively printed from the same set of donor patches. At least one print order is received at a thermal printer re... | 01/17/2008 |
| 20070273743 | DOUBLE-SIDE PRINTER SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF The embodiments of the present invention relate to a double-side printer system in which two thermal heads printing print data on a front face and a back face of a thermal recording paper in which thermo-sensitive layers are formed on both sides are provided, and when t... | 11/29/2007 |
| 20070030330 | Thermal recording method and system employing edge printing An imaging device (30) comprising an array of individually controllable thermal recording elements (36) and a controller (34). Controller (34) is configured to receive an input signal (42) and, based on input signal (42), is con... | 02/08/2007 |
| 20060290770 | Parametric programmable thermal printer A parametric programmable thermal printer is disclosed. The printer may include a controller that performs functions such as thermal history control and common mode voltage correction. The controller may be implemented in an integrated programmable medium such as a Fiel... | 12/28/2006 |
| 20060203076 | Method and apparatus for analyzing an imaging material to enable adjustment to the development of the imaging material A method and apparatus for analyzing a test image on an imaging material and using that analysis to adjust a device(s) and/or method for developing a main, i.e., desired, image on an imaging material. The apparatus and method can be useful for so-called digital or analo... | 09/14/2006 |
| 20060192839 | Method and apparatus for measuring optical density of image printed on medium A method and apparatus are provided for measuring the optical density of an image printed on a medium in an image forming apparatus. The method includes the steps of reading reference information from a memory, measuring the amount of light reflected from a medium on wh... | 08/31/2006 |
| 20060176358 | Method of adjusting strobe length in a thermal printer to reduce effects of changes in media transport speed A thermal printing apparatus and a method of controlling a thermal printing apparatus is provided wherein the duration of the strobe pulse utilized to transfer the ink from the carrier to the media is controlled and adjusted by a correction factor. The correction factor... | 08/10/2006 |
| 20060158507 | Thermal printer A thermal printer performs printing on a paper based on printing density data input. The thermal printer includes a thermal head having at least one heating element; a temperature detector which detects a temperature of the thermal head; and a control part which is conn... | 07/20/2006 |
| 20060152573 | Method and apparatus for controlling the uniformity of print density of a thermal print head array A method for controlling the print density of individual heating elements of a thermal print head array determines respective energy values for each heating element in response to image pixel data to be printed, multiplies determined energy values by a respective predet... | 07/13/2006 |
| 20060132582 | IMAGING PROCESSING METHOD BY ADJUSTING HEATING TIME A method for image processing by adjusting heating time includes providing a first heating table corresponding to a relationship between a first color density and a first heating time and a second heating table corresponding to a relationship between a color degree and ... | 06/22/2006 |
| 20050219346 | Thermal printing method Method of generating a sharpened image in a thermal printer having an internal thermal model module that converts input values into power values for each element of a thermal head and for each printing cycle. Input values to be fed into the internal thermal model are ob... | 10/06/2005 |
| 20050168562 | Image forming apparatus and density unevenness preventing method A system controller of a color thermal printer obtains a density profile of an image with respect to a feeding direction of a color thermal recording paper based on density of a test print measured by a CCD line sensor, and then extracts a density unevenness component, ... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050041090 | Printing system using thermal printer A printing system using a thermal printer capable of readily visually discriminating the background data and sales data, saving waste of paper resources and improving the printing speed is provided. When printing basic data and background data in superimposition on each... | 02/24/2005 |
