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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7275883 | Method for stacking tickets in a printer Methods are provided for driving sheets through a transaction-based printer. A sheet drive forwards a sheet through a printing station to a cutting station where the sheet is severed from a spool by a cutter. Movement of a kicker element is coordinated with that of ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7275800 | Printing cartridge having IC device for interfacing with printing system A printing cartridge for a printing system is provided. The printing cartridge comprises a housing configured so as to be insertable within a printing system and an integrated circuit device positioned on the housing so as to interface with the printing system when ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7277199 | Imaging system and media supply for use in imaging system A media supply is provided for use in an imaging device having an entry port. The media supply has a housing defining a media storage area to hold media, an opening to receive media, and a device engagement surface shaped for insertion into the entry port A media en... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7270494 | Easy assembly printer media transport arrangement A printer including: at least one elongate roller arranged, in use, to rotate so as to transport print media within the printer; a support frame for supporting the roller at the longitudinal first and second ends of the roller so as to allow the rotation of the roll... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7270492 | Computer system having integrated printer and keyboard A computer system is provided comprising a computer, a keyboard peripheral of the computer, and a pagewidth printer peripheral of the computer. The pagewidth printer is disposed within a housing of the keyboard. ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7267419 | Method for liquid ejection and liquid ejecting apparatus A method for liquid ejection includes the steps of: moving nozzles, which eject a liquid, in a movement direction; supporting a medium with a plurality of supporting sections that are arranged at different positions in the movement direction; and forming a plurality... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7267501 | Image forming apparatus having a pickup roller for driving a discharge roller An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that prints an image on a medium. A transport unit transports the medium in a first direction to supply the medium to the image forming unit, and in a second direction for printing. Media is stacked on a pape... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7264239 | Feeding device for feeding recording medium A feeding device for feeding a recording medium in a feed direction, including: a drive roller having an annular recess; and a driven roller rotatably held and positioned such that a radially outer end portion of the driven roller is positioned within the annular re... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7264347 | Recording-medium conveying device conveying a recording medium on a conveying belt charged with a positive charge and a negative charge alternately This recording-medium conveying device comprises a conveying belt, the conveying belt, a belt charging unit, and a pressing roller. The conveying belt is wound around a driving roller and a driven roller so as to convey a recording medium to an image recording part.... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7261477 | Method of on-demand printing A method of producing on-demand wallpaper for sale to a consumer, the method including the steps of: providing a printing system for producing wallpaper comprising: at least one media cartridge containing a blank media web; a print... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7263326 | Paper feed cassette for image forming apparatus Storage box for storing stacked recording mediums comprises a two-part structure consisting of in-apparatus mounting portion and out-apparatus mounting portion which are coupled via a rotational support mechanism. In-apparatus mounting portion and out-apparatus moun... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7262786 | Image aligning method for thermal imaging printer An image aligning method for a thermal imaging device includes picking up a thermal imaging medium that has a first surface and a second surface on which printing operations may be performed respectively from a medium container. An edge of the medium is fed a first ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7258500 | Media processing apparatus and scanner unit The media processing apparatus has a first transportation path for guiding the check, a second transportation path and a third transportation path that diverge from the first transportation path, a front scanner that is rendered along the first transportation path f... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7258424 | Printer with a MEMS printhead A printer provided with a micro-electro-mechanical printhead for producing wallpaper, the printer comprising: a micro-electro-mechanical printhead extending at least the width of a media web; drive means to drive the media web past the printhead; at least one proces... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7258067 | Drying equipment for high speed printer Drying equipment to aid drying of a web of freshly printed media, the equipment having a feed path along which the freshly printed web is fed by a drive means, and a drying fluid supply means that directs drying fluid across the web along the extent of the feed path... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7258433 | Array inkjet head and inkjet image forming apparatus having the same An array inkjet head includes a body in which a space for accommodating ink is formed. A nozzle unit is formed on the body, and ejects ink from the body. The length of the nozzle unit substantially corresponds to the width of printing paper in a main scanning direct... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7258435 | Inkjet printer with a media tray for sheets of print media and an ink cartridge An inkjet printer includes a chassis. A pagewidth printhead assembly is mounted on the chassis and defines a pagewidth printing zone through which sheets of print media are fed. A media tray is mounted on the chassis, upstream of the printhead assembly. The media tr... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7255179 | Cultivator sweep assembly A cultivator sweep assembly having a sweep adapted for releasable attachment to a shank of a mobile agricultural apparatus. The sweep assembly includes a sweep having a more narrow profile, and a coupling attached to a tapered end portion of the shank and disposed b... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7255414 | Printing cartridge with capacitive sensor identification A printing cartridge (1230) includes a housing (1231). An actuating formation (1240) is positioned on the housing and is capable of actuating a number of capacitive sensors (1238) in an array of such sensors. The actuating formation is co... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7255646 | Video gaming console with printer apparatus A video gaming console comprising a housing, the housing incorporating a receptacle for receiving detachable storage means, the detachable storage means containing a computer gaming program, the housing including: communication means for receiving interaction data f... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7252283 | Paper-pickup clutch of automatic paper-feeding device A paper-pickup clutch of an automatic paper-feeding device includes a clamping member and a clamping-force adjusting member and can be applied to image processors such as printers, copiers or scanners. The automatic paper-feeding device includes a shaft and a paper-... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7252285 | Method and apparatus for aligning a media sheet An alignment device for aligning a manually loaded media sheet to a printer feed path has at least one registration feature disposed to register the trailing edge of the media sheet to the feed path. By aligning the trailing edge, an orthogonal media sheet is loaded... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7252448 | Platen Embodiments of a platen are shown and described. ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7249904 | Modular printer for double-sided high-speed printing A modular printer includes a frame. A housing in which the frame is housed has an operatively upper and an operatively lower cover and defines a print media inlet at one end between the covers and a print media outlet at an opposite end between the covers. An inlet ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7250958 | Method of printing thermal media by aligning image A method for printing on a thermal medium by aligning test patterns comprises the steps of feeding a thermal medium to a print starting position of the medium beyond a predetermined distance from a heating elements of a thermal printhead; printing a first test patte... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7249839 | Printing cartridge that incorporates a sheet transport mechanism A printing cartridge is engageable with a printer and includes a casing. The casing has a print media supply portion in which sheets of print media are stored and an ink supply portion that houses an ink supply for use by the printer. A sheet transport mechanism is ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7246963 | Image forming device A laser beam printer includes a casing with a discharge tray disposed on the top surface of the casing. A cutout part is formed in the top surface of the casing and an opening is formed in the front surface of the casing for facilitating mounting and removal of a pr... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7246962 | Exit roller system for an imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus includes a print engine having a print zone. A print media feed system transports a sheet of print media in a media feed direction along a media feed path through the print zone. The print media feed system includes a plurality of exit rollers p... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7246897 | Media cartridge for inkjet printhead A media cartridge for supplying a roll print media to a printhead via a drive roller assembly, wherein at least one of the rollers in the assembly is sized and positioned so that the media wraps around its surface to remove residual curl in the media caused by stora... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7248376 | Printer module with a pen-like configuration A printer module includes a body that defines a print media feed path and a feed opening to permit print media to be positioned in the print media feed path. A pagewidth printing mechanism is positioned in the body to carry out a printing operation on the print medi... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7246898 | Recording method, recording apparatus and computer-readable storage medium The present invention is a recording method for recording by ejecting liquid onto a medium. The medium is carried in a carrying direction, the medium carried is supported by a protruding section of a support member having a recessed section and the protruding sectio... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7246957 | Serial printer with print-medium detecting function A print head and a detector are mounted on a carriage of a serial printer. An information acquiring portion acquires information for determining whether to detect a print medium. An existence-detection determining portion determines whether to detect existence of th... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7243915 | Input/output trays for hardcopy device The illustrated input and output trays are pivotally attached to the hardcopy device and are movable between a processing position and a storage position. ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7244072 | Sheet recording apparatus with dual nip transport An apparatus for recording an image onto a sheet medium (12) has an entrance nip (14) for transporting the sheet medium (12) into an image recording section (20). A write head (56) records onto a portion of the sheet medium (12 | 07/17/2007 |
| 7245869 | Paper supply unit and an image forming apparatus having the same A paper supply unit including a front cover mounted to a main body of the image forming apparatus to occupy and move between open and closed positions, and, when occupying the opened position, defining a paper receiving space in which printing paper is to be stacked... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7240985 | Ink jet printhead having two dimensional shuttle architecture An ink jet printer has a printhead with ink droplet ejecting nozzles that moves in a two dimensional direction across a movable recording medium or intermediate surface. The recording medium or intermediate surface is moved in a first direction with a constant veloc... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7240992 | Ink jet printhead incorporating a plurality of nozzle arrangement having backflow prevention mechanisms An ink jet printhead includes a substrate that defines a plurality of ink inlets. A drive circuitry layer is positioned on the substrate. A plurality of nozzle arrangements is arranged on the substrate. Each nozzle arrangement includes a nozzle chamber structure pos... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7242895 | Image heating apparatus having a flexible sleeve An object of the present invention is to provide an image heating apparatus having a flexible sleeve of an excellent durability. To this end, an image heating apparatus according to the present invention includes: a flexible sleeve; a driving roller contacting an ex... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7237890 | Inkjet printing apparatus An inkjet type fabric printing apparatus is provided with an inkjet head, a platen and a positioning member. The inkjet head reciprocally moves in main scanning direction and auxiliary scanning direction relative to a fabric (e.g., clothes). The platen holds the fab... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7239407 | Controller for controlling printing on both surfaces of a sheet of print media A controller for controlling printing on both surfaces of a sheet of print media includes a first print controller for controlling printing by a page width printhead of a first print engine and a second print controller for controlling printing by a page with printh... | 07/03/2007 |
