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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8174550 | Printer A printer includes a feeding unit, a conveying unit, a print unit to print information on an intermediate transfer film or a print medium, a transfer unit to transfer the information printed on the intermediate transfer film to a transferred article, a winding unit,... | 05/08/2012 |
| 7911490 | Printer A printer comprises a transfer assembly 56 for transferring a print image formed on an intermediate transfer sheet 42 to a print surface of a print medium 100, a print tray 12 on which the print medium 100 is placed, and a retainin... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7876345 | Ink set and image forming apparatus and method The ink set includes: a first liquid which contains a coloring material, a polymer, and a dispersion medium composed of water and water-soluble solvent, the coloring material and the polymer being dispersed in the dispersion medium, the coloring material having prop... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7843477 | Thermal sublimation card printers and associated method for printing image onto card Thermal sublimation card printers and associated method for printing image onto a card are disclosed. One proposed method includes receiving target image data; moving a card; transferring dyes of a ribbon onto the card according to the target image data while moving... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7675533 | Thermal transfer printer for film A thermal transfer printer for film capable of thermal transfer printing on a plastic film. The thermal transfer printer for film is provided with a conveyance for conveying the plastic film along a predetermined path, an ink ribbon moving mechanism which includes a... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7639269 | Printer and ink sheet A printer transfers to one image formation area a plurality of single colors of ink repeatedly arranged in a longitudinal direction of the ink sheet, to thus produce in an image formation area of an intermediate transfer sheet a transfer image formed as a result of ... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7626604 | Thermal transfer printing machine A thermal transfer printing machine 10 for thermally transferring image information on an information carrying medium to a printing medium is provided. The thermal transfer printing machine 10 includes a first platen roller 11 adapted so as to b... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7479975 | Printer A printer includes an ink cartridge mounted on a main body, ink contained in the ink cartridge, a discriminating member attached to the ink cartridge and having information recorded with on the ink cartridge, the ink cartridge being discriminated by the information ... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7477275 | Thermal activation apparatus and printer To smoothly transport a heat-sensitive adhesive sheet having a heat-sensitive adhesive layer on one surface, while a damage or peeling off of the heat-sensitive adhesive layer is suppressed. A thermal activation apparatus includes a thermal head for heating a heat-s... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7474323 | Print apparatus, ribbon movement control device, ribbon film, ribbon movement control method, and program A print apparatus includes a print unit that records a print pattern with a thermal head and a ribbon film, the ribbon film having a base film on which transfer-material areas and margin areas including cue marks are arranged; a cue-mark detector that detects the cu... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7471304 | Card manufacturing method and apparatus thereof A card manufacturing method for manufacturing the card and a card manufacturing apparatus for manufacturing the card are provided. The card 51 includes a card base 1, a first receptor layer 1a arranged on one side of the card base 1 | 12/30/2008 |
| 7411164 | Device for inductive injection of thermal energy into a printing form for fixing an image An image fixing device inductively injects thermal energy into a rotating printing form of a press for fixing an image formed on the rotating printing form by means of a digital imaging system. The fixing device has at least one inductor with at least one induction ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7358981 | Image formation device and image formation method In order to avoid a load change which occurs when seam O passes by the heads affect image information, a dyeing layer transfer head and recording heads are located in equal intervals having length P, which is obtained by equally dividing an entire circumference K of... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7336919 | Multilayer fuser member including current elements A fuser member adapted to fuse toner onto the surface of a recording medium as the recording medium passes a nip area of the fuser member comprises a electrically conductive polymer layer, a resistive layer, an electrically conductive layer, a primer layer, and a re... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7324124 | Printer and method for detecting donor material Thermal printers and methods for operating a thermal printer that applies donor material from donor patches on a donor ribbon to a received medium, the donor material being organized into sets, each set including at least one colored donor material patch and a prote... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321449 | Gloss-imparting device and color image-forming apparatus A gloss-imparting device for imparting a gloss on a color image, the gloss-imparting device has a transparent toner image-carrying body, a transparent toner image-forming unit, a heating/pressurizing unit, and a cooling/releasing unit. The transparent toner image-ca... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7307648 | Printing apparatus and method for passbooks A passbook printing apparatus comprises a movable tension roller correcting slack of an intermediate transfer film resulting from a different in a feed speed between a film drive roller and a film wind-up reel, and a control device operating the film wind-up reel to... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7303344 | Label printing apparatus A thermal transfer-type label printer and an optical disc apparatus are integrated to miniaturize a multi-function label printing apparatus. An information recording/reproducing unit that carries out recording or reproduction of information on a recording surface of... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7303273 | Heated roll system for drying printed media A system and method for drying a printed medium includes a heated roll and a transport mechanism which moves the printed medium against the heated roll to dry the printed medium. ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7286150 | Thermal transfer printing A method of printing a fluorescent image on a surface of a receiver medium comprises forming on the surface by a thermal dye transfer printing process a first image of a first fluorescent dye; and forming on the first image by a thermal dye transfer printing process... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7202970 | Method and system of printing identification card (ID) using an inkjet printer The present invention is embodied in a printing system for printing identification cards with durable full-color images using an inkjet printing device. In general, the present invention provides an inkjet printing device that is used to print images on a plastic id... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7195410 | Printing apparatus having means fixing ink ribbon unit and intermediate transfer sheet unit in printer body The printing apparatus comprises a first detachable unit U1, a second detachable unit U2, and a main body unit U5 formed such that the first and second detachable units U1 and U2 are detachably mounted thereto. When a unit fixing m... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7185979 | Transferring pressure roll, transferring unit and ink jet recording apparatus The transferring pressure roll comprises a roll main body and an elastic material layer which covers the surface of the roll main body and comes in contact with a transferring film during pressing and the hardness of the elastic material constituting the elastic mat... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7184068 | Subsurface imaged labels and tags using thermal transfer ribbon carrier as overlaminate and method of manufacture A subsurfaced imaged label using a PET thermal transfer ribbon carrier as an overlaminate. A reverse image is printed onto a waste medium. The waste medium and inked reverse image are stripped away. The desired image remains on the PET carrier of the thermal transfe... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7173643 | Printing apparatus A printing apparatus includes a printing device for selectively forming an image on a recording medium and a transfer medium, and a platen roller arranged opposite to the printing device. A nipping roller is arranged for nipping the transfer medium with the platen r... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7151554 | Thermal image recording apparatus A thermal image recording apparatus has: a thermal head having a glaze in which thermal recording dots are arranged in a one direction, the thermal head conducting thermal recording on a thermal recording material that is to be in contact with the glaze, and transpo... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7146850 | Roll contour measuring apparatus and method A non-contact apparatus and method for precision measurement of the surface characteristics of work rolls which are used in the manufacture of sheet steel and other sheet metal products. The apparatus and method can be used to accurately measure the parameters of cr... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7133059 | Image forming method Transports cards to an image forming portion, and turns cards over after forming images on one side of cards at the image forming portion. Transports an intermediate transfer sheet to an image forming portion, forms images on the intermediate transfer sheet at the i... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7133060 | Method for applying images to wax articles A method for applying an image to a target wax article is provided. The method comprises the steps: a) forming a reverse of the image on wax-coated transfer paper; b) transferring and reversing the reverse image to produce the image on the surface of a carrier wax a... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7124670 | Method and apparatus for estimating a life-span of a cutter An apparatus for estimating a lifetime of a cutter for cutting a sheet comprising: a detector for detecting a value of a parameter representing a cutting resistance during sheet cutting; a comparator for comparing the detected value of the parameter with a predeterm... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7119823 | Retransfer printing method and printing apparatus thereof In a process of peeling off a transfer layer of an intermediate transfer film, an amount of energy, which is supplied to a thermal head 3 so as to heat the thermal head 3, is changed in accordance with a location of the thermal head 3 in a peeli... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7102660 | Thermal transfer printing An article for receiving an image by thermal transfer printing includes an image-receiving surface of plastics material coated with a layer of dye-receptive material capable of accepting an image by means of a dye thermal transfer process, wherein the glass transiti... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7090890 | Modification of polymer optoelectronic properties after film formation by impurity addition or removal The methods of this invention involve modification of the properties of an organic film after it has been deposited by either adding new components into it from its top or bottom surface, or by causing components to leave the film from its top or bottom surface. In ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7086713 | Media detack from an intermediate printing member An inkjet printer for printing on a print medium having an obverse side and a reverse side, including a rotating intermediate transfer member for receiving a print image and transferring the print image to the obverse side of the print medium and a rotating drag for... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7077311 | Document transport control system A document transport control system for controlling the throughput rate of the document transport, the document transport has a preset throughput rate. The system includes a smart card for storing data including a throughput rate which is greater than the preset thr... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7074477 | Transfer label A transfer label comprises a support layer (1), further an overprint layer (5) detachably affixed by adhesive to the support layer (1) and affixable to an object, and a protective film (3) mounted between the support layer (1) and ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7070269 | Recording method and apparatus with an intermediate transfer medium based on transfer-type recording mechanism An apparatus and method for recording an image using a transfer-type recording mechanism are such that a layer of an intermediate transfer element is removably formed on a surface of an intermediate transfer medium. The intermediate transfer element includes an ultr... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7040734 | Belt conveying mechanism for ink-jet recording apparatus and ink-jet recording apparatus including it An ink-jet printer comprises a belt conveying mechanism including two rollers, a conveyor belt stretched between the rollers to convey a paper, and the like. A recessed portion is formed on a surface of the conveyor belt, and a plurality of protrusions serving as an... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7037013 | Ink-receptive card substrate In a method of forming an ink-receptive card substrate, an ink-receptive material is provided. The ink-receptive material includes a backing layer and an ink-receptive coating on a surface of the backing layer. Next, a card member is provided. Finally, the ink-recep... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7034856 | Receiving cloth for thermal transfer recording, and method of thermal transfer recording using the cloth A receiving cloth for thermal transfer recording, including at least a substrate formed of a woven or nonwoven fabric, having opposed sides; an ink receiving layer on one side of the substrate, which receives a heat-melted or softened ink; and a tackifying layer on ... | 04/25/2006 |
