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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8159514 | Printing apparatus A printing apparatus includes an image transfer unit thermally transferring a plurality of color materials onto a recording medium to superimpose images in respective color materials, a medium conveyance unit conveying the recording medium through the image transfer... | 04/17/2012 |
| 7936365 | Printing method and apparatus using shuttle thermal print head A printing method and apparatus using a shuttle thermal print head (TPH), which can print by moving the TPH in a transverse direction. The apparatus and printing method include (a) printing an image on a medium using the TPH while feeding the medium in a positive lo... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7675534 | Printer with short print-to-print cycle times A receiver medium transport system for a thermal printer, a method for operating a receiver medium transport system and a thermal printer are provided that enable the recording of at least a portion of a second superimposed image on a second receiver medium during t... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7479976 | Reversed thermal head printing A printer and method for operating a printer are provided. The printer has a printhead adapted to heat a thermal donor medium to transfer donor material from a donor web to a receiver medium; a receiver medium path having guides shaped to direct receiver medium alon... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7439994 | Thermal transfer line printer A printer capable of printing high-quality recording is provided. A driving force transmission gear mounted on a platen roller, driven rollers mounted on a pair of conveying rollers, respectively, and intermediate gears that always mesh with both the driving force t... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7417658 | Thermal printing mechanism, in particularly applicable to payment terminals A thermal printing mechanism comprises a frame accommodating a motor for driving a print tape, a thermal printing head, a carrying roller and electronic control means. The frame is provided with a metal stiffening plate substantially extending along the length there... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7410162 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus has a chassis, a paper feed roller, a lifting member, and a biasing member. The chassis has a first side surface, a second side surface, and a bottom surface that connects the first and second side surfaces. The bottom surface has one of a... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7387458 | Printer and method of printing with a plurality of selectable registration sensors There is disclosed a portable printer and a method of selectively printing on any one of a plurality of label rolls housed in the printer, or on a wide roll housed in the printer. ... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7365762 | Thermal printing head comprising a printable tape guiding member, in the form of a protection cover for a flexible control printed circuit A thermal printing head comprises a guide member made in a single-piece and designed as a jumper comprising two superimposed walls, covering, at least partly, respectively and jointly both surfaces of a flexible printed circuit board and providing between them a spa... | 04/29/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7352382 | Thermal printer A thermal printer includes an upstream conveying device and a downstream conveying device that are respectively arranged upstream and downstream of a recording device. The upstream conveying device conveys a recording sheet while a first half of a print region that ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7336291 | Thermal image forming apparatus A thermal image forming apparatus to form an image on a recording medium having first and second sides, the apparatus including a recording head to form the image by heating the recording medium, wherein the recording head rotates between first and second locations ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336388 | Hand held printer correlated to fill-out transition print areas The invention relates to a hand-held and hand-operated printing device having a print (2) head assembly comprised in a housing (1) for a hand-held and hand-operated printing controlled by a processor (4), and a method therefore. The position of ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7324237 | Image recording apparatus correcting the image recording position based on the detected result of the recording material This invention relates to an image recording apparatus provided with a transporting unit transporting an image recording material whose shape has at a least one side in a predetermined transporting direction; an image recording position detecting unit detecting a po... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7317468 | Thermal processor employing drum and flatbed technologies A thermal processor for thermally developing an image in an imaging media. The thermal processor includes a drum processor and a flatbed processor. The drum processor forms an arcuate transport path and is configured to move the imaging media along an arcuate transp... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7310911 | Automatic door opener with magnetic clutch An automatic door opener (10) for opening or closing a door (28) includes a motor (14) driving a drive shaft (50) and an opener arm (18) connected to the door (28) and being responsive to rotation of the drive shaft (50 | 12/25/2007 |
| 7309178 | Image formation device An image formation device (facsimile machine, printer, copier, etc.) is provided, which is capable of reducing the amount of ink ribbon rolled up for the removal of slack of the ribbon. When a ribbon roll-up process is started, the operation mode of the image format... | 12/18/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7265868 | Controlled print size for image data The present invention enables to ensure printing the entire desired image. An image data interpreter 21 interprets the header portion of data transmitted by a digital camera to detect the number of dots indicative of height and width of an image to be printed... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7256914 | Optical scanner An optical scanner for scanning a document includes a housing, a glass platform, an optical scanning module and a heat dissipating member. The glass platform is disposed on the housing for placing thereon the document to be scanned. The optical scanning module is di... | 08/14/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7220071 | Apparatus and method for handling linerless label tape An apparatus for printing on a continuous web of linerless tape defined by a print side for subsequent application to an article. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a support for a continuous web of linerless tape; an undriven platen roller located downstream... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7176955 | Image recording apparatus and recording-material feeding method A feeder is provided inside an exposure section of a photographic printer. First and second feed-roller pairs are respectively disposed at an upstream side and a downstream side of an exposing position of the feeder. A first nip roller of the first feed-roller pair ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7168699 | Sheet-processing machine with a sheet brake A sheet-processing machine includes a conveyor for transporting processed sheets at a processing speed and for releasing the sheets for braking to a depositing speed. A braking element serves for the braking of the released sheets to the depositing speed. A drive is... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7145464 | Data collection device In one aspect of the invention a data collection device is provided for use with a medium said medium being usable when exposed to electromagnetic radiation that is characteristic of such use. The data collection device has a sensor capable of sensing when the mediu... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7125184 | Printer with replaceable modules A printer with replaceable modules has a printer and an electronic expansion device. The printer has an operating panel mounted on a top thereof, a connecting mechanism formed on a bottom thereof, and at least one connector mounted on the bottom thereof. The electro... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7104712 | Roll sheet holder and tape printer A tape printer includes a holder support member at one side end in a roll sheet holder storage part in a direction substantially perpendicular to a feeding direction. In the holder support member, a mounting piece which is substantially rectangular in section and fo... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7101100 | Printer apparatus Provided is a printer apparatus, including: a thermal print head that performs printing by contacting a heat-sensitive color-developing layer of a heat-sensitive adhesive sheet that includes a printable surface made from the heat-sensitive color-developing layer on ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7097173 | Position detector A sheet depositing device for a sheet processing apparatus, includes a feeding section for sequentially feeding sheets or sets of sheets from the sheet processing apparatus, at least one sheet stacking element movable along a guide, for facilitating depositing the s... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7093917 | Image forming apparatus and correction method of transfer condition thereof An image forming apparatus which corrects a transfer amount of a recording material without a scanner is provided. A paper is transferred to a position in which the transfer amount is adjusted by an LF roller, and a test pattern image in which a first pattern image ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7084893 | Roll paper feeding device and photo printer A pressing lever is attached, rotatable about one end, on a holder. The center of rotation is positioned on a side opposite to a paper feed roller with respect to the center line of a vertical slit of the holder. Further, the pressing lever is provided with a pressi... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7079168 | Ribbon drive and tensioning system for a print and apply engine or a printer An apparatus for driving and tensioning a ribbon includes a supply spindle for supplying a ribbon, a supply dancer assembly for applying tension to the ribbon, a printhead, a take-up dancer assembly for applying tension to the ribbon, and a take-up spindle for colle... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7064774 | Thermal transfer label printer with rewind control, and method for multiple label printing This label has a printing head (1) which may be stationary or mob vale along a guide (2), a ribbon (3) bearing a printing medium, a ribbon pay-out spool (4), a ribbon tale-up spool (5) driven by a stepper motor (6), a contro... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7063470 | Printer media supply spool adapted to allow the printer to sense type of media, and method of assembling same A printer media supply spool adapted to allow the printer to sense type of media, and method of assembling same. The supply spool comprises a shaft having a supply of media ribbon wound thereabout. A transceiver unit is disposed proximate the shaft. The transceiver ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7025516 | Multilayer printing material and the use thereof The invention relates to a multilayer printing material (20) for a printing group (10) of a printer, comprising a support layer (21) and at least one printable layer (22), self-adhesive on one face, that rests with its self-adhesive face ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7019769 | Imaging drum with improved material holding An image processing apparatus (10) for writing images to print media (32), which comprises an imaging drum (300) for supporting the print media (32), wherein the imaging drum (300) has a surface, a drive end wall (310), and ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7008125 | Printing device An IC memory module 33 for storing paper-related information is embedded in a core 31 of a roll paper member 30. A control circuit 50 accesses the IC memory module 33 embedded in the core 31 of roll paper member 30 vi... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7002612 | Paper cutter and thermal printer A paper cutter has a guide for guiding continuous paper in a lengthwise direction from an inlet portion thereof to an outlet portion thereof. A cutting device disposed downstream of the guide outlet portion partially cuts the continuous paper after it passes through... | 02/21/2006 |
