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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189023 | Thermal transfer printing Apparatus for thermal transfer printing of an image from a thermal retransfer sheet onto an article, includes heating means adapted to supply a flow of heated gas for causing dye transfer, and oscillating vane means for directing the heated gas in a direction transv... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189024 | Neutralization apparatus and printer having neutralization apparatus The invention provides a neutralization apparatus which simplifies an apparatus composition, lowers an apparatus cost and removes electrical charge effectively from a ribbon-like substance which is charged by stripping, and provides a printer having the neutralizati... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8139095 | Recording apparatus and conveyance method In a recording apparatus, an ink ribbon is always placed under a tension by a stop torque of a torque limiter while a take-up bobbin is driven through the torque limiter when recording paper is conveyed near a stationary ink ribbon. ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8085286 | Printing method and apparatus A method of printing an image onto a substrate including the steps of providing a substrate, a print head, and a carrier between the print head and the substrate; providing a backing roller; urging the print head towards the roller so as to urge the print head again... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081201 | Thermal transfer printer A thermal transfer printer according to the invention includes at least one printing unit for thermal transfer printing with a print head via a ribbon having a dye layer; a first bending member for bending the ribbon after thermal transfer, the first bending member ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 7956881 | Printing apparatus and printing method A printing apparatus includes a takeup reel driving motor which, after printing, takes up an ink ribbon to eliminate a slack in the ink ribbon. The printing apparatus includes a control device for comparing a distance (a) over which the ink ribbon R is taken up to e... | 06/07/2011 |
| RE42088 | Printer A printer includes a supply shaft wound with unused film including contrast agent, a winding shaft wound with used film including used contrast agent, rotation-speed detector for detecting a rotation speed of the supply shaft, and remaining-amount detector for deter... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7864206 | Thermal transfer laminate film, thermal transfer sheet, and image-forming apparatus A thermal transfer laminate film includes a base film, a non-transferable release layer made of a rubber-elastic resin and disposed on one side of the base film, and an image-protecting layer disposed on the non-transferable release layer. ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7439995 | Method and apparatus for laser induced thermal transfer printing An apparatus and method for providing substantially intimate rolling contact between a portion of a donor sheet and a portion of an acceptor element in a laser-induced thermal transfer printer comprises a rotatably mounted cylindrical drum, an acceptor element affix... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7423663 | Printer apparatus An object of the invention is to provide a printer apparatus which can perform printing to the whole surface of a recording sheet with no margin while print quality is not lost. A configuration of the invention is a printer apparatus which has a printing unit compri... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7417656 | Compact printer A compact printer that includes a sensor system for monitoring the position and/or status of media is provided. The system includes a photo source extending along a line across all or a portion of the width of a media path. The photo source can comprise a number of ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7400337 | System and method for efficient donor material use In a first aspect of the invention, a method is provided for operating a thermal printer adapted to print images by transferring donor material from patches of donor material from a donor ribbon onto a receiver medium, said printer being operable to print images in ... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7349002 | Thermal transfer film and thermal transfer printing apparatus A card printing apparatus includes an information recording unit for printing an image to a card medium having at least a rewrite printing region capable of repeatedly coloring and deleting of color through application of heat. The information recording unit has a s... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7328897 | Card printer and method of printing on cards A compact system adapted for card imaging, card laminating, or other card processing, comprises a card processor positioned on a horizontal card feed path and configured to process one or both faces of a rectangular card such as a plastic credit or debit card. A car... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7329060 | Printing medium and printing method for photo printer A printing medium and a printing method thereof, for a photo printer using the printing medium, wherein the printing medium includes a printing region, and a first tab region and a second tab region extending from both tabs of the printing region in a lengthwise dir... | 02/12/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7286152 | System and method for efficient donor material use A method for operating more than one thermal printer adapted to print images by transferring donor material from patches of donor material from a donor ribbon onto a receiver medium, each printer being operable to print images in a manner that exhausts a full donor ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7273323 | Printing apparatus and methods A printing apparatus (10) has at a printing station (11), a print head (12) with an array (13) of heating elements individually selectable by a computer controller (15), a feed path (16) for feeding carrier ribbon (18... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7257346 | Fusing roller regenerating apparatus in image forming apparatus and method thereof A fusing roller regenerating apparatus of a fusing device in an image forming apparatus includes a coating unit coating a fusing roller using a dip coating method to form a regenerated coating layer to a predetermined thickness, and a heating unit including a heatin... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7250959 | Printer with multi-pass media transport A thermal printer and method for operating a thermal printer are provided. The thermal printer has a receiver medium path leading past a print nip between a print head and platen. A processor causes an urge roller to move the receiver medium in the forward direction... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7226226 | Printing apparatus A printing apparatus (10) includes a carrier ribbon supply tool (12) and a carrier ribbon take-up spool (16), a print head (22) having a plurality of heating elements which are individually addressable and energizable selectively to remov... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7201948 | Optical device and method for manufacturing same A method for manufacturing a structured optical device (1) starts with a substrate (2), on which is coated an alignment layer (3) and a liquid crystal polymer network layer (4). One of these layers can be created as a coating using a conv... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7173642 | Thermal activation apparatus for a heat-sensitive adhesive sheet A thermal activation apparatus has a casing which houses a drawing roller that draws a heat-sensitive adhesive sheet through an insertion port and transports the sheet through the casing. A cutter unit cuts the sheet to a predetermined length, a thermal activation u... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7141281 | Protective layer transfer sheet and thermally transferred image recorded object There are provided a protective layer transfer sheet that is excellent in transferability of a thermally transferable protective layer from a substrate sheet and can yield a protective layer having excellent durability such as abrasion resistance and scratch resista... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7128291 | Spool having an extractor bar A spool suitable for winding material thereon includes an axially extending body having a proximal end and a distal end joined by an outer surface. An extractor bar is mounted for slidable movement relative to the body for urging material wound onto the body toward ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7113197 | Method of thermal printing A method of thermal printing resulting in reduced or no wrinkling of the thermal printing ribbon during printing is described, wherein the ribbon includes inorganic particles in a polymeric host material in at least one layer of the ribbon. The ribbon has improved m... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7108183 | Verification system for the purchase of a retail item and method of using same The present invention provides a system and method for the verification of the purchase of a retail item wherein an encoding device provides a machine-readable post-purchase indicia on the label for a retail item at the point of sale of the retail item. When a custo... | 09/19/2006 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7088379 | Image forming apparatus and ink ribbon set When some trouble occurs to a facsimile apparatus 1 that reads component-identification information of an ink ribbon cartridge 60 and it is impossible to read the component-identification information even if the ink ribbon cartridge 60 is a stan... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7076112 | Image processing method A method for processing an image is provided. A first image and a second image are provided, and donor pixels in the first image are located which correspond to active pixels on the second image. One of the channels of the first image is selected and a donor pixel i... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7071961 | Ribbon drive and tensioning system for a print and apply engine for 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... | 07/04/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7032988 | Certified proofing A certified proofing method is disclosed that includes receiving a printable sheet and automatically detecting at least one feature of at least one component of a proofing process bearing on its quality. The method also includes automatically evaluating at least one... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7011727 | Thermal transfer film and image forming method A thermal transfer film comprises a coloring layer formed on a substrate film via an intermediate layer, wherein the intermediate layer contains a thermally fusible substance and a non-transferable binder resin, the melt viscosity of the thermally fusible substance ... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6997627 | Label printer read after print correlation apparatus A printer and a process for correlating printed subject matter with subject matter that is meant to be printed by a printer with a printing mechanism or print engine such as a thermal printer including a print head, a platen, a media upon which labels are printed an... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6994265 | ATM receipt A medium for printing, such as a thermal receipt roll for an ATM. The medium has two sides, each side having a plurality of marks positioned to trigger an automatic operation, such as printing, movement, or cutting of the medium when identified by a detector. Prefer... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6977669 | Preventing crease formation in donor web in dye transfer printer that can cause line artifact on print A thermal printer is adapted to prevent crease formation in successive dye transfer areas of a dye donor web that can cause line artifacts to be printed on a dye receiver during dye transfer from each dye transfer area to the dye receiver in a dye transfer printer. | 12/20/2005 |
| 6965391 | Thermal transfer ribbon actuation device for printing machines Applicable to machines having a moving carriage (4) that can move transversally with respect to the continuous band to be printed and that includes a thermal printing head (9) by which passes a thermal ribbon, from a cassette of origin (5) to a ... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6947066 | Thermal activating device of thermal activation sheet and printer using the thermal activating device A thermal activating device has an activation heating apparatus for heating and activating a heat sensitive adhesive on a thermal activator layer of a thermal activation sheet. A pressing device presses the thermal activation sheet into pressure contact with the act... | 09/20/2005 |
