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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7600934 | Printing and laminating apparatus and method A printing apparatus includes a printer, a laminator device and feeding arrangement for feeding to said laminator device, in an integrated operation, media that is outputted from said printer. The apparatus also includes an arrangement for performing lamination only... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7134962 | Method and apparatus for human readable character scanning verification after printing in a gaming printer A method and apparatus for verification of a voucher after printing by a gaming printer. A human readable validation character string is received by a printer controller for printing on a voucher. A scanned validation character string is read from the voucher using ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7131380 | EB pattern profile printing The present invention provides a printing process and a printed product in which a coating is combined with an additive that lowers the surface tension of the dried coating. The coating pattern is printed on a substrate, and is cured using electron beam (“EB”) p... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7124799 | Lamination apparatus and method of use A lamination apparatus and method of use, and more particularly a lamination apparatus for automatically laminating photographs onto album pages is provided. The lamination apparatus includes a holder slidably mountable on a main body and having an exit region in co... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7104713 | Printer for a heat-sensitive adhesive sheet A printer has a sheet housing unit for storing a heat-sensitive adhesive sheet having a heat-sensitive adhesive layer on one side and a printable surface on the other side. A set of pull-out rollers pulls the heat-sensitive adhesive sheet out of the sheet housing un... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7069858 | Method for custom imprinting plastic identifier tags The invention is of an improved method and process for printing plastic tag blanks for producing plastic identifier tags (such as cattle ear tags). By printing images on tag blanks using conventional ink jet printer technology and thereafter “welding” the image ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7063264 | Covert variable information on identification documents and methods of making same In one embodiment, a method for manufacturing an identification document is provided. A substrate is provided that is constructed and arranged to receive printing thereon. A first variable indicium is printed on the substrate, where the first variable indicium is no... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7059519 | Man/machine interface method and device for a ticket processing device comprising a magnetic stripe The invention concerns a man/machine interface method for a ticket processing device (DIS) comprising a magnetic read/write station (PIL), a thermal printing station (TT) and control means (UC), including the following steps: a) writing on the magnetic stripe of a c... | 06/13/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7031894 | Generating a library of simulated-diffraction signals and hypothetical profiles of periodic gratings A library of simulated-diffraction signals and hypothetical profiles of a periodic grating can be generated by generating diffraction calculations for a plurality of blocks of hypothetical layers. A diffraction calculation for a block of hypothetical layers characte... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7030897 | Photo printer An image fixing portion includes a drum of cylindrical shape provided on a conveyance passage, a magenta fluorescent lamp and a yellow fluorescent lamp installed near the axis of the drum, and a fixing portion guide guiding the roll paper to be conveyed along the in... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7009631 | Method of smoothing surface of printing paper, smoothing apparatus and printer with the smoothing apparatus A method of smoothing the surface of printing paper formed by a thermal head is provided. A printer forms a protection layer on images of the printing paper by the heat of a thermal head that has a plurality of heat generating potions arrayed apart from each other. ... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6986824 | Process and apparatus for forming images An image forming process comprises the steps of conducting recording on a recording medium provided with an image-receiving layer and laminating a thermoplastic film onto the image-receiving layer to smooth the surface of the thermoplastic film by a heating and pres... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6979141 | Identification cards, protective coatings, films, and methods for forming the same The present invention relates to a protective film for application to a card member and forming identification cards having protective films. The method of applying protection to a card member includes providing a protective film. The protective film includes a prot... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6942331 | Printing apparatus and method A printing apparatus comprises a printer, a laminator device and feeding means for feeding to said laminator device, in an integrated operation, media that is outputted from said printer, said laminator device comprising lamination means which cause at least one lam... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6796647 | Method of forming image on card and apparatus therefor There are provided a method of forming an image on a card and an apparatus therefor, which are capable of properly carrying out printing of an image on a card and protection of the printed image in a simplified manner without changing the size of the card. A card is... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6688788 | Dot-matrix printer and printing method A dot-matrix printer for printing on a printing medium comprises a dot-forming section for forming dots on the printing medium; and a referenced data section to be referred to during movement of the dot-forming section, a character string to be printed be... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6640717 | Method of forming image on card and apparatus therefor There are provided a method of forming an image on a card and an apparatus therefor, which are capable of properly carrying out printing of an image on a card and protection of the printed image in a simplified manner without changing the size of the card... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6619869 | Method for generating a matte finish on a photo picture using a thermal printer A method for generating a matte finish on a photo picture using a thermal printer includes using the thermal printhead to heat different areas of an overcoating dye frame of an ink ribbon by at least two distinct time periods to dispose overcoating on the... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6350071 | On demand printer apparatus and method with integrated UV curing The invention pertains to on demand printers such as thermal transfer, ink jet, laser, impact, and the like. More particularly, the invention discloses printers and methods for depositing an ultraviolet curable ink onto a printable item, and curing the in... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6341859 | Format flexible and durable ink jet printing Ink jet printing apparatus is disclosed for forming ink images on a receiver and for treating the ink images formed on the receiver in response to one or more digital image file(s) each including at least one digital image. At least one ink jet print head... | 01/29/2002 |
| 6318254 | Stencil printing machine having static electricity discharging members A stencil printing machine includes a thermal head for perforating a stencil sheet; a platen roller situated adjacent to the thermal head, the platen roller conveying the stencil sheet in a predetermined direction while holding the stencil sheet in contac... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6264383 | Image printing data control method for thermal transfer printers An object of the invention is to provide an image printing data control method for thermal transfer printers capable of achieving efficient transmission of image printing data from an external control section to a printer control section, and thereby maki... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6146032 | Refractive overlaminate panel technique A method for printing an identification card includes printing an image on a surface of the identification card and depositing a first overlayer onto the surface of the identification card. Ridges are created in the first overlayer. A second overlaminate ... | 11/14/2000 |
| 5820274 | Color printer and ink ribbon therefor A compact color printer having a Y head (2), an M head (9), a C head (16), platen rollers (8, 15, 22) and a multi-time ink ribbon (23) wherein yellow ink (23y), magenta ink (23m) and cyan ink (23c) each having effective lengths B are sequentially on a sub... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5791793 | Thermal printhead and protection cover mounted on the same A thermal printhead (10) includes an insulating head substrate (11) having a first edge (11a) and a second edge (11b) opposite to the first edge, a heating resistor (12) formed on the head substrate (11) along the first edge (11a), at least one drive IC (... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5644988 | Printing method of applying a polymer surface material and substrate produced by the method An image is permanently transferred to a substrate having a cotton component, or other component which is absorbent or porous, from a medium printed with the image by a thermal printer using heat activated ink. A polymer surface preparation material and t... | 07/08/1997 |
| 5634731 | Method and apparatus for thermal transfer printing For thermal transfer printing, a coloring material image is thermally migrated from a thermal transfer printing sheet having a coloring material layer thereon onto an image forming area of an image-receiving layer of an intermediate transfer recording med... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5609425 | Thermal sublimation printer for use with different ribbons A thermal sublimation printer is disclosed. A pile of blank paper is inserted into a paper cassette 10, and a donor ribbon 21 coated with sublimation dyes is mounted on a supplying rotational axis 22 and a furl rotational axis 23 on bearings. The heating ... | 03/11/1997 |
| 5553951 | Heated platen and rollers to elevate temperature of receiver in a thermal printer An interactive dye thermal transfer printing apparatus and process uses a dye donor layer and a dye receiver layer, passing the dye donor layer and the opposed receiver layer between a thermal print head and a platen heated to raise the temperature of the... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5512930 | Systems and methods of printing by applying an image enhancing precoat A system and method for printing a predetermined image onto a substrate includes steps or structure for determining a first area on the substrate where a colorant is to be deposited; determining a second area which is immediately adjacent to the first are... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5484215 | Ticket issuing device for a ticket preparing and issuing machine A device for preparing and issuing tickets, especially travel tickets. The preparing means comprise a flywheel cooperating with a belt to feed a cut ticket in front of a magnetic writing head and a magnetic reading head and a printing roller. Outside the ... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5478157 | Printing apparatus A printing apparatus prevents forgery and alteration through lamination formed on a print surface of a medium in a simple structure, and improves the design effect. In the printing apparatus, a print pattern of one frame is stored in a memory component, o... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5427029 | Method and apparatus for providing printed labels for large numbers of objects A printing/applicator station (10) for use in for printing labels and attaching labels to unlabeled objects (11) at a rate of at least 200 objects per minute includes conveyors (12, 13) feeding the objects (11) at a rate of at least 200 objects per minute... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5401111 | System and method for cleaning data bearing cards An apparatus and method are described for removing particulate matter from one or more surfaces of a workpiece, such as a credit card blank, prior to printing a graphic design thereon. The apparatus includes a pair of cleaning rollers which engage both si... | 03/28/1995 |
| 5393148 | Postage dispensing apparatus having a thermal printer and method of using the same A postage dispensing apparatus that prints a postage indicia using a two step process. A thermal ribbon is provided which has pre-formed images on a major portion of the thermal ribbon. A blank area is provided on the thermal ribbon so that an image is ge... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5342132 | Method for transferring hot-melt ink to a recording medium The present invention discloses a method for thermally transferring an ink pattern to a recording medium, comprising the steps of preparing an ink sheet provided with a hot-melt and/or hot-sublimable ink layer and a transparent material sheet provided wit... | 08/30/1994 |
| 5302034 | Printing device for printing image on tape like member A printing device for selectively printing a normal posture character image or reverse posture character image on a tape like image receiving member by using a thermal head. In the normal posture character image printing, a non-lamination type printing ta... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5277501 | Method for transferring hot-melt ink to a recording medium The present invention discloses a method for thermally transferring an ink pattern to a recording medium, comprising the steps of preparing an ink sheet provided with a hot-melt and/or hot-sublimable ink layer and a transparent material sheet provided wit... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5263781 | Thermal transfer printing method and printing apparatus employed therefor A thermal transfer printing method includes the steps of overlapping a surface of a printing layer of an intermediate transfer member having the printing layer on a base member with an ink sheet. Thermal transfer printing from the ink sheet to the printin... | 11/23/1993 |
