Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7025296 | Tape cassette and tape unit A tape unit has a support including a rotation support section rotatably supporting a tape spool and facing a roll part of a print tape, and a junction section extending from the rotation support section. A guide groove for guiding the print tape pulled out from the... | 04/11/2006 |
| 5785437 | Tape cartridge for coating film transfer tool and coating film transfer tool A tape cartridge detachably attached to a refill type coating film transfer tool that allows replacement of coating film transfer tapes, and formed in a compact size and simple structure using fewer components. The tape cartridge has a compact size and si... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5499877 | Transfer ribbon cassette, a case for enclosing the cassette, and a paint film transfer device having the same A transfer ribbon cassette a feed core for winding a transfer ribbon having a transfer film applied to one surface thereof, a takeup core for taking up the transfer ribbon fed from the feed core, a case for containing the feed core and takeup core, and a ... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5308173 | Self-propelled composite printing device for printing either on a tape or on a flat surface A composite printing device comprises a portable printer and a tape printer case removably engageable with the portable printer from below. The portable printer includes a bottom printing head, a pair of drive wheels and a pair of idle wheels. The tape pr... | 05/03/1994 |
| 5160943 | Printing systems The invention provides a number of improvements useful in printers which may be of the fixed, portable or hand-held types. In one aspect, the printer, which comprises a housing, a printing unit, means for feeding to said printing unit a substrate onto whi... | 11/03/1992 |
| 5111216 | Tape supply cartridge for portable thermal printer A tape supply including a replaceable tape supply cartridge for a portable, hand held thermal printing or transfer device having a receiving pocket, a supply of tape, a tape pathway aligned with the printhead and the mechanism for sensing relative movemen... | 05/05/1992 |
| 5093675 | Hand-held recording apparatus A hand-held recording apparatus for image recording on a recording medium by manual movement comprises a main body, a thermal head provided in the main body and having plural heat-generating elements for image recording on the recording medium, an ink she... | 03/03/1992 |
| 5063451 | Hand held recording apparatus with window on lower body portion for viewing recording position A recording apparatus for effecting recording on a recording medium is portable and capable of bearing against the recording medium. The recording apparatus comprises recording means for effecting recording on the recording medium, and control means for c... | 11/05/1991 |
| 5052832 | Print head and roller biasing mechanism for a hand held thermal printer A hand held printer for printing on a print paper when the printer is manually moved over the surface of the paper is provided, including a print mechanism supported within the housing to print inputted characters and drawings on the print paper upon manu... | 10/01/1991 |
| 5020928 | Ribbon guiding mechanism A hand held printer for printing on a print paper when the printer is manually moved over the surface of the paper is provided. A single manually manipulatable housing supports an input for imputting characters and drawings to be printed and a display for... | 06/04/1991 |
| 5002410 | Printing apparatus In a manually sweeping type printing apparatus having a lighter weight than a force in printing, the printing operation is effected without applying any external depression load. The printing apparatus includes a thermal head a piezoelectric actuator whic... | 03/26/1991 |
| 4947262 | Hand-held manually sweeping printing apparatus A hand-held manually sweeping printing apparatus includes a manually manipulatable housing. A data input section, a memory, a printer head, a roll of ink ribbon, and an encoder are mounted within the housing. When a user holds the microcopier and sweeps i... | 08/07/1990 |
| 4901164 | Hand scanner type image input/output device with reciprocably supported roller and thermal head A hand scanning type image input and output device includes a main body adapted to be moved by hand to scan an object, such as a manuscript, and having an enclosed readout head adapted to read out the information on a desired portion of the object via an ... | 02/13/1990 |
| 4899228 | Manually sweeping apparatus with image sensor A small-sized copying apparatus has a housing (1). As the housing (1) is moved, an image data-reading circuit (15, 56, 57, 58) receives the light reflected from an original illuminated by a light source (11), and the image data obtained from the light is ... | 02/06/1990 |
| 4839742 | Reflected-character printing apparatus A printing apparatus comprising a keyboard which inputs characters, symbols, etc., to the apparatus and a display which displays the input characters, symbols, etc. A CPU supplies to a printing head dot pattern information in accordance with the informati... | 06/13/1989 |
| 4750049 | Hand-held copying apparatus A hand-held copying apparatus has a reading window of a read division disposed on a leading end outwardly of two parallel rollers which define a reference plane placed on the surface to be read. A storage division for storing information read by the read ... | 06/07/1988 |
