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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7553096 | Detection of donor material use Selectively printing full and fractional sized images with a donor ribbon. A first print order and indicia are printed while the donor ribbon is advanced through the printer. Printing is performed using donor material on a first fraction of the patch set when the pr... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7290146 | Managed credential issuance In a method of issuing a credential, a request for issuance of the credential is received. Next, a unique identification for the requested credential is assigned and data elements corresponding to the credential are provided. A credential production data collection ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7258502 | Tape producing apparatus It is intended to provide a tape producing apparatus capable of printing on an appropriate printing medium with high quality based on data directly read from marks which are continuously printed on a release paper to show a type of a printing medium, with non-contac... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7237485 | Print supply monitoring An identification card printer includes a card input, a card transport, a printhead, and a card output. The card transport is configured to feed a card from the card input along a print path. The printhead is positioned below the print path and is configured to prin... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7223031 | Print ribbon panel color identification A ribbon sensor includes a first and second emitter and a receiver. The first emitter is configured to transmit a yellow light signal and the second emitter is configured to transmit a blue light signal. The receiver is configured to produce an output signal in resp... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7178156 | Disk cartridge having identification element and disk drive apparatus which recognizes the identification element A disk cartridge has a reflection portion to identify a kind of a disk in the disk cartridge. A disk drive apparatus has an optical detector to identify the kind of the disk by irradiating a beam to the reflection portion and detecting the reflected beam. The disk c... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7154519 | Printer and ribbon cartridge A printer includes a substrate input, a substrate transport, a printhead, a removable ribbon cartridge, a ribbon cartridge receiver, and a substrate output. The substrate transport is configured to feed a substrate from the substrate input along a print path. The pr... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7111916 | System and method of fluid level regulating for a media coating system An apparatus for the management of the fluid level in a media coating system. In one embodiment, the apparatus has a supply item for the storage of a media coating fluid and an applicator having a trough for receiving the media coating fluid from the supply item. Th... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7042478 | Modular printer A modular printer having a media take-up assembly, a support block assembly, a printhead assembly, a stepper motor assembly and a display assembly is provided. A support housing having a plurality of recesses formed on an internal wall of the modular printer is also... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7018117 | Identification card printer ribbon cartridge A ribbon cartridge includes a cartridge housing, a supply spool, a take-up spool, and a supply of ribbon. The cartridge housing includes a supply spool enclosure, a take-up spool enclosure, a pair of ribbon guides, and a gap between the ribbon guides and the supply ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6969206 | Tension generating mechanism for a printing apparatus A printing apparatus includes a conveyance mechanism for conveying a web to a transfer unit, and a tension generating mechanism for applying a tension to the web fed to the conveyance mechanism, wherein the tension generating mechanism includes a tension generating ... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6600505 | Thermal printer and ink ribbon used therewith A gradation correction data used in correcting the gradation of the printed image is recorded on the leader film of the ink ribbon in a form of optically readable marks. Then the ink ribbon is set in a thermal printer, the marks are read out by an optical... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6478487 | Line printer variable print ribbon system An impact printer such as a line printer having a base with a hammerbank mounted on the base driven for reciprocal movement. The hammerbank has a plurality of hammers with printing tips formed on frets in two longitudinally oriented rows defining an upper... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6412991 | Identification code for color thermal print ribbon A ribbon for a thermal printer has a series of frames of different colors in a sequence that are correlated to the position of cards to be printed. The ribbon has indexing marks for each frame and also indicators for each repeating sequence of frames. The... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6135658 | Thermal printer donor media with single track code containing multiple data fields and apparatus for detecting and reading the same Thermal printer donor media element (10) with a single track of code including sequential code segments (30). The present donor media element (10) includes sequential color patches (12, 14, 16) which form multiple color groups (18) located along the lengt... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6043833 | Thermal printing ribbon for an office color printer The invention concerns a thermal printing ribbon for an office printer and bearing a sequence of coloring areas (3-7) that serve to print a picture in at least one printing zone onto a printing support sheet of specified format. The formats of the consecu... | 03/28/2000 |
| 5957594 | Thermo-tape unit having a thermo-tape provided with at least one marking stripe configuration In a thermo-tape unit (1) having a supply reel hub (2) and a supply roll (5) of thermo-tape (6) wound on the supply reel hub (2), the thermo-tape has at least one marking stripe configuration (14) at least in its leading area (8), which configuration comp... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5853255 | Thermal printer and ink ribbon used therewith A gradation correction data used in correcting the gradation of the printed image is recorded on the leader film of the ink ribbon in a form of optically readable marks. Then the ink ribbon is set in a thermal printer, the marks are read out by an optical... | 12/29/1998 |
| 5807000 | Thermal transfer printer system and recording unit A recording unit is formed by successively adhering layers of ink donor film of differing colors to each other. A bottom layer is adhered to an image receiving sheet, along a top edge of the recording unit. The image receiving sheet is longer than the ink... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5803627 | Combination ink or dye ribbon and apparatus for nonimpact printing A nonimpact printer accommodates ribbons of selected panel types such as y, m, c and black thermal transfer or dye diffusion, precoat, overcoat, and the like, or combinations thereof, on which ribbon identification data is recorded in terms of the number ... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5743664 | Thermal color printer adapted to detect end of dye donor web by use of light beams and light reflective spindle Thermal printer adapted to detect end of dye donor web by use of light beams. The printer includes a dye donor web supply spindle having a light-reflecting surface thereon. A dye donor web is wound about the spindle, the dye donor web having a predetermin... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5547183 | Imaging device An imaging device which reciprocatively transports a recording sheet to form a color image thereon. A front extreme end of the recording sheet is clamped between a pair of rollers, and the pair of rollers are reciprocatively moved along a recording sheet ... | 08/20/1996 |
| 5501537 | Ink ribbon A printing unit header finding mark PH1 is formed at the head of the color ink areas Y (yellow), M (magenta), C (cyan), and K (black). Color header finding marks YH, MH, CH, and KH which are respectively formed at the head of the color ink areas Y, M, C, ... | 03/26/1996 |
| 5466075 | Color thermal printer A color thermal printer using an ink sheet having a set of three or four colorants coated or printed so as to correspond to a print area with sensor marks arranged at boundaries between the colorants. In the color thermal printer, a plurality of sensors a... | 11/14/1995 |
| 5445463 | Combination ink or dye ribbon for nonimpact printing A nonimpact printer accommodates ribbons of selected panel types such as y, m, c and black thermal transfer or dye diffusion, precoat, overcoat, and the like, or combinations thereof, on which ribbon identification data is recorded in terms of the number ... | 08/29/1995 |
| 5409883 | Process for the manufacture of multi-color donor elements for thermal transfer systems A process for the manufacture of a thermal transfer donor element having at least two areas of thermally transferable colorant, at least one of said areas being a thermal dye transfer composition and at least one of said areas being a thermal mass transfe... | 04/25/1995 |
| 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 |
| 5383732 | Thermal printing postage dispensing device having security features and method of using A thermal printing postage dispensing apparatus that is able to print a postage indicia on a mail piece in a secure manner. A thermal ribbon is provided which has pre-formed images thereon that are of a reduced size in the longitudinal direction. When the... | 01/24/1995 |
| 5351069 | Sublimation type thermal transfer printer and ink sheet used with the same A sublime type thermal transfer printer uses an ink sheet on which a fixing agent of a sublimation ink is coated and thermally transfers the fixing agent of the ink sheet onto a plain printing paper first, then thermally transfers an image on the ink shee... | 09/27/1994 |
| 5325115 | Ink ribbon for color printer An ink ribbon for a color printer is provided which comprises a plurality of full color image strip portions each provided for printing a full color image on one sheet of printing paper during printing operation, each full color image strip portion includ... | 06/28/1994 |
| 5302036 | Multi-color ribbon cassette position adjusting apparatus A multi-color ribbon cassette position adjusting apparatus comprises a carrier having a print head, a cassette mounting member rockably supported on the carrier, and a fine adjustment mechanism attached to the cassette mounting member, for finely rocking ... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5144331 | Drive control method for thermal transfer printer A drive control method for a thermal transfer printer adapted to carry out printing by melting a thermofusible ink of an ink ribbon and transferring the molten ink onto a printing paper. The ink ribbon is formed with a blank portion coated with no ink, wh... | 09/01/1992 |
| 5100249 | Check protector with means for printing amount in bands of different colors The check protector comprises a print head with a plurality of parallel pins in a vertical line perpendicular to the direction of movement of the head. The ribbon in the check protector has at least two bands, one band being associated with half the print... | 03/31/1992 |
| 5080512 | Apparatus and method for printing including slide mechanism A printer apparatus including a slide assembly for advancing a receptor material and a ribbon material relative to a print head and platen for printing color images.... | 01/14/1992 |
| 4984912 | Multicolored fabric printing ribbon including nonbleeding, nonmigrating flushed pigment A fabric ribbon having multicolored regions has coloring matter in the regions of only flushed pigments in a liquid vehicle. Flushed pigments do not migrate between colored regions under normal conditions, and therefore mixing of the colors is avoided wit... | 01/15/1991 |
| 4886386 | Ink ribbon having elastomeric protective backing An overlappingly overstrikeable ink ribbon for matrix or needle printing systems is described having a carrier film and an ink-releasing coating, as well as optionally further conventional intermediate coatings. A rubber-elastic layer is formed on the nee... | 12/12/1989 |
| 4884907 | Mechanism for shifting the track position of a multi-track ink ribbon in a printer A ribbon selecting mechanism for use with a printer comprising a ribbon cassette table on which a ribbon cassette for housing a ribbon is mounted opposite to a platen, said ribbon having plural color tracks formed thereon in the width direction thereof, a... | 12/05/1989 |
| 4875789 | Ink ribbon cassette with slidable ribbon guide An ink ribbon cassette is removably mounted on a printer and coacts with a reciprocable printing head to effect a printing operation. The cassette has a case containing an ink ribbon, and a pair of arms extending in opposed relation from opposite ends of ... | 10/24/1989 |
| 4857941 | Multicolor thermal recording device A recording device for thermal color recording of a medium having two color coupler layers on one side and another color coupler layer on the other side of a transparent support. The layer on the side with two layers and having the higher heat sensitivity... | 08/15/1989 |
| 4820068 | Printer having ribbon shift mechanism An impact printer has a print ribbon that is divided into horizontal colored strips to enable color printing. A printhead is mounted on a moving carriage that moves across the width of a printing medium upon which the printing is to be deposited. The prin... | 04/11/1989 |
