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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8061913 | Machine having a card processing assembly A machine having a card processing assembly. The card processing assembly has a card drive and a heating device. The heating device is operable to cause a human-readable symbol to be viewable on a data card. ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 7399131 | Method and Device for forming an 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... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7334953 | Card printer A card printer includes a housing, a card inlet and a card outlet. A distance between the card inlet and the bottom of the housing is approximately the same as a distance between the card outlet and the bottom of the housing. When serially connecting two similar car... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7299990 | RFID tag, printing paper, printer, and RFID system A radio frequency identification tag to be attached to printing paper includes an upper face that is opposite to a face to be attached to the printing paper, the upper face being made of a paper material substantially equal to the printing paper. ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7213992 | Rewritable card printer A rewritable card printer useful as a rewritable card printer. The rewritable card printer includes a print module coupled to one or more separate card magazines, each having independent card drives. The operation of the print module and one or more card magazines a... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7192208 | Rewritable card printer A rewritable card printer useful as a rewritable card printer. The rewritable card printer includes a print module coupled to one or more separate card magazines, each having independent card drives. The operation of the print module and one or more card magazines a... | 03/20/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7128482 | Multi-media gaming printer A multi-media gaming printer. The multi-media printer may accept various kinds of voucher media, such as thermally writable medias, smart cards, or magnetic strip cards. The multi-media printer includes writing, reading, and erasing devices within the printer to man... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7114655 | EPC data manager An RFID print system includes an RFID printer and reader, a host computer that transmits a data stream containing instructions or commands to the RFID printer for encoding an RFID tag, and a data manager that receives EPC data or other data from the encoded tag. The... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7063013 | Card-flipping device for use in card printers A card-flipping device for a card printing apparatus is provided. The card-flipping device comprises a card-carrier unit for transporting the card in a vertical direction, a motor drive means for moving the unit in the vertical direction, and an actuator assembly in... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7056045 | Rewritable card printer A rewritable card printer useful as a rewritable card printer. The rewritable card printer includes a print module coupled to one or more separate card magazines, each having independent card drives. The operation of the print module and one or more card magazines a... | 06/06/2006 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6971808 | Card printing devices Card printing apparatus, for example, for printing identification cards, pass cards and the like generally comes with a relatively restricted size card input hopper. The number of cards that can be processed in a single operation is accordingly limited. The capacity... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6908241 | Card processing system with combined magnetic encoder and card flipper A system for processing cards including a magnetic medium extending along one side of the cards and printing on both sides of the cards is disclosed. The system is a plurality of card processing stations (14, 30, 24) spaced along a card transport (18â€... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6896431 | Identification card manufacturing device module unification An identification card manufacturing system that includes first and second identification card manufacturing device modules and a unification mounting. The first identification card manufacturing device module includes a first card transport mechanism and an output,... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6880996 | Method and apparatus for printing on smartcards and the like A method for printing on a smart card using the printer of a postage meter is disclosed. The postage meter has a feed mechanism for feeding mail items past a print head and the construction of the feed mechanism is such that the spacing of adjacent feed rollers is g... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6729719 | Identification card printer formed from a sheet feed printer In a method of forming an identification card printer a sheet feed printer is provided having a printhead and a sheet feed mechanism that is driven by a sheet feed drive to feed paper sheets to the printhead for printing. Next, the sheet feed mechanism is replaced w... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6457886 | Card stack lifter and exception feed A printer for printing identification cards, in particular, is provided with a hopper for holding a stack of cards to be printed. A card feeder will feed one card at a time from the hopper. The hopper is mounted so that it can be moved away from the card ... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6398435 | Marking press device for producing raised symbols with or without coloring A marking press device having a pair of type arms that face each other to interpose a workpiece to be marked therebetween, a type fixed on each of said type arms for making a mark thereof, a circular type assembling member around which a plurality of said... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6318914 | Card-reversing device for use in card printers This invention relates to a card-reversing device for use with a card printer to perform printing on both sides of a card. According to the present invention, the card-reversing device includes a transmission unit capable of feeding the card, a rotary mea... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6059471 | Device for conveying a form in a printer A device for transporting a sheet (18) to be printed in a printer is described, with a carriage (14) which is designed for receiving the sheet and which can be displaced on a fixed stand (12) perpendicularly to the line direction between a starting positi... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6044763 | Device and procedure for the marking of stacked sheet stock A device including a receiving device for a stack formed by sheets of stock material that move by gravity along the receiving device toward a marker and which includes positioning elements for positioning a sheet to be marked with respect to the marker, a... | 04/04/2000 |
| 5980136 | Drum platen type printing machine for printing on regular and card-stock substrates A printing machine for printing on regular-stock type substrates and on card-stock type substrates includes a rotatable drum member having an outer surface for contacting regular-stock and card-stock type substrates; a first path for moving and printing o... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5882127 | Card printer and method of printing on cards using the same A card printer includes a card supply mechanism (20) for forwardly feeding cards one after another from a stack thereof held by a card stocker (21), a card carrier table (20) having an upper surface for supporting each of the cards fed from the card suppl... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5806999 | Double-side printing system A double-side printing system has a printer section for printing images on the obverse side of a card, and a turning section for turning over the card sent out from the printer section and sending back the inverted card to the printer section so as to pri... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5709484 | Apparatus for double-sided printing of identification cards An apparatus for double-sided printing of identification cards (1) has a printing unit (2) with a thermal printhead (17), a card transport device, an input sensor (8) and an output sensor (9) as well as a reversing unit (3) for reversing and further trans... | 01/20/1998 |
| 5599120 | Adapter for ink jet printing onto adhesive binding tape A thermal ink jet printer that prints onto thermal adhesive binding tape includes a tape feeding adapter that enables the feeding of tape into and out of the printer. The adapter includes a base support member for supporting a plurality of tapes in a subs... | 02/04/1997 |
| 5516218 | Card printer A card printer is provided which comprises a printhead, a carrier table reciprocatively movable along a movable path in facing relation to the printhead, a drive mechanism for reciprocating the carrier table, a card transfer mechanism for successively fee... | 05/14/1996 |
| 5468079 | Printer for printing on cards A printing apparatus comprises a card transport mechanism for printing on a card-like medium. A slider is provided having a card stop against which one edge of the card stops and a holding mechanism holds the card to the slider. A guide frame is further p... | 11/21/1995 |
| 5326179 | Apparatus for producing an information recording card The card producing apparatus which records magnetic data or printed data on many cards, which washes the cards and records predetermined data on predetermined areas of the cards so that there will not develop erroneous recording, and which rejects cards i... | 07/05/1994 |
| 4678352 | Receiving arrangement for a multiple type carrier for an impact printer In a system including a cassette containing a print wheel arranged to cooperate with holding devices provided in an impact printer having a rotatable setting shaft to which the print wheel can be releasably fastened for rotation therewith, the cassette is... | 07/07/1987 |
| 4627750 | Receiving arrangement for a multiple type carrier for an impact printer In a system including a cassette containing a print wheel arranged to cooperate with holding devices provided in an impact printer having a rotatable setting shaft to which the print wheel can be releasably fastened for rotation therewith, the cassette is... | 12/09/1986 |
| 4448558 | Computer printer paper support Means for supporting papers, forms and the like on the pin type feed mechanism of a computer printer or the like is provided which comprises a pair of flexible strips each having near one edge thereof a plurality of regularly spaced holes for engaging the... | 05/15/1984 |
| 4212552 | Impact printer cardholder with integral ribbon guide and end of ribbon sensor In an impact printer with a conventional combination of platen and cardholder wherein the cardholder has an inner surface with a curvature matching that of the platen and is mounted adjacent to but spaced from the platen so that a sheet of printing medium... | 07/15/1980 |
