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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8157459 | Recording apparatus and method for controlling the rotation of rotating section in recording apparatus A recording apparatus performs recording on a strip of a recording target medium that is fed from a roll object that is set in or on the recording apparatus. The roll object is formed as, or at least includes, a roll of the recording target medium. The recording app... | 04/17/2012 |
| 7878723 | Printing apparatus and method of controlling transport of print media for continuous printing A printing apparatus, including a first roller and a second roller, adapted to transport a plurality of print media on a tray in a transport direction, the second roller disposed at a downstream side, the first roller disposed at an upstream side, includes: a first ... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7559711 | Method for controlling media feed in an imaging apparatus A method for controlling the media feed of a print media sheet in an imaging apparatus having a media feed roller includes selecting between using absolute positioning of the media feed roller and relative positioning of the media feed roller for various media feed ... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7431521 | Printing method, printing apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium for shortening stoppage period of both motors A printing method includes the steps of: preparing a printing apparatus that is provided with a movement motor for moving an ink ejecting section that ejects ink onto a medium, and a carry motor for carrying the medium; repeating driving and stopping of both motors,... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7431522 | Method for reducing banding in an imaging apparatus A method for reducing banding during printing with an imaging apparatus includes establishing a current original move length; determining a current original absolute position; calculating a current adjusted absolute position based on the current original absolute po... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7425059 | Ink container, inkjet printing head, and inkjet printing apparatus The present invention solves problems attributable to color mixing occurring at a region where an ink container containing three or more different inks and an inkjet printing head are connected as a result of repetition of connection and disconnection of the compone... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7401880 | Combination of A/D inputs with quadrature detection to give higher resolution positioning A system and method of determining paper system position and velocity are provided. The method includes receiving a first data triplet at a first time. The first data triplet includes data related to a first coarse digital position, a first channel X analog voltage ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7367731 | Feeding accuracy adjustment apparatus, recording apparatus, liquid ejecting apparatus, feeding accuracy adjustment method for recording medium The printer 1 includes a controller 32 for feeding at least a sort of recording medium P to a feed mechanism, obtaining a tendency of degradation of feed accuracy with respect to at least one sort of the recording medium, calculating an adjustment valu... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7364153 | Sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus A sheet feeding device includes a cassette configured to accommodate recording media, and a recording media feeding member configured to feed out the recording media accommodated in the cassette. The cassette includes a tray main body part including a stacking plate... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7360958 | Sheet processing apparatus There are provided a sheet inlet, a saddle-stitch compilation tray for aligning and accommodating plural sheets that are input through the sheet inlet, and a rotary cutter unit for cutting a saddle-stitched sheaf of sheets accommodated in the saddle-stitch compilati... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7357470 | Apparatus and method for controlling printing time The invention provides a printing control system for controlling a print-head. The printing control system includes a motor controller, a time-delaying generator coupled to the motor controller, and a timer coupled to the delay time generator. The motor controller i... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7354034 | Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus equipped with same A sheet processing apparatus is provided with a processing tray on which sheets are to be stacked and subjected to a processing, a stack tray provided in the downstream of the processing tray with respect to the sheet conveying direction on which sheets are to be st... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7354211 | Perforation forming mechanism for use in an imaging apparatus An apparatus for perforating a sheet of print media having a front side and a back side includes a printhead carriage for carrying a printhead. A perforator carriage carries a perforation forming mechanism. An isolation damper having elastic, vibration absorbing, ch... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7347782 | Paper motion detector in a gaming machine A paper jam detector for a gaming machine. A paper jam detector is integrated with a gaming machine printer that produces cash-out paper vouchers, print-on-demand player tracking cards, or tickets. A paper jam detector may be entirely self-contained and include all ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349127 | Reading/recording apparatus, reading/recording control method, program for implementing the reading/recording control method, reading apparatus, reading control method, and program for implementing the reading control method There is provided a reading/recording apparatus which is miniaturized, by having a reading device and a recording device share a moving space on a shared conveying path used as both a conveying path for an original and a conveying path for a recording sheet, and whi... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7337936 | Continuous paper transporting mechanism and printing apparatus having the same A printing apparatus having a mechanism for transporting continuous paper includes: a frictionally transporting section for frictionally transporting the continuous paper; a paper braking section provided on an upstream side of the frictionally transporting section;... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339708 | Image forming apparatus in which at least one application function can be added to copying function An image forming apparatus for performing at least a copying function includes an engine board, an image reading unit, an image forming unit, a controller board detachably connected to the engine board to add at least one application function to the copying function... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7333225 | Printing system, printing apparatus, user created print information data providing method and user created print information data providing program A printing system includes a plurality of terminal devices and a printing apparatus. The terminal devices and the printing apparatus are connected with each other via a network line. When an input panel is operated to start print job description processing, it is de... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7303187 | Image formation apparatus and paper feed control method therefor An image formation apparatus which has multiple paper feed units and performs plural types of processing including at least facsimile processing, comprising a paper feeding subject setting unit which sets availability of paper feeding of each of the paper feed units... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7295336 | Document-management printing system having a displaying unit, and its control method A document-management apparatus includes a displaying unit which displays both document information managed by a document-management server and image-forming-job information managed by an image-forming-job management server on an operation screen. A first unit perfo... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7284753 | Printing device with manual paper feeding function A printing device with a manual paper feeding function includes a manual paper feeding unit, a first paper size input unit that inputs a paper size by an operation and a second paper size input unit that detects a paper size of fed paper and inputs the detected pape... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7284922 | Label printer A label printer has an on-board peeling mechanism that easily replaces label paper and removing paper jams with limited space for opening and closing the printer. The label printer has a printing mechanism for printing labels while conveying label paper having a plu... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7281870 | Ink jet recording apparatus An ink jet recording apparatus includes a carriage for reciprocal movement while carrying a recording head for effecting recording by ejecting ink; a platen for supporting recording material at a position opposed to the recording head; a changing member for changing... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7281708 | Sheet handling apparatus and image forming apparatus When the rear end of a sheet bundle S is brought to reach the clamping portion between a rocking roller and a rear end aligning wall by conveyance means, the individual timings, at which the rocking roller and the rear end aligning wall move to the escape position, ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7277194 | Output control apparatus, output control system, output control method, computer-readable recording medium, and computer program for communicating with a plurality of printing apparatuses An output destination of a job can be arbitrarily selectively used in accordance with an application of the user. If a state of each of printers to which the print job should be outputted is abnormal, if the states of the printers are unknown, or if there is a troub... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7277192 | Printing apparatus, printing method, image processing apparatus, image processing method, storage medium, and program In conventional technique, a layout result is displayed on only one page, and a print result cannot be roughly observed by reduced display of all pages. For this reason, a specific image printed on a specific page cannot be overlooked, and a user must print the imag... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7270493 | Printer A printer capable of printing with high quality by driving the drive motor according to information about a drive current to be applied to a drive motor of a platen roller to feed the printing medium, each of which has the information. Accordingly, the printer compr... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7267499 | System, apparatus and method for printing oversized print media Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, apparatus, and method for printing oversized print media which allow for the printing of a preassembled substrate or a single piece substrate without compromising the integrity of the print quality. Preferred em... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7265868 | Controlled print size for image data The present invention enables to ensure printing the entire desired image. An image data interpreter 21 interprets the header portion of data transmitted by a digital camera to detect the number of dots indicative of height and width of an image to be printed... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7264237 | Sheet stacking-aligning apparatus, sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus The sheet stacking-aligning apparatus or the sheet processing apparatus includes a substantially horizontal stacking tray, a rear end aligning unit for aligning a rear end of a sheet bundle on the stacking tray, and a control unit for controlling an operation of the... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7258500 | Media processing apparatus and scanner unit The media processing apparatus has a first transportation path for guiding the check, a second transportation path and a third transportation path that diverge from the first transportation path, a front scanner that is rendered along the first transportation path f... | 08/21/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7256902 | Network printing system that operates based on the environment The object is to provide a network printing system in which printing may be executed using stable print modes regardless of the printer operating environment. When the printer receives a print job, if (i) any of the printing parameters in the print mode associated t... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7252285 | Method and apparatus for aligning a media sheet An alignment device for aligning a manually loaded media sheet to a printer feed path has at least one registration feature disposed to register the trailing edge of the media sheet to the feed path. By aligning the trailing edge, an orthogonal media sheet is loaded... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7249759 | Sheet feeding apparatus A sheet feeding apparatus including a stacking portion for stacking a plurality of sheets thereon, a sheet feeding portion for feeding the sheets stacked on the stacking portion, a fan for sending air to the sheets to loosen the sheets stacked on the stacking portio... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7245845 | Printing apparatus, information processing apparatus, and printing system An apparatus for executing a printing process on the basis of a print job from an external apparatus, comprises a post-processing unit which can apply post-processing for printed paper sheets using paper sheets prepared independently of the printed paper sheets; a d... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7242463 | Method and device for detecting patterns on a substrate Device for detecting patterns on a travelling substrate, namely on a substrate being deposited on a sheet or on web matter, wherein the substrate is a metallized foil travelling in a travelling direction. The device comprises a housing for a first incidental beam is... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7232122 | Jam detection method and system for an inserter A document assembly system with jam detection capability. The system including an accumulation chassis having a series of pusher fingers for pushing collations of documents. Above the chassis, document feeders release documents to the chassis to form the collations.... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7213915 | Ink jet printer and image recording method An ink jet printer includes: an image forming section for forming an image by ejecting a pigment ink toward a recording medium in which a surficial layer includes thermoplastic fine particles, in a case; a fixing member for fixing the image by heating and pressurizi... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7215432 | Printer sharing control method and a system for implementing this method A computer (2) connected to a printer (1) stores a printer sharing control program (50) for creating print spool files and sending the print spool files to the printer in response to print requests received from a plurality of printer use progra... | 05/08/2007 |
