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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8075209 | Method of printing images to compensate for pile height differential A method of printing a plurality of images on a length of media comprises feeding the media from an input roll of media to a printing device where images are printed on the media. After images are printed on the media, the media is delivered to an output roll. The m... | 12/13/2011 |
| 7976233 | Winding apparatus A winding apparatus for use in a copier, a printer, and other devices for ejecting a printed sheet in a rolled form of a cylinder without having a core includes a gripping mechanism for gripping the leading end of a sheet when the sheet is rolled into cylindrical fo... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7695204 | Wide format printer having alternative print zone arrangement A wide format printer having an alternative print zone arrangement is provided. The printer comprises a printhead having a corresponding print zone, the print zone being defined by a plane adjacent the printhead, and a feed mechanism for continuously feeding a web o... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7674055 | Label printer with a label peeling mechanism and a control method for the same A label printing apparatus having a label peeling mechanism determines the appropriate time to run a process for setting the paper. Paper having a plurality of labels continuously affixed to a web liner is loaded inside the label printing apparatus when a main cover... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7322761 | Spool adapted for gripping a roll of print media A spool, such as supply for a wide-format printer, is provided. The spool comprises a spindle for slidingly receiving an outer shaft, which is typically the core of a roll of print media. A first resiliently deformable gripping ring is circumferentially mounted abou... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7191978 | Media web cartridge for a printing system A media web cartridge for storing a media web to be introduced into a wallpaper printing system, the wallpaper printing system including a region to receive the media web cartridge and feed the media web past a printhead at least as wide as the width of the media we... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7097372 | Refillable tape cassette The present invention relates to a refillable tape cassette for accomodating a supply of printable tape. In order to avoid the need for different tape cassettes for different tape widths the tape cassette is capable of selectively housing supplies of tapes of differ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 6637959 | Printing device with means for conveying paper Printing device with means for conveying paper A printing device (10) comprises a lower part (12) and an upper part (14) that is mounted on said lower part (12) such that it can pivot about a pivot axis (16). A print head (18) and a holding trough. (62) f... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6511240 | Rolled-paper holding mechanism and a printer including same A miniaturized rolled-paper holding mechanism is capable of detecting the residual quantity of rolled-paper in both horizontally and vertically installed states of a printer. The rolled-paper holding mechanism includes a rolled-paper holder, a holder cove... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6439786 | Synchronized motion printer with continuous paper movement A printer including a single motor which provides rotary motion to a feed drum having an outer surface which frictionally engages and pulls a web material from a roll rotatably mounted on a supply shaft. First and second pendulum systems, each including t... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6412992 | Printer with paper aligning device An aligning device is provided in a paper transport path in a printer, for correcting a recording paper to be parallel to the paper transport path. The aligning device has a pair of guide members (17, 18) that are shifted in a lateral direction to the pap... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6238113 | Media feed apparatus for imaging system A media supply cassette is disclosed for use in an imaging system for processing a web of imageable media. The media supply cassette includes a first roller and a second roller for providing a nip through which the media exits the supply cassette through ... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6186684 | Rewinding unit for linerless label web and method A rewinding apparatus is configured to accommodate linerless labels. The apparatus includes a thermal printer for processing an unprinted roll of labels, a rewinder disposed in the vicinity of the thermal printer for rewinding the printed roll after the u... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6123475 | Method of controlling a document-printing arrangement and corresponding document printing arrangement A document-printing arrangement (8) having one or more paper paths (10, 110), via which one or different continuous paper webs (20, 120) can be fed to a printing station (14) equipped with a thermoprinting strip (32) and a backing roll (34). In order to c... | 09/26/2000 |
| 5788384 | Printer with ink ribbon spool electric motors There is disclosed an improved thermal printer with a rigid frame made from a main frame plate with compound bends and a base plate, record member supply roll mounting and guide devices, an ink ribbon and record member web feed control system, a print hea... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5779379 | Receipt form handling system for automated banking machine A receipt form handling system for an automated banking machine includes a printer (30) which prints indicia on paper extending in a paper path (151). Paper is moved in the paper path by engagement with a drive mechanism (157,159). Paper sheets are delive... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5607245 | Web supply with non-motorized automatic rewind for removing slack in the web A device is disclosed for pulling the web backward through a thermal print station between prints. A web advance mechanism is adapted to move web in opposed forward and reverse directions past the print station. A core upon which a web supply roll is spir... | 03/04/1997 |
| 5490735 | Method of operating a printer A method of operating a printer in which, after positioning of a paper web for printing and the printing of the web, the last printed sheet is removed and the leading edge of the web is retracted in a park position. The retraction of the leading edge of t... | 02/13/1996 |
| 5395174 | Apparatus for printing labels An apparatus for printing labels can have a printing area, a deflector area designed as a shaft or an edge located behind the printing area in the transport direction of the labels, around which deflector the carrier strip can be guided, and where the lab... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5371521 | Packaging machine with thermal imprinter and method A thermal transfer printing apparatus for printing an elongate continuous web of items. The apparatus comprises a frame structure having an imprinter mounted thereon. A plurality of idlers supports the web of items and defines a path of travel for the web... | 12/06/1994 |
| 5351071 | Thermal printer A thermal printer of the type printing an image on a printing paper wound in the form of a roll. Curling of the printing paper wound in the roll form occurs when the thermal printer is placed in its standby mode over more than a predetermined period of ti... | 09/27/1994 |
| 5251988 | In-line printer for packaging process The thermal transfer printer is an on-line printer to print on a web in packaging apparatus adapted to print either when the web is in motion or during a stop cycle. The printer is configured to interface with a computer having a RS 232C serial port to pe... | 10/12/1993 |
| 4823694 | Device for feeding several paper webs to a printer In order to accommodate a relatively large number of paper storage reels (11-17) with diameters of relatively large size in correspondence with a relatively large paper reservoir in a space of relatively small dimensions, storage reels (12-15) are also ar... | 04/25/1989 |
| 4765765 | Label printer The label printer of the present invention comprises a label cassette containing an elongate label sheet and removably loadable in the printer unloadably, a memory for storing print parameters of label formats relative to print contents, and a parameter s... | 08/23/1988 |
| 4700906 | Paper tape control unit An improved control unit is provided in the form of a compact and relatively simple add-on kit for use with calculators, adding machines and the like requiring use of paper tape in roll form. The paper tape control unit supplies the paper tape to the asso... | 10/20/1987 |
| 4494708 | Paper tape rewinding device The device includes a spool and a mounting structure for mounting the spool on a machine which uses paper tape. The mounting structure rotatably mounts the spool in a manner that the spool can rest on the paper tape roll of the machine and includes elemen... | 01/22/1985 |
| 4492345 | Paper roll rewinder There is provided an apparatus for allowing a paper tape to be unwound from a first roll by a printing unit, and for simultaneously rewinding the paper tape on a second roll. Each roll includes a hollow cylindrical core. The apparatus includes a low frict... | 01/08/1985 |
| 4322044 | Paper alignment and loading apparatus A continuous paper web-moving mechanism has a supply roll on which the paper is wound and pulled from the supply roll by a drive roll that engages the paper on its surface by a pressure exerted against the paper at that point. In this preferred embodiment... | 03/30/1982 |
| 4168038 | Tape reroll apparatus An apparatus for attachment to a recording machine of the type in which a printed record is made on a continuous strip of paper, such as a paper tape, traveling over a rotating platen wherein the tape is fed into the machine from a tape roll. The apparatu... | 09/18/1979 |
| 4145146 | Recording medium feeding apparatus for printer A recording medium feeding apparatus for printer is disclosed wherein a web of a recording medium is fed and taken up by a take up reel. A web feeding mechanism and a reel driving mechanism are operated through a coupling means by a spring means in which ... | 03/20/1979 |
| 4120245 | Label printer A label printer is described herein for printing on a tape information indicative of the cost of an item. The tape has a top print-receptive layer and a supporting layer and is disposed to be advanced between a printing head and a platen. The printing hea... | 10/17/1978 |
| 4065068 | Adding machine tape reversing rewinder An accessory for use with adding machines to receive paper tape and the like from an adding machine as printed-out on one side and to reverse the tape, rewinding its unused-side out ready for re-insertion as a fresh roll in the adding machine so that both... | 12/27/1977 |
| 4043440 | Paper feed and web rewind mechanism A paper rewind roll drive for printers of the type in which the paper strip is advanced for both line spacing and to bring the last printed line to the viewing station and is thereafter retracted to position the next print line at the printing station, th... | 08/23/1977 |
