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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7517163 | Pressure pad engagement mechanism using sliding actuator A slide track of a notched slider control can include a continuous path extending between two end points. A slider can be a graphical element able to move along the slide track. The end points can correspond to upper and lower extremes of a value range. Positions be... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7357333 | Mechanism for storing authenticity information about a written or printed document A mechanism for storing authenticity information about a written or printed document. This authenticity information may be stored in a publicly-accessible database. When a document patterned with electronic ink is to be verified, the verifier examines the electronic... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7354214 | Image forming apparatus having a chassis containing a curved part that supports a roller bearing The image forming apparatus includes a chassis, a feed roller, and a press roller. The chassis includes first and side surfaces, a bottom surface that connects the first and second side surfaces, and a curved part formed unitarily with the bottom surface. The curved... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7198265 | Imaging apparatus including a movable media sensor An imaging apparatus includes a printing mechanism having a media path. A print media source is provided for supplying a sheet of print media to the printing mechanism. A drive unit is provided, with a drive shaft coupled to the drive unit. A media sensor device is ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7019872 | Compact scanner and scanning method A scanner comprises a transparent platen mounted on a housing, and an object-imaging device within the housing mounted for longitudinal movement relative to the platen and an object supported thereby. The object-imaging device is rotatable about a transverse axis an... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6942405 | Printer system including guide plate for guiding print ribbon during printing and guiding document during scanning A printer system is disclosed. The printer system includes a frame, at least one feed roll shaft coupled to the frame for feeding a document through the printer system, and a reference plate rotatably attached to the at least one feed roll shaft. The reference plate... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6932457 | Apparatus provided with carriage An apparatus provided with a carriage is guided and supported by at least two guide members, a guide shaft and a guide rail, arranged to be parallel to each other to enable the carriage to reciprocate. The guide members are arranged apart from each other substantial... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6773176 | Printer, printing system, control method for these printer and printing system, and storage medium To accurately setting a print charge on the basis of a color which is used actually at a stage to print data consisting of a mixture of color data and monochromatic data. It is possible to judge a color designated for printing by detecting color information from dra... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6533477 | Thermal line printer and printing method therefor There is disclosed a thermosensitive line printer, wherein a heating element array of a thermal head is pressed on a thermosensitive recording paper at a distance L2 from a nipping position by a pair of conveyer rollers, and is driven to record an image f... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6466384 | Apparatus and method for reading magnetic images with an adjustable force pressure pad A device for reading magnetically encoded data on a document, such as a strip of characters printed in magnetic ink along the lower edge of a check, executes a subroutine to determine whether each character, as it is read, is legitimate. This error detect... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6293715 | Self contained point of sale printing system and method The present invention features a Point of Sale (POS) printer that includes an encoding module that magnetizes and reads the account and bank information from existing magnetic characters on a check. The encoding module prints the characters in the AMOUNT ... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6290129 | Apparatus and method for printing on media and detecting information magnetically recorded on the media An information detection apparatus and information detection method for processing recording media to ascertain validity of checks and other negotiable instruments and print as necessary on the recording media. The information detection apparatus for proc... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6234693 | Device for offsetting a postage imprint A device for offsetting a postage imprint in a mail-handling machine, the device comprising detection means for detecting an edge of a mail item, print means for printing a postage imprint on the mail item, and monitoring and control means connected first... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6171002 | Magnetic reader and printer having the same A magnetic character reader capable of reading information recorded on a record sheet with an optional printer, the size of the magnetic character reader being reduced by use of a shortened record sheet transport passage. The magnetic character reader 50 ... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6155483 | Selective release MICR mechanism A point of sale (POS) receipt printer that includes a selective release mechanism that converts the printer into a check account verifying machine. The conversion mechanism magnetizes and selectively reads the account and bank information from existing ma... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6068187 | Information detection apparatus and information detection method for recording media Provide a composite processing device and its control method capable of reliably bringing the recording medium in contact with the information detector using a simple configuration and separately configuring the insertion member and exit member for the re... | 05/30/2000 |
| 5988898 | Label printer having integrated optical scanner module A label printing device comprises a housing having a printer and a scanner disposed therein. The housing further includes a window permitting light to transmit therethrough to an optical sensing element of the scanner. The optical sensing element generate... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5965862 | Information detection apparatus and method for printing on a medium and for reading information recorded on the medium An information detection apparatus and information detection method for processing recording media to ascertain validity of checks and other negotiable instruments and print as necessary on the recording media. The information detection apparatus for proc... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5925866 | Method, apparatus and article of manufacture for dynamically positioning magnetic shielding to reduce magnetic interference at a magnetic read head An apparatus and system for reducing noise detected by a magnetic read head. In particular it relates to reducing magnetic interference at a magnetic read head by dynamically positioning a piece of highly permeable nickel-copper alloy near the magnetic re... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5906443 | Labeler There is disclosed a hand-held labeler for printing and applying labels and for printing tags. The labeler has a keyboard, a display, a scanner, and a battery-containing handle. The labeler is user-friendly and compact. The labeler can be easily loaded wi... | 05/25/1999 |
| 5893667 | Point of sale printer with magnetic reader A point of sale printer includes a magnetic reader for processing transactions and payment by check at a checkout point of a retail establishment. The printer includes a magnetic or MICR reader located at a predetermined point on the printer's document tr... | 04/13/1999 |
| 5789727 | Integrated method and apparatus for reading mier code and printing Printing to aNd MICR code reading from a cut-sheet form imprinted with an MICR code, such as personal checks, are continuously accomplished by a single apparatus, thereby simplifying processing and reducing the required installation space. A magnetic head... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5634729 | Magnetic reader with a flexible pressure film pressure pad A point of sale printer includes a magnetic reader for processing transactions and payment by check at a checkout point of a retail establishment. The printer includes a magnetic or MICR reader located at a predetermined point on the printer's document tr... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5631637 | Output method for dot data and apparatus therefor A data output apparatus is equipped with a wireless data receiving unit, for wireless data reception from an external equipment, and a cable data receiving unit for data reception, through a cable, from the external equipment, and is capable of automatica... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5613783 | Point of sale printer with magnetic reader A point of sale printer includes a magnetic reader for processing transactions and payment by check at a checkout point of a retail establishment. The printer includes a magnetic or MICR reader located at a predetermined point on the printer's document tr... | 03/25/1997 |
| 5567062 | Printing machine having a menu with mode selection The present invention provides a printing apparatus equipped with inexpensive, scaled-down, lightweight recognition and setting functions. The printing apparatus is capable of setting desired modes of printing, adjustment, etc. by referring to a mode sele... | 10/22/1996 |
| 5531530 | Printer and a method of sorting out and cutting papers printed thereby In a printer comprising a printing means for performing printing on a continuous paper in response to a print data and a cutter unit for cutting the continuous paper in the paper width direction upon completion of printing, a printed paper needs to be sor... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5518325 | Disk label printing A method and system for individually labelling a recording medium at the time that digital information is recorded thereon is provided. The method provides for transferring at least a portion of the digital information in the form of a digital data stream... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5423619 | Card printing apparatus When a magnetic head is fed in one direction by a card stage, ID information recorded in a magnetic stripe on a lowermost one of vertically stacked cards in a card stock unit is read by the magnetic head. Then, the lowermost card is carried by the card st... | 06/13/1995 |
| 5297880 | Method for setting an apparatus having a sensor A method for setting an apparatus, such as a printer, wherein a sensor is mounted to sense the position of a settable detection object during operation of the apparatus. The apparatus may be set as a function of the occurrence of an output from the sensor... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5235675 | Printer control system for controlling printers differing from each other in dot density A printer control system receives ruled line data for the entire printing region with respect to the row direction included in ruled line print data, and image data included in image print data in a plurality of blocks from a host system, accumulates the ... | 08/10/1993 |
| 5227617 | Hand-held label applicator with scanned data acquistion and selective data retrieval acquistion A hand-held labeler with an integrally formed optical scanner prints labels with a coded record selected from a plurality of optically scanned and stored coded records. In a data acquisition mode, the optical scanner scans a plurality of coded records, su... | 07/13/1993 |
| 5192141 | Multi-dimensional media printer with media based registration and free edge printing A printer 20 for imprinting data on a variety of multi-dimensional media 62 has media based registration and can accomplish free edge printing for printing data adjacent edges. The printer 20 includes a transport mechanism 52 for accurately transporting a... | 03/09/1993 |
| 5161905 | Apparatus for recording and/or reading information A head (9 or 10) records information on or reads information from a document (29) transportable along a transport path (3). A guide slide (17) guides the document (29) along the transport path (3). The guide slide is displaceable into and above the intera... | 11/10/1992 |
| 5108206 | Document outputting apparatus including means to randomly alter fonts A document output apparatus is disclosed which comprises a register for registering a handwritten character as a font; a digitizer for inputting to the apparatus information on a row of characters to be output; a CPU for changing as needed a predetermined... | 04/28/1992 |
| 5085528 | Data card and serial printer using same A data card for a printer includes a plurality of data areas. Data readable by a sensor can be written in the data areas to control specifications or functions of a serial printer. A standard mark is printed on the data card to provide a reference positio... | 02/04/1992 |
| 5067832 | Expandable module frame for mounting printer and accessory modules A printer for a plurality of different printing objects serving as a multifunctional printer is subject to problems of economic production. A printer system which allows to process all internationally required forms and savings booklets, records, checks, ... | 11/26/1991 |
| 5000591 | Document handling apparatus Document handling apparatus 10 includes a reception platen 32 disposed below and movable with respect to a dot-matrix printer 28 having a printer head 30. A document placed on the platen 32 can therefore be brought into register with the printer head 30 b... | 03/19/1991 |
| 4915027 | Hand-held manually operable printing apparatus A manually operable sweeping-type compact printer apparatus includes a key entry unit, a display unit, a memory unit, an encoder and a printer unit which are mounted on a manually manipulatable housing. When the housing is manually moved over a printing m... | 04/10/1990 |
| 4895466 | Processor for forms with multi-format data A multi-format document printer and processor has a plurality of data writing and reading means for data in different formats, disposed along a transport path. Forms are separated from a continuous perforated form supply and advanced along the transport p... | 01/23/1990 |
