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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7347358 | Depositing items of value A method of depositing items of value, the method comprising 1) receiving a tamper evident and coded container holding the items of value, the code relating to the content of the container; 2) verifying that the pa... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7324125 | Method for automatic adjustment of media settings for a printer A method for automatically adjusting the setting of a thermal printer when a new roll of media is inserted in the printer. A maximum and a minimum energy needed to print are determined. This information is used to determine a coarse energy setting. The printer next ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7216583 | Numbering process and numbering box to carry out the process The numbering box for typographic numbering in sheet or web fed printing machines, said box numbering with p digits k*n items on said sheets or web for allowing a sequential collecting of said items in the finishing and collating process of layers of q sheets or of ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7203666 | Virtual postage metering system A virtual postage metering system and method provides value added services corresponding to postage metering transactions. Funds are not stored at a user's site, reducing the risk of unauthorized modification of accounting balances. There is a database record of eve... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7164575 | Data card unit For a data card unit (1), in which the data cards (68) are transported by motor into the reading/writing position, a two-armed rocker (13), on one arm of which a closing element (57) is arranged, is provided for closing the insertion open... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7119478 | Piezoelectric step-motion actuator A step-motion actuator using piezoelectric material to launch a flight mass which, in turn, actuates a drive pawl to progressively engage and drive a toothed wheel or rod to accomplish stepped motion. Thus, the piezoelectric material converts electrical energy into ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7096784 | Installation for treating sheets of printed paper The invention concerns an installation comprising means controlling printing quality supplied by a printed sheet feeding device (1ā3). Downstream, printing means (12ā16) print serial numbers and/or affix other elements. The quality of the number pr... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7073444 | Method for checking the quality of flat workpieces and device for carrying out said method Method and apparatus for checking the quality of blanks processed with a machine processing blanks of at least a certain type, comprising: carrying out a registering for said possible blank types, feeding a register parameter (n) defining a required number of blanks... | 07/11/2006 |
| 6997627 | Label printer read after print correlation apparatus A printer and a process for correlating printed subject matter with subject matter that is meant to be printed by a printer with a printing mechanism or print engine such as a thermal printer including a print head, a platen, a media upon which labels are printed an... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6935722 | Timer device for a digital printer and method of printing A digital printer has a printhead (10) for printing on a substrate and an encoder (14) which emits pulses (122) to indicate the relative distance moved by the printhead. A timer device for the digital printer emits output print pulses (151 | 08/30/2005 |
| 6922678 | Virtual postage meter with multiple origins of deposit A system and method of evidencing postage payment includes a local postage printing system requesting to a remote data metering center for the generation of postage evidencing information. The request includes a postage amount to be printed on a mailpiece. The remot... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6916131 | Image forming device customizing the image to fit the paper length A tandem-type image forming device is provided which includes a plurality of photosensitive drums, a paper edge detecting section to detect a front edge and a rear edge of a sheet of paper, an exposure starting time calculating unit for each of a plurality of photos... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6905755 | Security document with raised intaglio printed image A security document or other device including a substrate (2), a smooth highly reflective layer (1) applied thereto and having a reflectivity of at least 60 gloss units, and a raised printed image (3) applied to said reflective layer by a printi... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6901855 | Device for separating useful units of a printed sheet Faulty useful units printed on a sheet of useful units are separated from the acceptable useful units. A first cutting device cuts the sheet into a plurality of longitudinal strips, each of which contains several of the useful units. A quality control device detects... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6755297 | Symbol printer A lumber processor includes slowdown conveyor to transition lumber pieces from one processing device to a subsequent processing device where the movement of lumber pieces changes from lineal to lateral motion; a printer station includes a printer boom which includes... | 06/29/2004 |
| 5868069 | Method of generating proofs of print signatures The invention relates to an apparatus for generating proofs of print signatures composed of first and second flats printed on opposite sides of a sheet comprises first and second digital printing units; a feeder mechanism for feeding a substrate having op... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5841954 | Dot printers with width compression capabilities A printer for printing font and/or barcode character bars comprised of a plurality of rows in a direction of printing movement perpendicular to the character bars which are in turn comprised of a plurality of close adjacent dots to improve print quality a... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5819649 | System and method for printing on a moving substrate A system for printing an image onto a target area of a moving substrate with an actuatable print head having an actuation delay time, the substrate movable at a variable speed to a print position relative to the print head. The system includes a trigger s... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5806421 | Method and apparatus for securely printing a machine detectable postal indicia image A method for printing a postal indicia on a mailpiece includes moving a printing mechanism and the mailpiece relative to each other during a plurality of passes; and printing with the printing mechanism at least a corresponding portion of the postal indic... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5704282 | Method of generating proofs of print signatures The invention relates to a method of generating proofs of print signatures composed of first and second flats printed on opposite sides of a sheet. The method of the invention comprises the steps of (a) providing first and second digital printing units; (... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5575574 | Sheet composite adapted to be printed A sheet composite adapted to be printed in printers of the type commonly used with personal or other types of computers including lasers printers, ink jet printers and impact printers. The sheet composite comprises (1) a primary sheet portion having oppos... | 11/19/1996 |
| 5492061 | Thermal printing method A thermal printing method is performed by sublimating an ink film using the heat of a thermal print head with a printing paper being supplied to a rotating drum for transferring. Printing paper is sensed by a sensor for sensing the leading edge thereof, a... | 02/20/1996 |
| 5383399 | Zero hammer adjustment drum printer control technique A method and apparatus for controlling the adjustment of printer hammers which impact against an associated moveable member on which characters are present. Each hammer includes a coil which is energized at the appropriate time, taking into consideration ... | 01/24/1995 |
| 5183343 | Method of printing bar codes by a bar code printer This invention relates to a bar code printing method of printing bar codes consisting of bars and spaces having the width of (n+0.5) P by a bar code printer having a line thermal head with a number of heating elements arrayed at a specified pitch P, in wh... | 02/02/1993 |
| 5056429 | Bar code printing method and the printer A bar code printer according to the present invention is used for the printing of symbol guards to be printed on both sides of a bar code pattern leaving fixed margins, simultaneously with printing of the bar code pattern formed with the combination of wi... | 10/15/1991 |
| 5046413 | Method and apparatus for band printing with automatic home compensation A system and method for automatically compensating for inaccuracies in the positioning of the timing mark sensor of a band line printer. A selected hammer is operated to impact a test character and an adjacent space between characters or a space provided ... | 09/10/1991 |
| 5042375 | Device for temperature control of a print head or of a hammer block including an electromagnetic coil A switching signal, either for the switching off of the print head (20), or for a lowering of the operating frequency, or for a switching-on/switching-off control of a blower motor, is employed in connection with an installation of a temperature surveilla... | 08/27/1991 |
| 4936209 | Electronic postage meter with zip code location designation A postage meter die in a postage meter includes a printwheel assembly for printing ZIP CODE or other location information in place of the CITY-STATE information normally required for Post Office licensed postage meters. The printer assembly is accessible ... | 06/26/1990 |
| 4906316 | Method for printing on a substrate by hot-stamping For the permanent printing of a substrate with fixed and/or variable data, a hot blocking-foil having a heated pigment surface, together with the substrate to be printed, is led through a stamping station in which pigment indicia are serially transferred ... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4897142 | Process and apparatus for the continuous line manufacture of pencils A process for the continuous manufacture of pencils comprises the steps of laying pencils leads between two half small boards which are longitudinally grooved and fixed together by gluing and pressing to form small board sandwiches, of trimming the transv... | 01/30/1990 |
| 4864112 | Bar code label A bar code label comprises a recording medium and a bar code recorded on a recording medium. The bar code includes a plurality of bar elements lined up parallel. Each width of bar elements is different in accordance with the kind of bar elements. The widt... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4856429 | Flexographic printing machine, especially for flexographic blank printing A flexographic printing machine, especially for flexographic web printing, has at least one printing unit. Such a printing unit comprises an endless printing band drawn on round a back-up cylinder and a tension roller, an impression cylinder, an engraved ... | 08/15/1989 |
| 4843959 | Producing piles of serially-indexed papers from a plurality of unindexed imprints Sheets or a web of bank note imprints are advanced in single file through an indexing station where a unique identifying index is applied to each imprint. The indexed imprints are stacked as a pile of strips, downstream of the indexing station, and the pi... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4793251 | Process and apparatus for the processing of security-paper prints and identification of misprints The print carriers which bear security-paper prints arranged in longitudinal and transverse rows and on which misprints are marked are numbered in such a way that all security-paper prints arranged in succession in a longitudinal row, but excluding mispri... | 12/27/1988 |
| 4762063 | Bar code printing method A bar code printing method for generating extended height bar code image target patterns and human readable matter in combination therewith on bar coded items, such as labels, forms, papers and the like which enables the unmodified utilization of currentl... | 08/09/1988 |
| 4706561 | Printing activator test circuit generating back EMF Detecting the inoperability of a plurality of printing element drivers without printing involving sequentially energizing each of the drivers with a shortened time duration pulse sufficient to produce a signal in indicating operability and/or inoperabilit... | 11/17/1987 |
| 4679169 | Printer hammer resetting control system A microprocessor provides to a main instruction source, A FIFO memory, various instructions (paper feed, hammer settings, . . . ) for a printer represented by instruction register thereof. For each instruction of the (A,C) type representing an operation c... | 07/07/1987 |
| 4677910 | Process for processing security paper webs or security paper sheets to form bundles of security papers Processing is based on print carriers in the form of security paper webs or security paper sheets, containing security paper prints which are arranged in the manner of matrices in transverse rows and longitudinal rows and on which spoilt notes are identif... | 07/07/1987 |
| 4622560 | Line-wise interference/band suppression printing system The line-wise printing of an image composed of an assembly of image elements (pixels) by means of a printing head which includes a row of N (Ną£2) printing elements which are arranged along an image line at a mutual distance from each other. The printing... | 11/11/1986 |
| 4597330 | Depository envelope printing mechanism A depository envelope printing apparatus prints transaction identifying characters on envelopes deposited into an ATM, which envelopes may be of uneven contour as a result of their containing coins or folded notes or instruments. The apparatus includes a ... | 07/01/1986 |
