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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7755656 | Systems and methods for adjusting loading of media onto a print surface In one embodiment, a system and method pertains to detecting a position of a sheet of media that has been loaded onto the print surface, determining from the detected position a current loading error with which the media sheet has been loaded onto the print surface,... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7508404 | Thermal printer with two print heads A thermal printers and printing methods are provided. The thermal printer has a first thermal print head adapted to pressure a first donor web against the receiver medium and to selectively transfer donor material to the receiver medium in an image wise fashion to f... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7499068 | Apparatus and method for multichannel sequence transmission and control An apparatus and a method for multichannel sequence transmission and control comprises a DMA generator, a bus interface, a data generator, a control unit, and a strobe signal generator. The DMA generator is coupled to the bus interface and the data generator to oper... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7483046 | Complex image forming apparatus A complex image forming apparatus is provided having an improved structure in which a thermal printing engine forming a color image by heat and a laser printing engine performing single-color printing are integrated. The complex image forming apparatus comprises a s... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7477274 | Thermally sensitive medium and methods and systems for forming an image on a thermally sensitive medium A thermally sensitive medium includes at least one layer of temperature-activated dye, and antenna molecules disposed in the layer of temperature-activated dye for converting radiant energy into thermal energy. A system for forming an image on a thermally sensitive ... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7450140 | Method and apparatus for controlling printing order and image forming device using the method A system and method of controlling the order of printing by receiving a plurality of images to be printed and calculating a density of each of the images, and determining the order of printing of the images using the calculated density. Since images are printed in t... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7417655 | Printer and printing method for recording image during movement of recording paper A printer comprises a feed roller to which driving force is transmitted from a motor via a reducer. While the feed roller moves a recording paper, an image is recorded by a line print head one line by one line. The feed roller is provided with a rotary encoder. A co... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7411600 | Thermal printing device, method for printing an image using said printing device and system for printing an image A printing device that includes a platen for supporting an imaging member during a printing operation and at least one print head subassembly for direct thermal printing on the imaging member. The print head subassembly can be configured to be movable independently ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7365865 | Printing apparatus and control method therefor In a printing apparatus having full-color and monochrome print processes and a method therefor, whether a page to be printed is color or monochrome is checked. The presence of an immediately preceding page which is successively printed before a page to be printed th... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7317554 | Patch forming device When forming a test chart for investigating output characteristic relating to yellow color agent, a printer outputs yellow color agent in a plurality of densities that correspond to various density levels and also outputs cyan color agent in a fixed and maximum dens... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7314322 | Printing system that corrects image data based on environmental history data A printing system according to the present invention includes a media terminal box which may be installed on a street. In the box, there are disposed a measuring device that measures the temperature or humidity in the box, a device such as a CPU, and a storage devic... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7295222 | Image forming apparatus for double-sided printing and method of using the same An image forming apparatus includes a printing module that prints an image on a medium. A transfer unit transfers the medium. A rotating unit rotates the transfer unit such that first and second surfaces of the medium selectively face the printing module when the me... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7286150 | Thermal transfer printing A method of printing a fluorescent image on a surface of a receiver medium comprises forming on the surface by a thermal dye transfer printing process a first image of a first fluorescent dye; and forming on the first image by a thermal dye transfer printing process... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7284479 | Printer operable in duplex print mode A stencil printer operable in a duplex print mode of the present invention prints an image on one side of a sheet and then prints another image on the other side of the same sheet. The printer includes at least one print drum and at least one press roller facing the... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286152 | System and method for efficient donor material use A method for operating more than one thermal printer adapted to print images by transferring donor material from patches of donor material from a donor ribbon onto a receiver medium, each printer being operable to print images in a manner that exhausts a full donor ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7277196 | Iterative printer control and color balancing system and method using a high quantization resolution halftone array to achieve improved image quality with reduced processing overhead A system and method for printer control and color balance calibration. The system and method address the image quality problems of print engine instability, low quality of color balance and contouring from the calibration. The method includes defining combinations o... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7262778 | Automatic color adjustment of a template design The present invention generates a color template design. According to one aspect, a source image is selected. A histogram is generated for the selected source image. Colors are suggested automatically for the generated histogram. At least one of the suggested colors... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7258501 | Ink ribbon cartridge An ink ribbon cartridge including a frame, supply shaft connecting member, and take-up shaft connecting members is provided. The supply shaft connecting members connect a supply shaft to the frame, and the take-up shaft connecting members connect a take-up shaft to ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7242417 | Printer and printing method A printer includes a supply member that separates and supplies a recording sheet from a sheet storage means, and a recording-sheet turning member that can turn the recording sheet. A recording sheet supplied from the sheet storage means by the supply member is turne... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7221480 | Image processing apparatus and image forming apparatus A color conversion section converts R-, G- and B-image signals input by the reading of a color image on an original to C-, M- and Y-color signals. A histogram producing means of an image processing section produces density histograms of the respective color signals ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7190384 | Image forming apparatus and density unevenness preventing method A system controller of a color thermal printer obtains a density profile of an image with respect to a feeding direction of a color thermal recording paper based on density of a test print measured by a CCD line sensor, and then extracts a density unevenness compone... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7126629 | Recyclable, digital one time use camera A digital camera having a limiting-use component to limit use of the digital camera to a single use-cycle. ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7123380 | Method and a device for determining multi-ink color separations A method to convert a color provided in a first color space into a color in a second color space defined by more than four colorants and a reproduction process. The method includes converting the color into a third color space, determining which of a set of gamut vo... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7116343 | Multi-media printer including paper path sensors A printer capable of transferring images to different types of media is disclosed. Media sheets of different sizes and types may be dispensed through a single input path to a print station including a printhead and a platen. The printhead is adapted for transferring... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7104713 | Printer for a heat-sensitive adhesive sheet A printer has a sheet housing unit for storing a heat-sensitive adhesive sheet having a heat-sensitive adhesive layer on one side and a printable surface on the other side. A set of pull-out rollers pulls the heat-sensitive adhesive sheet out of the sheet housing un... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7086713 | Media detack from an intermediate printing member An inkjet printer for printing on a print medium having an obverse side and a reverse side, including a rotating intermediate transfer member for receiving a print image and transferring the print image to the obverse side of the print medium and a rotating drag for... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7086727 | Heat fixing apparatus for sublimating and fixing sublimating ink to recording medium A heat fixing apparatus has a heating unit for heating a recording medium having a substrate, a fixing layer and a surface layer so as to sublimate sublimating ink applied in advance to the surface layer for transferring the sublimated ink to the fixing layer. The h... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7063264 | Covert variable information on identification documents and methods of making same In one embodiment, a method for manufacturing an identification document is provided. A substrate is provided that is constructed and arranged to receive printing thereon. A first variable indicium is printed on the substrate, where the first variable indicium is no... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7059788 | Printer media comprising a bar code A printer and printer media are provided. The printer comprises a media support for receiving a print media. The media support includes a bar code reader. The media comprises a printable media and a bar code disposed on the media. ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7056861 | Flat material especially in the form of a sheet or a strip and device for writing on said material A flat sheet material for manufacturing sheets for receiving information has at least one coating applied onto a substrate. Particles that are electrically activatable particles, magnetizable particles, or electrically activatable and magnetizable particles are embe... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7034857 | Light and thermal energy image-recording apparatus An image-recording apparatus. In a housing of the apparatus are a casing section that encases a light and heat sensitive recording material, an optical recording section that exposes the light and heat sensitive recording material fed from the casing section to reco... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7034968 | Color calibration chart A test page produced by ink pens for calibrating drop weights for at least a first and a second printheads, comprising: a page with an area for color swatches; a plurality of color swatches disposed in the area; and a predetermined substantially uniform color backgr... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7014375 | Thermal printer and method determining battery condition based on temperature A tape print apparatus is capable of setting a weak voltage value, serving as a criterion on indicating a power weakness condition on a display, to an appropriate voltage value based on various kinds of usage conditions by considering that the degree of consumption ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6977669 | Preventing crease formation in donor web in dye transfer printer that can cause line artifact on print A thermal printer is adapted to prevent crease formation in successive dye transfer areas of a dye donor web that can cause line artifacts to be printed on a dye receiver during dye transfer from each dye transfer area to the dye receiver in a dye transfer printer. | 12/20/2005 |
| 6970154 | Fringe-field filter for addressable displays The display kit of the present invention comprises: an addressable display medium configured to exhibit a first aspect under the influence of an addressing vector field in a first direction at an addressing magnitude; and an addressor; where the addressor is configu... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6961075 | Method and apparatus for thermal printing of longer length images by the use of multiple dye color patch triads or quads A method and apparatus of thermally printing an image on a receiver by (a) printing a first sub-image on a first region of the receiver with a first dye-donor patch of the first color and (b) printing a second sub-image on a second region of the receiver with a seco... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6961073 | Method and system for displaying an image on a screen A public presentation system is presented comprising a display system that can be remotely changed, so that multiple different images are successively displayed with minimal interruption. The system utilizes ionography techniques for non-contact printing and imaging... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6938976 | Printer and method therefor adapted to sense data uniquely associated with a consumable loaded into the printer An inkjet printer adapted to sense type of supplied consumable receiver media, inks, printhead, and cleaning fluid. A transponder attached to a consumable is coupled to a memory device capable of storing information characteristic of the consumable. A transceiver is... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6934054 | Method and apparatus for two-color thermal point of sale (POS) printing A 2-color thermal point of sale (POS) printer includes a converter for converting full color printing commands into a commands for printing in two colors, a primary color and an alternate color. A three color image is possible when using the background color of the ... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6927787 | Method of printing data on sheet A system for printing data on sheets, which can solve the problem of the waste of paper resources and also improve the printing speed. The second data is printed as background on an area of printing the first data in a mode that the first and second data can be visu... | 08/09/2005 |
