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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8054323 | Reveal substrates and methods of using same A reveal substrate includes a sensitive substrate having an opaque polymer sensitive to application of one of heat and pressure which upon one of being heated to a predetermined temperature and subjected to a predetermined pressure causes the opaque polymer to becom... | 11/08/2011 |
| RE42427 | Thermal transfer recording web roll A coreless thermal transfer recording web roll 10 is formed by rolling a thermal transfer recording web 10a in a roll. An inner end part 11 of the thermal transfer recording web 10a of the thermal transfer recording web roll 10 has... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7515164 | Monitoring and adjusting web in a printing press A printing press machine for processing a web roll of labels, the printing press machine comprises a mark sensor at a predetermined location along the printing press machine for sensing the presence of a mark formed on each label on the web roll, the mark being at s... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7414642 | Heat transfer printer A heat transfer printer includes a line thermal head having heat generating elements formed in a straight line at one end of a top surface of a substrate and a sealing member for covering and protecting at least a portion of the top surface of the substrate at the o... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7407250 | Apparatus, system, and method for multi-dimensional registration printing An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for multi-dimensional registration printing. One embodiment of the apparatus includes an image module, a print module, and an object registration module. The image module stores a digital representation of an image. The... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7352383 | Thermal printer A thermal printer includes a thermal head which has heating elements arranged in a main scanning direction, a transport unit for transporting a thermal recording material in a sub scanning direction perpendicular to the main scanning direction and a skewing unit for... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7348067 | Composite paperboards and method of making composite paperboards A laminate composite sheet comprising a two-ply base layer comprised of a bottom ply and a top ply, wherein the bottom ply is comprised of unbleached cellulosic fibers and wherein the top ply is comprised of bleached or brightened cellulosic fibers and a further lay... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7345694 | Document sheet issuing system and recording medium for the system A document sheet issuing system suitable for manufacturing a product based on an ordering by a retailer issues a plurality of documents, e.g., guarantee card, user registration card, on which data including a name of retailer is printed during manufacturing. The iss... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7324127 | Image forming apparatus and method thereof An image forming apparatus for recording an image on a recording medium according to an inputted diagnostic image signal, including: a recording medium loading section capable of loading plural types of recording media; an exposing device for forming latent images b... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321375 | Thermal printer, thermal printing method and thermosensitive recording material In a color thermal printer, a thermal head has an array of heating elements, arranged in a main scan direction, for thermal recording to respectively pixels on thermosensitive recording material. The recording material is moved relative to the thermal head in a sub ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7274384 | Self cleaning thermal media An abrasive cleaning strip is a functional component of a media roll incorporated into the media strip as a header or a trailer. The abrasive cleaning strip is a plastic film coated with 1200 grit aluminum oxide particles. By including the cleaning strip on the medi... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7247198 | Water base for ink-jet recording and ink-jet recording method A water base ink for ink-jet recording to be used for an ink-jet recording apparatus having an ink-jet head comprises a self-dispersing type coloring agent, water, and a water-soluble organic solvent. The surface tension of the ink is 30 to 50 mN/M, the advancing co... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7217276 | Instrument guidance method and system for image guided surgery Generally, the present invention is directed to a method and system for a aligning surgical guide instrument over a burr hole in a patient's body. More particularly, the present invention is directed to a stand-alone instrument guidance unit that is attachable to a ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7213992 | Rewritable card printer A rewritable card printer useful as a rewritable card printer. The rewritable card printer includes a print module coupled to one or more separate card magazines, each having independent card drives. The operation of the print module and one or more card magazines a... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7192208 | Rewritable card printer A rewritable card printer useful as a rewritable card printer. The rewritable card printer includes a print module coupled to one or more separate card magazines, each having independent card drives. The operation of the print module and one or more card magazines a... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7190483 | Image recorder An illumination lens applies a laser beam emitted from a laser light source onto a light valve. The laser beam divided into a number of beams and modulated in the light valve is reflected by a total internal reflection prism so that the optical path thereof is bent,... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7166558 | Thermal imaging system A multicolor imaging system is described wherein at least two, and preferably three, different image-forming layers of a thermal imaging member are addressed at least partially independently by a thermal printhead or printheads from the same surface of the imaging m... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7128482 | Multi-media gaming printer A multi-media gaming printer. The multi-media printer may accept various kinds of voucher media, such as thermally writable medias, smart cards, or magnetic strip cards. The multi-media printer includes writing, reading, and erasing devices within the printer to man... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7123280 | Thermal transfer image receiving sheet and image forming method using the same A thermal transfer image receiving sheet comprising a support having an image receiving layer on one surface of the support and a backing layer on the other surface of the support, wherein, (a) a first electrical resistance of the thermal transfer image receiving sh... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7108183 | Verification system for the purchase of a retail item and method of using same The present invention provides a system and method for the verification of the purchase of a retail item wherein an encoding device provides a machine-readable post-purchase indicia on the label for a retail item at the point of sale of the retail item. When a custo... | 09/19/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7100027 | System and method for reproducing system executions using a replay handler Methods and systems for replaying arbitrary system executions are disclosed. A system includes a storage element, a memory hierarchy and a processor. The memory hierarchy is coupled to the storage element. The processor is coupled to the memory hierarchy. The proces... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7070269 | Recording method and apparatus with an intermediate transfer medium based on transfer-type recording mechanism An apparatus and method for recording an image using a transfer-type recording mechanism are such that a layer of an intermediate transfer element is removably formed on a surface of an intermediate transfer medium. The intermediate transfer element includes an ultr... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7056045 | Rewritable card printer A rewritable card printer useful as a rewritable card printer. The rewritable card printer includes a print module coupled to one or more separate card magazines, each having independent card drives. The operation of the print module and one or more card magazines a... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7042482 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program An image processing apparatus, comprising: an exposing device for exposing an image forming material so as to form a latent image on the image forming material based on image data; a thermal developing device for developing and visualizing the latent image on the ex... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7003248 | Liquid image formation apparatus and liquid developing device An excess toner removal area is made broader over the whole area with respect to a developer applied area that is broader than an image effective area. Thereby a liquid developer, that tends to spread slightly broader than the applied area after being applied to a p... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6995784 | Secure point of sale imageable substrate A secure point of sale imageable substrate is disclosed comprising a heat sensitive recording material for recording confidential information. The heat sensitive recording material comprises a heat transmissive optically opaque paper support, a heat sensitive imagin... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6940534 | Intermediate transfer recording medium and process for producing the same The present invention relates to an intermediate transfer recording medium, that can yield thermally transferred images which are excellent in various fastness properties even under severe service conditions, can transfer a protective layer on an image with good acc... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6906735 | Thermal imaging system A multicolor imaging system is described wherein at least two, and preferably three, different image-fonning layers of a thermal imaging member are addressed at least partially independently by a thermal printhead or printheads from the same surface of the imaging m... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6900823 | Thermal printer and method of cleaning thermal head A heating element array is cleaned in case foreign matters are adhered or deposited to a thermal head, such as after printing. A color thermal recording paper is fed in a state that the thermal head is heated not so as to develop a cyan thermosensitive coloring laye... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6894711 | Thermal transfer recording web roll A coreless thermal transfer recording web roll 10 is formed by rolling a thermal transfer recording web 10a in a roll. An inner end part 11 of the thermal transfer recording web 10a of the thermal transfer recording web roll... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6877917 | Printer apparatus for thermosensitive adhesive sheet A printer apparatus has a printing device for printing on a printable layer of a thermosensitive adhesive sheet. A heat-application and transporting member heats a thermosensitive adhesive layer of the thermosensitive adhesive sheet and transports the thermosensitiv... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6690405 | Thermal transfer printer, thermal transfer recording method and thermal transfer recording web roll A thermal transfer printer includes a thermal transfer recording web roll having a bore and obtained by rolling a thermal transfer web. The segment of the thermal transfer recording web forming the innermost layer of the thermal transfer recording web rol... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6655287 | Printing apparatus and printing method A printing apparatus has a take-out shaft and a rolling-up shaft to supply an intermediate transfer ribbon provided with a transfer layer having a first area in a prescribed pattern and a blank and transparent second area, a printer portion to print presc... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6593953 | Dual ink jet print carriage for web printing Throughput of ink jet printers can be increased by using multiple print heads, each of which independently prints an image or text on a continuous roll of print media. Independently controlled printer carriages supporting the print heads simultaneously pr... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6589708 | Image recording body and image forming device using the image recording body There is provided improvement of a light-heat conversion in a light-stimulated writing method. An image recording body includes an element, which absorbs light (electromagnetic wave), provided in a surface of a recording body 10, or in a recording layer f... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6568776 | Printing apparatus and power supply load reduction method for printing apparatus In a printing apparatus having a plurality of full-line print heads each having a print element array corresponding to the width of a print medium, upon receiving print data that uses a plurality of print media, a print duty, which is the ratio of the num... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6524000 | Time-temperature indicators activated with direct thermal printing and methods for their production Recording materials are converted in a direct thermal imaging apparatus to time temperature indicators by exposure to heat from the thermal print head of a direct thermal printer. Methods for converting a recording material to a time temperature indicator... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6517239 | Time-temperature indicators activated with thermal transfer printing and methods for their production Time-temperature indicators (TTIs) which are generated by converting indicator compounds from an inactive state to an active state using a thermal transfer printing apparatus are described.... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6436600 | Image-forming substrate and image-forming system using same An image-forming system has an image-forming sheet, and a printer for forming an image on the sheet. The sheet has a sheet of paper, and a layer of microcapsule, coated over the paper sheet, that contains a plurality of microcapsules filled with a dye. A ... | 08/20/2002 |
