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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8038236 | Device for patterning workpieces The invention provides a device for patterning workpieces, having: an ink-jet printing means having a plurality of nozzles from which drops of ink can be expelled, a workpiece carrier means for carrying the workpiece to be patterned, a conveyor means for bringing ab... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8038237 | Transport apparatus for flat materials to be printed A transport apparatus for flat materials to be printed is used in a printing apparatus having a printing module. The transport apparatus is disposed in the printing apparatus in a stationary manner relative to a pressing apparatus which presses an item of mail onto ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8033624 | System and method for printing a continuous web employing a plurality of interleaved ink-jet pens fed by a bulk ink source This invention provides a system and method for printing continuous web and feeding ink to printing pens (or cartridges) that employs an array of interleaved ink-jet pens that are arranged to receive bulk ink through a manifold. The manifold and pens are mounted on ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7905562 | Liquid guiding device and liquid ejecting apparatus To provide a liquid guiding device such that, when liquid is dumped onto a sloping guiding surface portion located in a region where ink is dumped, the liquid is easily guided to an ink absorber and no liquid remains on the guiding surface portion. A guiding surface... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7874629 | Printing apparatus, a method to indicate necessity of exchanging exchangeable parts, and a computer usable medium therefor A printing apparatus for forming an image on fabric is provided. The printing apparatus includes a plurality of exchangeable fabric holders, a recording head, which is driven according to printable data including image information representing the image to be printe... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7819489 | Concurrently printing an image on a food product and a corresponding image on packaging for the food product A method for printing images on food and packaging for the food. The method includes the step of moving a plurality of food products along a first production line to a first printing station. The method also includes the step of moving a plurality of containers alon... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7677682 | Modular printer with substantially identical duplexed printhead assemblies A modular printer includes a frame. A housing in which the frame is housed has an operatively upper and an operatively lower cover and defines a print media inlet at one end between the covers and a print media outlet at an opposite end between the covers. An inlet ... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7669947 | Industrial ink jet print head system A print mechanism positioned in a housing having a pivotably mounted cover and including a ink flow regulator operatively connected to a print cartridge and provided with a plurality of seals to prevent contamination and damage from unwanted ink flow. ... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7416276 | Digitally active 3-D object creation system A method of printing a three-dimensional object is provided. The method comprises providing a plurality of stationary printhead layer groups, each layer group comprising at least one printhead for printing a respective layer of the object; conveying a partially-form... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7410097 | Cash dispensing automated banking machine deposit printing system and method An automated banking machine which dispenses cash and includes a mechanism for accepting deposited items. Deposited items may be provided to the machine in envelopes which are first passed to a user from an envelope storage area (132) in the machine through a... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7393070 | Printing device, printing device control, program and method, and printing data generation device, program and method A printing device including: an image data acquisition unit acquiring image data corresponding to pixels of the image; a printing data generation unit generating, based on the acquired image data, printing data including information about dot formation details based... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7390362 | Thermal printer A thermal printer comprising a dispenser configured to dispense a medium from a stack of mediums and a conveyor belt assembly configured to receive the medium from the dispenser and convey the medium from a first position to a second position. A thermal printer is l... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7363105 | Insertion control According to the invention, an insertion system for collating sheets of printed material for insertion into an envelope is disclosed. The insertion system includes an insertion machine, application software and an operating system. Included in the application softwa... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7354122 | Printing of redundantly encoded distributed data A method of printing digital data on a photograph includes loading an image processing program, transforming image data with the image processing program to produce transformed image data; redundantly encoding the transformed image data and the image processing prog... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7350716 | Mechanism for ensuring authenticity of written and printed documents A mechanism for ensuring the authenticity of written and printed documents. With the mechanism of the present invention, electronic ink is deposited onto a document, wherein the electronic ink deposited comprises at least one mark visible to a user. Current is appli... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7341326 | Image forming apparatus and method of controlling image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus by which an image formed on a printing medium by image forming means on the basis of image data can be related to the image data includes a controller which prepares management information corresponding to the image data, and controls an o... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339690 | Identification card printer with client/server An identification card printer for printing an image on an identification card, is provided which includes a print mechanism adapted to deposit material on to the card. A network adapter is configured to couple to a network. A print drive module controls the print m... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7338155 | Printing device A printing device, which reduces weight and space while ensuring excellent stability, includes a medium conveyance section on which a workpiece such as a fabric can be set, a fixed side structure for supporting the same, and a head for performing printing onto the w... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7334886 | Bulk ink delivery system for ink jet printers and the like A bulk ink delivery system for ink jet printers and the like includes one or more cartridge housings which conform to the shape of a manufacturer's standard, ink-filled cartridge so that the cartridge housing may be substituted for the ink-filled cartridge normally ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7332037 | Numerical jet machine for the application of a coating onto a substrate The invention concerns a contactless numerical printing machine for products of average fluidity, such as varnish, glue, and conducting or scratchable ink, onto a substrate of variable thickness and dimensions. The machine includes a special device for printing with... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7328956 | Printer comprising a printhead and at least two printer controllers connected to a common input of the printhead A printer comprising a printhead comprising at least a first elongate printhead module, the at least one printhead module including at least one row of print nozzles for expelling ink; and at least first and second printer controllers configured to receive print dat... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7321212 | Restricted motion motor control with visual indication A visual indication for a motor controlled shaft, especially useful for retrofitting hand controlled printing presses. ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7311367 | Apparatus and methods for sensing and clamping discs Apparatus and methods are provided. At least one clamping finger of a movable tray of a compact disc printer pushes against an outer periphery of a compact disc disposed on a surface of the tray to clamp the compact disc between the clamping finger and a pair of stu... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310161 | Combined flat bed scanner/printer machine A combined flat bed scanner/printer machine having: a moving body; a scan module connected to the moving body to read a document; and a recording head connected to the moving body adjacent to the scan module, to print on a paper. The moving body is moved by a moving... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7309123 | Recording apparatus A recording apparatus includes: a feeder, provided in an upstream in a transfer path for transferring a medium, for feeding the medium to a downstream in the transfer path one by one, the medium being stacked at an angle; a recording head, provided in the downstream... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7306323 | 3D object creation system comprising a plurality of layer groups A three-dimensional object creation system is provided. The system comprises a plurality of stationary printhead layer groups, each layer group comprising at least one printhead for printing a respective layer of the object; and a conveyor for conveying a partially-... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7306319 | 3D object creation system comprising a plurality of layer groups and fault detection system A three-dimensional object creation system is provided. The system comprises: (i) a first printhead layer group comprising a plurality of first printheads configured for printing a first layer of the object; (ii) a second printhead layer group comprising a plurality... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7302308 | Embroidery data processing device There is provided a embroidery data processing device, which includes an extracting system that extracts at least one embroidery region from embroidery data that has a stitch attribute corresponding to at least one predetermined setting, and a print data generating ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7290146 | Managed credential issuance In a method of issuing a credential, a request for issuance of the credential is received. Next, a unique identification for the requested credential is assigned and data elements corresponding to the credential are provided. A credential production data collection ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286257 | Graphic printing machine for card-type storage medium, method for printing said storage media and storage media A graphic printing machine and method for a card-type storage medium employs a jet printing head and a controller to perform ink jet printing on the medium. The invention is useful for printing plastic or cardboard or paper cards. ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7281668 | Coding pattern comprising a plurality of marks A product provided with a coding pattern which comprises a plurality of marks, each of which represents one of at least two different values, and which further comprises a plurality of nominal positions, each of the plurality of marks being associated with a nominal... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7278696 | Inkjet recording apparatus An inkjet recording apparatus ejects ink from recording heads to a recording paper, thereby attaching the ink to the medium for recording. The apparatus includes a carriage driving motor, a transfer motor, a scanner which reciprocates a carriage having the recording... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7275803 | System and method for printing a code on an elongate article and the code so printed A method and apparatus for printing a redundant code on an elongate article are disclosed. The apparatus includes an ink unit, at least one printing head and a controller. The printing head includes two, or three, valves, controlled by the controller. As the elongat... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7261388 | Error reduction by print masks In a method of printing a plurality of pages during a print job, a page-wide-array printing device having redundant dot-forming elements is used. Print masks distribute dot-forming-element activity between the redundant dot-forming elements in a manner taking into a... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7254931 | Method and system for creating mailpieces from a single continuous web of printed material A method for creating mailpieces from a single web of printed material. The web of printed material includes a continuous web having a width and a length, the length comprised of a series of attached sheets. The series of attached sheets is comprised of envelope she... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7237485 | Print supply monitoring An identification card printer includes a card input, a card transport, a printhead, and a card output. The card transport is configured to feed a card from the card input along a print path. The printhead is positioned below the print path and is configured to prin... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7202970 | Method and system of printing identification card (ID) using an inkjet printer The present invention is embodied in a printing system for printing identification cards with durable full-color images using an inkjet printing device. In general, the present invention provides an inkjet printing device that is used to print images on a plastic id... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7198341 | Enhanced electronic ink displays An apparatus for rewritably labeling data media, such as compact disks CDs, DVDs, or other forms of media. The media may be programmed within a player/recorder device adapted for programming the state of the electronic ink material on the media. Labels on the media ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7196813 | Method of making printed matter and the printed matter The present invention provides a print creating method which can instantaneously create media such as advertisements which are agreeable to the customer by incorporating therein customer snapshots, etc. by the process of printing with an ink-jet recording system on ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7187637 | Opto-mechanical adjustment based on sensing label side of optical disc Opto-mechanical adjustment based on sensing the label side of an optical disc is disclosed. The label side of the optical disc is first sensed with an opto-mechanical system. The opto-mechanical system is then adjusted, based on the label side of the optical disc as... | 03/06/2007 |
