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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7397489 | System and method for efficient donor material use Methods and control systems are provided for operating a thermal printer adapted to print images by heating and transferring donor material from donor patch sets from onto a receiver medium, the printer being operable to print images in a manner that exhausts a full... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7362345 | Printer and printing method A printer includes a conveyance mechanism capable of conveying a long recording medium in a first direction from a supply unit storing therein the recording medium, toward an image recording unit capable of recording a color image on the recording medium, and in a s... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7322762 | Tape-like object feeding device and label tape printing device A tape-like object feeding device in accordance with the present invention comprises a feeding mechanism 7 for feeding a tape-like object toward an outlet and a cutting mechanism 8 for cutting the tape-like object fed by the feeding mechanism. An eject... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7315317 | Printer A printer includes a conveyance mechanism capable of conveying a long recording medium in a first direction from a supply unit storing therein the recording medium, toward an image recording unit capable of recording a color image on the recording medium, and in a s... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7265771 | Printer capable of detecting status of unutilized ribbon A printer includes a ribbon supply end, a ribbon retrieving end, and a ribbon. The two ends of the ribbon are installed on the ribbon supply end and the ribbon retrieving end respectively. The printer further includes a print head, a print medium fixture, a driving ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7250959 | Printer with multi-pass media transport A thermal printer and method for operating a thermal printer are provided. The thermal printer has a receiver medium path leading past a print nip between a print head and platen. A processor causes an urge roller to move the receiver medium in the forward direction... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7249903 | Assembly for feeding a continuous roll of web material to a sheet fed printing device An assembly for feeding, printing, and cutting a continuous web of material is provided. The web is fed from a roll supported in a roll feeding unit to a printer unit. The web can carry distinct image-receiving media items or can be a plain continuous web material. ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7223031 | Print ribbon panel color identification A ribbon sensor includes a first and second emitter and a receiver. The first emitter is configured to transmit a yellow light signal and the second emitter is configured to transmit a blue light signal. The receiver is configured to produce an output signal in resp... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7084891 | Photoprinter printing image on recording paper A key operating portion is operated and a scaling size of an image to be printed is selected. Then, the number of the images to be printed is selected. Further, when printing of a plurality of images is set, if a continuous printing determining portion determines th... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7073963 | Film support devices and printing system handling ink film for printing A system is provided for movably supporting an ink film in a printer. The system has cylindrical supply and take-up cores for supporting and taking up the film during printing operations. The cores may be made of molded plastic resin. The ends of the cores are sized... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7071961 | Ribbon drive and tensioning system for a print and apply engine for a printer An apparatus for driving and tensioning a ribbon includes a supply spindle for supplying a ribbon, a supply dancer assembly for applying tension to the ribbon, a printhead, a take-up dancer assembly for applying tension to the ribbon, and a take-up spindle for colle... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7025518 | Printer for thermally sensitive adhesive sheet A printer has a printing unit for printing during a printing operation on a printable surface of a thermally sensitive adhesive sheet having a thermally sensitive adhesive layer formed on a surface opposite to the printable surface. A first transporting mechanism tr... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6979080 | Printer having improved recording medium feeding mechanism A printer includes a print head including nozzles that eject ink on a recording medium sheet, first and second rollers provided on a sheet feeding path for feeding the sheet therealong, a platen provided between the first and second rollers for guiding the sheet on ... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6962742 | Pattern card A pattern card has a base material being composed of a paper sheet and a color texture layer printed on the paper sheet. A wax layer is formed on the base material. A protection printing ink is coated on the wax layer. A picture printing ink is partially coated on t... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6870556 | Thermal printer and method for transferring dyes on multiple dye blocks onto media A method includes distributing grayscales of dye blocks in each of a plurality of color blocks to be printed as an image on a medium according to grayscales of the image to be printed on the medium and a predetermined printing rule, transferring the dyes of the dye ... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6827515 | Stacker for a printer A transaction-based printer has a sheet drive for forwarding a sheet through a printing station to a cutting station where the sheet is severed from a spool by a rotary cutter. A kicker element is mounted in the cutting station. Movement of the kicker element is coo... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6816180 | Authenticated images on labels A method of forming authenticated secure images on image areas on labels including the steps of storing in memory a number of different selectable label size and shapes; selecting an appropriate label size and shape from the memory for a particular image; moving a c... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6726383 | Color printer with a single sensor for detecting ink ribbon position A color printer with a single photo sensor for detecting the position of the ink ribbon. A single photo sensor is place so that it can detect transparent and opaque sections of the ink ribbon. The ribbon winds at a constant speed, so the pattern of transparent and o... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6706353 | Image forming substrate An image-forming substrate has a sheet of paper, and a layer of microcapsules coated over the paper sheet. The microcapsule layer contains at least one type of microcapsules filled with a liquid dye, and a shell wall of each of the microcapsules is composed of resin... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6648526 | Printing apparatus and printing method A printing apparatus for printing a recording medium includes a recording medium transport device for transporting the recording medium from a supply portion along a transport path; a first printing device arranged on the transport path for forming an ima... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6210053 | Image-forming apparatus with a thermal head including an arcuate bimetal element In an image-forming system, an image-forming substrate is used that includes a paper sheet, and a microcapsule layer, coated over the paper sheet, which contains at least one type of microcapsule filled with a dye. Each microcapsule exhibits a characteris... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6010258 | Display system, display method, ink ribbon, printer and image formation apparatus A display system wherein a photograph 110 on which an image is printed is prepared. The image data of the photograph 110 is read out by a scanner 111 to make an input. A personal computer 112 subjects the input image data to a video processing. A printer ... | 01/04/2000 |
| 5841459 | Color-to-color registration in thermal printers by adjusting image resolution based on image content A color thermal dye transfer printer that produces superposed color plane images of varying image densities on a receiver medium includes a printhead movable in a print direction relative to the receiver medium to produce images on the receiver medium at ... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5743663 | Record medium feeding in a color thermal printer In the pull-out direction of continuous color thermosensitive recording paper, a cutter, a transport roller pair, a thermal head, and a fixing unit are disposed in this order. The transport roller pair alternately performs pull-out and pull-back of the co... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5718522 | Heat transfer printer A thermal transfer printer having an improved structure to transport a recording paper and an ink ribbon by a capstan motor is provided. The printer includes a rotating shaft installed between frames, and in parallel with a capstan roller. A clutch mechan... | 02/17/1998 |
| 5718523 | Thermal transfer printing device and method A thermal transfer printer for printing images and patterns on a card with thermally transferable color inks while moving the card back and forth in such a state that the card is held and urged against a thermal print head through an ink ribbon by capstan... | 02/17/1998 |
| 5645362 | Printer A printer for printing characters and images on recording paper comprising: a paper cassette for storing the recording paper; a platen roller around which the recording paper is wound at the time of the transfer of images for printing; a clamping mechanis... | 07/08/1997 |
| 5636928 | Thermal transfer card printing device and method A thermal transfer printer for printing images and patterns on a card with thermally transferable color inks while moving the card back and forth in such a state that the card is held and urged against a thermal print head through an ink ribbon by capstan... | 06/10/1997 |
| 5618117 | Roll paper type recording unit A paper guide printer with simple structure, high positioning accuracy and color print of excellent picture quality. The printer/recording unit includes a platen roller, a roll type recording paper which is pulled and fed on the platen roller and a record... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5570961 | Color printer feeding mechanism A color printer comprises a recording sheet tray 3 capable of storing numerous recording sheets 2, a sheet feed/discharge roller 293 feeding an uppermost recording sheet 2 from the recording sheet tray 3 to a platen roller 7, and a clamp mechanism section... | 11/05/1996 |
| 5502477 | Thermal transfer type color printer A color printer for recording an image having at least two colors on a recording sheet with a recording head being brought into contact with a platen roller in a state that the recording sheet is interposed therebetween, the two colors being successively ... | 03/26/1996 |
| 5499880 | Print head includes donor guide and receiver guide A thermal printer, which is adapted to transfer an image from a donor web to a sheet of receiver medium, includes a thermal print head and a platen that together define a print nip. There are respective paths for the donor web and the sheet, and the paths... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5480238 | Thermal transfer printer The invention aims at selecting a recording sheet discharge mode in accordance with user's priority of printing speed or printed image quality. In the thermal transfer printer, when discharge concurrent with printing is selected, a microcomputer operates ... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5476329 | Printing method and apparatus for thermal transfer printer A printing method and apparatus wherein the circumference of a drum is shorter than the length of paper so that the paper is wound around the drum with the top and bottom ends of the paper overlapping by a predetermined length. Printing begins at a positi... | 12/19/1995 |
| 5474394 | Printing apparatus A printing apparatus employs a nearly linear conveying path P2 for printing paper P from a position confronting the platen roller 6 and thermal head 7 for composing the printing unit 3 to the paper discharge unit 2. The capstan roller 4, pinch roller 5, a... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5445464 | Ink ribbon usage in a multicolor image recording apparatus An image recording apparatus for recording an image on a recording medium has a plurality of ink ribbon mounting portions on which a multicolor ink ribbon having inks of plural colors and a monochromatic ink ribbon having monochromatic ink can be mounted,... | 08/29/1995 |
| 5431503 | Sheet guiding in thermal printer A printer for printing characters and images on recording paper comprising: a paper cassette for storing the recording paper; a platen roller around which the recording paper is wound at the time of the transfer of images for printing; a clamping mechanis... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5399031 | Assisting movement of dye receiver past thermal print head A color thermal printer loads a dye receiver for printing by moving the dye receiver in a first direction through a gap between a print head and a platen. A dye donor, also positioned in the gap, moves in the first direction during receiver loading. The m... | 03/21/1995 |
| 5296874 | Thermal printer A thermal printer in which a sheet of recording paper is held by and between a thermal print head includes a plurality of heat generating elements and a platen drum, the amounts of heat of the heat generating elements are selectively changed, and an image... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5287124 | Color video printer having a multicolor printing mode and a monochromatic printing mode A color video printing apparatus includes a first sensor detecting a recording medium and determining whether the recording medium is a thermalsensible one, and a second sensor detecting a color ink ribbon cartridge which accommodates a color ink ribbon t... | 02/15/1994 |
