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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 7302888 | Method and apparatus for rotational media printing An apparatus for use in printing to a rotational media having a surface to be printed to and being rotatable about an axis extending away from the surface is provided. The apparatus includes an engaging arrangement to engage the rotational media so as to impart cont... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7281874 | Thermal printer unit A thermal printer unit is disclosed that comprises a main body module, a platen module, and a thermal head module. The platen module is detachably connected to the main body module. The thermal head module is detachably connected to the main body module and the plat... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7213993 | Thermally activating device and printer apparatus A thermally activating device has a pair of conveyor rollers which convey a heat-sensitive adhesive sheet while sandwiching the sheet therebetween, and a guide member provided at an anterior stage of the conveyor rollers for abutting on one surface of the heat-sensi... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7114866 | Tape printing apparatus A tape printing apparatus that prints a character string including a plurality of character regions divided by specified delimiting codes, which composes of space codes, tab codes and new block codes, onto a tape, there is provided a normal printing means for perfor... | 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 |
| 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 |
| 6953245 | Ink-jet printing apparatus and ink-jet printing method An ink-jet printing apparatus and an ink-jet printing method are provided which can improve a quick-drying performance of an ink containing an ultraviolet curing agent while at the same time preventing harm done by ink mist. When the printing head ejects ink contain... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6896428 | Printer read after print correlation method and 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... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6836276 | Thermal master making device and thermal printer including the same A thermal master making device and a thermal printer including the same are disclosed. A thermistor senses ambient temperature around a thermal head. A correcting device corrects the amount of heat to be generated by the thermal head, i.e., the duration of energizat... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6739245 | Method for controlling printing in a mail-processing device A method for controlling the printing in a mail processing device proceeds on the basis of a word-by-word storage of binary pixel data in the pixel memory with a predefined number of successive data words forming a data string, and a predefined number of data string... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6588952 | Ink feed arrangement for a print engine An ink feed arrangement for feeding ink to a printhead of a print engine includes a spine portion. A casing is mounted over the spine portion, the spine portion and the casing defining a plurality of parallel, but isolated, ink supply galleries. A plurali... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6503006 | Variable power thermal printer A printer using a power reduction logic based upon reducing the speed of printing when the dot utilization calculation exceeds a particular power level for that printer. There is also provided a method for printing information at a given power supply capa... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6417915 | System for rupturing microcapsules filled with a dye In an image-forming system, an image-forming substrate is used, which has a sheet of paper, and a layer of microcapsules coated over the sheet of paper. The layer of microcapsules includes at least one type of microcapsules filled with an ink. A shell wal... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6092939 | Printing apparatus and printing registration method A printing apparatus and a printing registration method permits printing registration between a forward and a reverse scan of a head cartridge between a plurality of head cartridges without troubling a user and simply. By forward and reverse scan of the h... | 07/25/2000 |
| 5978006 | Thermal dye transfer printing method with electrical loss compensation A thermal printing method using a printing head (6, 20) with a plurality of resistive points (Pi) activated by the pulses of a supply voltage (Va) that fluctuates (ƊV) depending on the number (N) of simultaneously activated resistive points (P... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5733052 | Thermal printer A thermal printer has a thermal line printhead, which contacts a recording sheet and creates images on the recording sheet. A platen roller is positioned in a fixed location and bears against the thermal line printhead. When a covering member is closed, t... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5699166 | Copying machine for reproducing an image on a continuous web of labels A copying machine is provided which generally includes a scanner unit (2) for reading an original image, a line type thermal head (14) for printing the read image on to a tape (16) which is used as a recording medium, a tape cartridge (51) for supplying t... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5690436 | Thermal printer A thermal printer that performs thermal printing by employing a commonly-used thermo-sensitive recording sheet. In the thermal printing, a thermal head starts heating the recording sheet from the back side of a base that covers a recording surface in orde... | 11/25/1997 |
| 5669720 | Thermal printer with minimized power difference between sequentially driven blocks of printing elements A thermal printer has a thermal head provided with a plurality of thermal elements arranged linearly. The thermal printer also includes a power source capable of supplying a predetermined power level to the plurality of thermal elements which generate hea... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5611630 | Method and apparatus for securely printing a postal indicia image having a different dot density in two dimensions thereof A method for printing a postal indicia includes printing a first dot-matrix ink pattern of the postal indicia; and printing a second dot-matrix ink pattern of a portion of the postal indicia in overlapping relationship to the first dot-matrix ink pattern ... | 03/18/1997 |
| 5443318 | Printing device for printing image on tape like member A printing device for selectively printing a normal posture character image or reverse posture character image on a tape like image receiving member by using a thermal head. In the normal posture character image printing, a non-lamination type printing ta... | 08/22/1995 |
| 5424760 | Cover interlock mechasnism for a thermal printer locks cover while printing A cover interlock mechanism for a thermal printer is diclosed which locks the thermal printer cover when printing is being done and, when the print head is in a disassembled position, unlocks the cover.... | 06/13/1995 |
| 5424757 | Thermal printer and cassette therefor A printer comprises a cassette bay (8) having a lid (16), a printing mechanism comprising a thermal print head (26) and a platen (32) and a linkage (38,50) coupled between the lid and the printing mechanism. On opening the lid, the linkage causes the prin... | 06/13/1995 |
| 5416500 | Method and apparatus for high precision thermal printing applicable to variety of printing targets A high precision thermal printing capable of thermally printing diverse patterns on variety of printing targets having not necessarily flat printing surfaces, stably and efficiently, at a very high precision. In this thermal printing, a first film for car... | 05/16/1995 |
| 5416503 | Thermal head controller An electric erosion can be prevented from occurring in a thermal head when a bias voltage is being applied to the thermal head on non-printing. When the bias voltage is being applied to heating resistance elements in the thermal head on non-printing, a mo... | 05/16/1995 |
| 5382101 | Printer driving apparatus for line printer A printer driving apparatus for a line printer comprises: a measuring circuit to measure the number of print dots; and a driving circuit which can change drive timings of dots of a print head in correspondence to a print ratio in each print cycle. When th... | 01/17/1995 |
| 5191355 | Device for adjusting the heat-generating time of a thermal printer head There is disclosed a device for flexibly adjusting the strobe pulse width corresponding to the heat-generating resistance grade of a thermal printer head through a DIP switch. The DIP switch generates a number of states of voltages corresponding to the gr... | 03/02/1993 |
| 4616941 | Thermal dot type printing apparatus A thermal dot type printing apparatus includes a thermal head having N heating elements arranged in a line, a head driver which allows a current to selectively flow through the heating elements in accordance with N-bit dot data, and a control circuit for ... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4566813 | Dot-matrix print controller A dot-matrix print controller having a dot pattern generating means for generating a dot pattern to be printed and a means for supplying current pulses to a dot-matrix print head in accordance with an output of said dot pattern generating means, said cont... | 01/28/1986 |
| 4219824 | Thermal recording apparatus The output voltage of the drive power source for energizing the heating resistor elements on the thermal recording head, falls in response to the increase in the currents through the elements. This invention provides a thermal recording apparatus in which... | 08/26/1980 |
