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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7766567 | Method of printing with a print assembly having a binding assembly Provided is a method of printing with a print assembly having first and second print engines arranged in an opposing in-line sequential configuration along a paper path. The method includes the steps of drawing a sheet of paper into the first print engine, printing ... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7736075 | Printing arrangement incorporating two-part adhesive application A printing arrangement includes a driving station configured to drive print media along a path. The driving station includes a pair of opposed pinch rollers between which the print media can be pinched when driven. A printing station is configured to print upon the ... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7712984 | Hybrid printer A printing device comprising a casing having a first part housing a first printing mechanism which comprises a printhead and a platen located at a print zone, and a holder for holding a roll of precut label stock in a position to pass through the print zone, and a s... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7401989 | Printing arrangement with driving, printing, adhering and binding stations A printing arrangement includes a driving station configured to drive print media along a path. The driving station includes a pair of opposed pinch rollers between which the print media can be pinched when driven. A printing station is operatively arranged with res... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7390133 | Duplex printer including print unit shifting and web shifting mechanisms After the front surface of a web is printed by a first-side printing unit, the web is shifted in the direction of its width by a direction-changing unit, flipped over by rollers, and transported to a second-side printing unit, where the back surface of the web is pr... | 06/24/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7281251 | Device status monitoring system, device status monitoring method, and a data storage medium and object program therefor A device status monitoring system and method for a POS (point of sale) terminal system, in which an OPOS (OLE for Retail POS) object continuously records changes in device status to a file. A control system (OPOS object) includes a first object (control object) prov... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7275881 | Control of dual printing mechanisms A printing system comprising: a printing device having first and second similar printing mechanisms; first and second similar holding means for holding respective first and second rolls of label stock in a position to pass the first and second printing mechanisms re... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7258500 | Media processing apparatus and scanner unit The media processing apparatus has a first transportation path for guiding the check, a second transportation path and a third transportation path that diverge from the first transportation path, a front scanner that is rendered along the first transportation path f... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7224481 | Image forming apparatus having plural image supporting bodies In a color printer having plural photosensitive drums for respective recording color components, when images are continuously formed on recording sheets, lengths of image data of one page in its main scan direction and its sub scan direction are held for plural page... | 05/29/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7059794 | Methods and apparatus for bursting perforated paper stock Methods and apparatus for bursting perforated paper stock are provided. A feed mechanism is provided for feeding perforated paper stock in a feed direction along a paper path in a printer. The perforated paper stock has sections separated by perforations. A loop are... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7011464 | Apparatus for detecting an end portion of a recording medium A printer having a hopper without shaft which performs a print operation on a roll of continuous paper. Detection marks are provided in flanges provided in supported members removably attached to the continuous paper, and the presence/absence of the detection mark i... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6616357 | Dot line printer A dot line printer having printing heads of uniform characteristics, and reducing the steps number of adjustment for uniform printing quality. A dot line printer having a printing head assembly includes a plurality of spring-charged type printing heads wh... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6543946 | Combination printer A combination printer is described. The combination printer includes a thermal head and an ink printing head, such as a thermal transfer printing head. The thermal head thermally prints on thermal paper by heating. The thermal transfer printing head print... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6296405 | Duplex check printer using a print mechanism pivoted between document paths A printer for printing on both sides of a document includes first printing document guides, through which a document is driven for printing on a first side of the document, second printing document guides, through which the document is driven for printing... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6283649 | Image-forming system A plurality of thermal heads for different colors, are disposed in parallel in a line-printing direction, being offset with respect to each other in a transport direction along which an image-forming sheet is moved via a conveyer path. The image forming s... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6267518 | Ink-jet printing apparatus and ink-jet printing method A first printing unit for forming a front image on one surface and a second printing unit forming a back image on the other surface are respectively constructed with two stages of printing heads. With respect to the image formed on one surface of a printi... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6106173 | Image-forming system including a plurality of thermal heads and an image-forming sheet with a plurality of types of micro-capsules A plurality of thermal heads for different colors, are disposed in parallel in a line-printing direction, being offset with respect to each other in a transport direction along which an image-forming sheet is moved via a conveyer path. The image forming s... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6050733 | Typing method for a photographic printer and typing device for the same Two typing units are disposed in a photographic printer, facing a back face of an exposed color paper. The typing unit comprises a typing head and an ink ribbon cassette which is endless type and is removable. As for 135-type photographic film, one-line t... | 04/18/2000 |
| 5964540 | Printer apparatus A recording apparatus having a memory for storing recording data, and an address counter for controlling addresses in the memory in the direction of the columns or rows. The address counter controls a read start address for starting a process of reading t... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5911527 | Hybrid printer device equipped with a plurality of printing mechanisms and control method therefore A hybrid printer has mounted thereon a plurality of printing mechanisms and error processing appropriate to the respective printing mechanisms with differing functions and appropriate to the printing paper can be performed. Thermal printer state detector ... | 06/15/1999 |
| 5806999 | Double-side printing system A double-side printing system has a printer section for printing images on the obverse side of a card, and a turning section for turning over the card sent out from the printer section and sending back the inverted card to the printer section so as to pri... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5575575 | Small-sized printer having multiple function motor A small-sized printer includes a printing section equipped with a shuttle head in which impact-type printing units are arranged in juxtaposition in a sub-scanning direction, a cylindrical cam for reciprocating the shuttle head in the sub-scanning directio... | 11/19/1996 |
| 5558449 | Simultaneous two-face printing machine The machine is a card printer that carries out simultaneous black-and-white or color printing on both faces of a card. This machine uses two identical printers of the type using thermal printing heads and ribbons placed on either side of a device to guide... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5486057 | Multicolor printer system having multiple print heads A multicolor thermal transfer printer system (20) is disclosed which prints computer controlled patterns on both faces of cards (22) (e.g. credit cards of polymer or paper stock). The system utilizes interdigitally arranged printer modules (30) which are ... | 01/23/1996 |
| 5452959 | Apparatus for printing characters onto both surfaces of a sheet material An apparatus for printing letters, numerical characters and symbols in response to electronic data transmitted from a host machine onto both surfaces of a sheet of paper or film. Rollers move the sheet material along a path toward an outlet, a first print... | 09/26/1995 |
| 5361694 | Interchangeable printhead printing machine A printing machine comprises a print line along which at least one object support can move and a printhead overlying said print line at at least one printing station and twinned with another printhead disposed on standby away from said print line and with... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5330274 | Printing device having at least two printing stations separated spatially from one another A printing head (106) as a first functional unit and at least one further functional unit (107) of the same kind or of a different kind are attached to a common carrier (105) and mounted by means of a carriage for displacement in each case in parallel in ... | 07/19/1994 |
| 4863297 | Thermal printer A multihead thermal printer comprises a plurality of thermal heads arranged around a platen roller. An ink film associated with each thermal head includes an end mark leaving a length to an end of the ink film at least equal to that of one sheet of record... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4824267 | Control apparatus for hammer type impact printer An alterable storage unit is included in a control apparatus to store code conversion tables for transforming type data or type position data into various control data such as a hammer pressure, an amount of ribbon feed and an amount of proportional space... | 04/25/1989 |
| 4722621 | Keyboard assembly and recording apparatus A keyboard assembly for selecting characters to be recorded includes a substrate carrying an array of characters arranged on one face thereof. A character selection device moves between advanced and retracted positions along each of two axes of the array ... | 02/02/1988 |
| 4684269 | Apparatus for printing with character fonts and dot-matrix printing in the same line A composite printing apparatus including a first printing assembly which has character fonts, and a second printing assembly for printing characters with a matrix of dots, wherein a series of input printing data corresponding to a plurality of successive ... | 08/04/1987 |
| 4627751 | Control apparatus for hammer type impact printer An alterable storage unit is included in a control apparatus to store code conversion tables for transforming type data or type position data into various control data such as a hammer pressure, an amount of ribbon feed and an amount of proportional space... | 12/09/1986 |
| 4595303 | Printing apparatus with two print heads A printing apparatus having a first and a second printing assembly supported on a carrier which reciprocates along a line of printing defined on a platen. The first printing assembly has type elements adapted to be abuttable on the platen for printing cha... | 06/17/1986 |
| 4576490 | Multihead serial printer The present invention relates to a multihead serial printer comprising a plurality of printing heads mounted on different carriages and having a high-speed printing mode in which a plurality of printing heads print different letters and a high-density pri... | 03/18/1986 |
| 4444519 | Printers A printer capable of operation as a dot matrix printer, and, alternatively, as a daisy wheel printer, the printer including the carriage providing for the mounting of a daisy wheel and associated hammer solenoid or a dot matrix printhead, the carriage inc... | 04/24/1984 |
| 4441832 | Adaptive high speed serial printer The present invention relates to a serial printer comprising the mechanism for selecting one type by moving the mounted printing wheel and the carrier for moving said mechanism on the print sheet, has the object that the printing can be done at the maximu... | 04/10/1984 |
| 4420267 | Serial printer A serial printer of the type in which a column shift of a carriage carrying a type wheel is effected through a mutual engagement between the rack and the screw member. A first and a second screw members are splined to a common shaft adapted to be driven b... | 12/13/1983 |
| 4389126 | Serial impact printer having two printing modes A serial impact printer has two printing modes, one being a formed-character mode and the other a dot matrix mode. A plurality of dot matrix wires are disposed behind a character carrying member having characters on fingers. One of the wires impacts a sel... | 06/21/1983 |
