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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6089768 | Print ribbon feeder and detection system A clean print ribbon feed system and method for a printer having a ribbon with two non-inked clean hands portions wound around a pair of spools is disclosed. Detection of the spool having greater angular velocity and lesser angular velocity determines the... | 07/18/2000 |
| 5605405 | Ink ribbon for a printer, typewriter or the like An ink ribbon for a printer or the like has a leading and/or trailing, optically operative control strip. The control strip has only a first light-impervious or opaque control portion and a second transparent control portion. The control portion adjoining... | 02/25/1997 |
| 5366303 | Printer ribbon motor controller This disclosure sets forth a dot matrix printer having an improved ribbon drive. The ribbon drive is provided by two respective stepper motors. When one stepper motor is in a take-up mode, the second is in a feed mode. The process is reversed proximate th... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5152625 | Dual use of ribbon sensor in a printing device A recording device in which an ink ribbon is used and recording is performed shifting the ribbon in the direction of the width of the ribbon and having a sensor for detecting the end of an effective portion of the ribbon. Using the end sensor, the vertica... | 10/06/1992 |
| 5110229 | Printing device having a ribbon cassette with a end of ribbon sensor A printing device including a mounting base on which a ribbon cassette accommodating a ribbon having a transparent terminal end part is removably loaded, light emitting and receiving elements fixed on the mounting base and a reflective plate fixed on the ... | 05/05/1992 |
| 5005999 | Ink cassette with control means for alternately driving one of two spool bearing therein An ink ribbon cassette includes two rotatable bearings for respective spools, a drive system for alternately rotating one or the other of the two bearings so that a ribbon extending between the spools positioned on the bearings will be moved in opposite d... | 04/09/1991 |
| 4496955 | Apparatus for thermal printing Apparatus for thermally printing images, such as color images, on a print medium. The medium is moved repeatedly from a reference position through a printing region, as by rotating the medium on a platen. Thermal print elements are disposed at the print r... | 01/29/1985 |
