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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8043014 | Printer with cantilevered first guide arm and second guide arm moveable along the first guide arm A printer includes a supporting device, a cantilevered first guide arm, a second guide arm, and a printer head. The supporting device is configured to support a material to be printed. The cantilevered first guide arm has a longitudinal direction. The second guide a... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7841789 | Printer with print engine mounted within paper tray A printer includes a housing in which a pair of guide rails is mounted. A print media tray is arranged to move along the guide rails within the housing. A motor assembly is configured to move the print media tray along the guide rails so that the print media tray ca... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7399129 | User interface for a hand-operated printer A hand-operated printer includes a body. A printhead is mounted to the body. A display device is mounted to the body, and a user interface is communicatively coupled to the display device. The user interface provides a user input to the display device that is based ... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7213985 | Method for image reproduction and recording with the methods for positioning, processing and controlling New method for Image reproduction and recording is based on mechanical-guiding-apparatus-free operating methods, with flexible operations (hand, robot, vehicle), with the means for positioning, processing and controlling, and having exclusive plurality of uses. The ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7125184 | Printer with replaceable modules A printer with replaceable modules has a printer and an electronic expansion device. The printer has an operating panel mounted on a top thereof, a connecting mechanism formed on a bottom thereof, and at least one connector mounted on the bottom thereof. The electro... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7054708 | Sheet material cutting system and methods regarding same A system and/or method for cutting designs of text and/or shapes out of sheet material, such as paper, vellum, and other materials used in, for example, the scrapbooking and card making industries. ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7043962 | Sheet material type detector A sheet material type detecting method for detecting a sheet material type has the steps of applying tension to at least a part of a sheet material, bounding an impact applying part on the part applied with the tension, a period detecting step of determining a perio... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7044665 | Computerized apparatus and method for applying graphics to surfaces The invention is directed to an apparatus for applying at least one graphic to at least one surface, comprising a portable scaffolding system that may be telescoped to accommodate a length and a width of the surface; a host device for receiving at least one head att... | 05/16/2006 |
| 6674543 | Manually positioned printer with an alignment means A printer with a housing arranged to be manually positioned on an image receiving medium. In order to allow easy alignment, a window is provided such that the print face is visible through the window. A controller of the printer is operable to detect mark... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6296403 | Dual-mode printer for flexible and rigid substrates A dual-mode printer for printing on both flexible and rigid substrates includes a table providing a substantially planar support surface for supporting a substrate. A flexible-substrate feed system is configured to feed a flexible substrate in a given fee... | 10/02/2001 |
| 5441589 | Flat bed daisy wheel hot debossing stamper A dual station hot debossing stamper for a report or book cover includes a print engine having a character finger daisy wheel forcer and a logo die forcer which are actuatable independently by a common servo motor through respective gear trains. The print... | 08/15/1995 |
| 5308173 | Self-propelled composite printing device for printing either on a tape or on a flat surface A composite printing device comprises a portable printer and a tape printer case removably engageable with the portable printer from below. The portable printer includes a bottom printing head, a pair of drive wheels and a pair of idle wheels. The tape pr... | 05/03/1994 |
| 5184907 | Portable printer for printing on a flat sheet A portable word processor transports a printing sheet along a straight path without flexing or bending it such that its output can be printed by a printer head even on an inflexible sheet.... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5163759 | Signmaking machine using character forming tool for overlapping impacts and web scoring A microprocessor controlled signmaking machine (1) including a reciprocating plunger (210) that impacts adhesive sheet material (46, 46a-d) to form a sign (48) including one or more characters separable from the sheet material (46, 46a-d) that can be adhe... | 11/17/1992 |
| 5135317 | Stationary printhead with moving platen Accordingly, an apparatus has been provided for printing identifying indicia on a work product. The apparatus includes a print mechanism and a transport for imparting relative motion between the work product and the print mechanism. The work product and t... | 08/04/1992 |
| 5110225 | Manual printer A manual printer has a casing of a shape suitable for mounting on a table, a guide rail installed in the casing, a guide member movably connected to the guide rail, a base supported on the cursor and projecting outwardly through a front opening of the cas... | 05/05/1992 |
| 5035521 | Envelope printing mechanism The elements of a printing mechanism, including a platen, print head and drive motors, are constructed and arranged to provide a clearance permitting an envelope to remain entirely in a flat condition in a plane tangent to the platen at the location of th... | 07/30/1991 |
| 4933867 | Printing apparatus A printing apparatus connected to a data processing device includes a printing section having a printing head, a detector for detecting the moving velocity of the printing head and a control circuit integrally incorporated therein. The control circuit ser... | 06/12/1990 |
| 4932323 | Type holder, printing type and printing wheel incorporating them Printing type holder, comprising a rotary drive spindle, a support coaxial with the spindle, which is integral in rotation therewith and has at least one cylindrical part with an outer lateral surface, cavities provided on the outer lateral surface, perma... | 06/12/1990 |
| 4930911 | Flat-bed heated finger daisy wheel hot debossing stamper A peripheral or stand-alone computerized stamp printer is provided particularly for office use in which a print assembly including a pressure cam and leaf spring arrangement is associated with a heated print head which contacts and impresses a daisy wheel... | 06/05/1990 |
| 4915027 | Hand-held manually operable printing apparatus A manually operable sweeping-type compact printer apparatus includes a key entry unit, a display unit, a memory unit, an encoder and a printer unit which are mounted on a manually manipulatable housing. When the housing is manually moved over a printing m... | 04/10/1990 |
| 4819083 | Moving type image recording apparatus A moving type image recording apparatus wherein an image on an original document is recorded on a substance to be recorded by moving an apparatus body having a recording device, the recording device being driven based on an information from a detecting de... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4802014 | Portable transfer apparatus Information of an object to be read out is read out by an image sensor synchronizing with a first synchronous signal and is stored in a memory which is then subjected to printing on a transfer surface in synchronism with a second synchronous signal by mov... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4750049 | Hand-held copying apparatus A hand-held copying apparatus has a reading window of a read division disposed on a leading end outwardly of two parallel rollers which define a reference plane placed on the surface to be read. A storage division for storing information read by the read ... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4699052 | Electronically controlled printing device A printing device for printing characters and codes on surfaces. In one form, the device is contained within a hand-held housing of rectangular parallelepiped configuration having an opening in one of the major surfaces thereof through which opening print... | 10/13/1987 |
| 4528754 | Self-propelled drawing device or tracing device A self-propelled drawing device is driven by two independent wheels whose axes are fixed, and has a writing tip which marks the drawing medium at a point which is not on the imaginary line joining the points of contact of the wheels with the drawing mediu... | 07/16/1985 |
| 4523235 | Electronic microcopier apparatus An electronic microcopier apparatus includes a reading head, an electronic memory and a writing head, all contained within a small case that may be held in the hand. In the reading mode the instrument is passed over images, such as written text, where pho... | 06/11/1985 |
| 4412232 | Ink jet printer An ink jet printer includes a print head having a plurality of piezoelectric driving elements selectively energizable to cause ejection of droplets of ink through nozzles in a nozzle plate. Ink is supplied to the print head from an ink reservoir which is ... | 10/25/1983 |
| 4197550 | Apparatus for an automatic marking of drawings The apparatus is used for the automatic marking of drawings with alphanumeric and other drawing symbols. A carriage is designed to travel over the drawing without damaging the drawings. Means are provided to rigidly hold the carriage in place over the poi... | 04/08/1980 |
| 4168533 | Microcomputerized miniature postage meter A microcomputerized, miniature postage meter comprises an ink jet printing device adapted to project ink droplets onto a document. A microcomputer, which performs the control and data processing functions of the meter, includes a logic circuit programmed ... | 09/18/1979 |
| 3976180 | Matrix printer comprising one or more stackable groups of printing wires A matrix printer comprising one or more identical groups of printing wires which are guided in ducts in stackable plates of synthetic material. In the case of a plurality of stacked groups, the distance at the area of the printing ends of the wires betwee... | 08/24/1976 |
