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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 |
| 7140791 | Vertical autosizing printing system A method for printing an image on an elongate image receiving medium includes the steps of: inputting data defining the image to be printed; selecting a vertical printing mode in which the image is to be printed across the width of the elongate image receiving mediu... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7130450 | System and method for measuring and quantizing document quality Text, images, and/or graphics of electronic documents should be organized and laid out in a two-dimensional format for presentation to the viewer. The best such layout depends upon the content present, the creator's intent, the output device, and the viewer's intere... | 10/31/2006 |
| 6438509 | Character layout method, image forming method and stamp-making method and apparatus therefor An image forming method, a stamp-making method, and apparatuses implementing these methods are provided. Each of characters included in each character string on one or a plurality of lines are laid out within a rectangular contour having a defined width i... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6012860 | Tape printing device and tape cartridge used therein The present invention provides a tape printing device for printing a desirable series of characters on a tape and cutting the tape to a label of a desirable length, and also a tape cartridge used in the tape printing device. The tape cartridge has a chara... | 01/11/2000 |
| 5980133 | Tape printing device The present invention provides an improved tape printing device for printing a desirable series of characters in a preferable balance on a tape through a simple operation. The tape printing device of the invention is used for printing text data in a plura... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5549399 | Tape printing method and apparatus having horizontal and rotated printing modes An apparatus and method of printing characters and symbols either vertically or horizontally on an elongated recording medium adjusts the position of vertically printed characters and symbols so that the vertically printed characters and symbols are evenl... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5464290 | Device and method for printing characters on tape having a controller to evenly space characters A tape printing device which prints an input text consisting of one or more lines of characters on tape. In case of this tape printing device, a judgement portion judges whether the number of lines of characters of the input text is not less than two, and... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5403101 | Tape printer having line enhancement capability A tape printer includes a thermal head (13) fixedly mounted on a frame (2) wherein the thermal head (13) prints character strings on a tape (5) uni-directionally moving past the thermal head (13). A keyboard (3) is provided for entering characters and dat... | 04/04/1995 |
| 5399029 | Method of kerning in the processing of documents written in European languages Kerning information that allows font characters to contact the outlines of immediately preceding characters when the setting of character spaces is zero is set for the data on said font characters. The result of output with the setting of character spaces... | 03/21/1995 |
| 5399030 | Tape print device having print format control The document data of a plurality of blocks are input and an auto size is set. After this, when a print key is operated, the data concerning the width of a tape is read out by a cassette distinction sensor. Then, the block number is calculated based on the... | 03/21/1995 |
| 5230572 | Tape printer having spacing function A tape printer automatically expands an input character string up to the length of a desired printing range. Operating a fixed length key after input of printing data causes an indication, for example, "PRINTING LENGTH: 10" to appear. The "PRINTING LENGTH... | 07/27/1993 |
| 4904099 | Electronic typewriter Character and control code data are input from a keyboard into a memory. A CRT display unit displays one line of data stored in the memory. A printer is automatically activated to print the line of data in response to a carriage return or line feed code, ... | 02/27/1990 |
| 4901248 | Printing device with compressed text data memory A printing device with a data memory efficiently stores character code data and other attribute data in a limited memory region. If a character code of a print data input from the keyboard is a space code, the print data is nullified, and a pitch data cor... | 02/13/1990 |
| 4870434 | Printer for continuous formwith justification control A justification system is provided for use in an electrophotographic printer. The justification system comprises a detector which detects the passage of individual segments of a continuous form which are being fed at a predetermined rate. A counter counts... | 09/26/1989 |
| 4823288 | Document processor A document processor having a keyboard, a displaying apparatus for displaying inputted characters and symbols on a display and a control device for controlling the displaying apparatus, there is provided an improvement that permits the moving of an inputt... | 04/18/1989 |
| 4789147 | System and method for selective assembly and imaging of books A system and method for assembling and binding books and for printing an address or a personalized message in accordance with coded information. The system includes a main control with a data processor and a memory for coded address and message informatio... | 12/06/1988 |
| 4783760 | Word processing text justification method A method for performing margin justification in a word processing system by expanding the separation between words and between characters within words. Justifying lines of text by use of this method results in lines of text with an aesthetically pleasing ... | 11/08/1988 |
| 4737922 | Text processing apparatus Data output apparatus registers special format data added to specific character data together therewith in a registered word memory. When sentence data is read out from a sentence memory, the character data included in the sentence data and coinciding wit... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4710886 | Table driven print formatting A table driven print formatting system that accepts a text data stream including individual text commands and produces a printable data stream including individual print commands. The formatting system uses the text data in combination with printer status... | 12/01/1987 |
| 4695849 | Recording apparatus There is described a printer with improved synchronization, particularly in case a printer unit is separate from a control unit, by releasing clock signals from the control unit to the printer unit.... | 09/22/1987 |
| 4689764 | Method and apparatus for formatting a line of text containing a complex character prior to text justification A word or text processing system has a bidirectional printer with formatting capability. A line of text is printed in one direction, and the printer is backspaced to form complex characters by adding overstrikes, such as underlining or accent marks. The f... | 08/25/1987 |
| 4648047 | Interactive operator selection of alternative implementations of printer functions A word processing program is configured to produce a series of examples, for operator examination, of alternative implementations of certain printer functions. By observing the printer performance and physical appearance during the printing of these examp... | 03/03/1987 |
| 4573138 | Justifying with printer level data stream which accommodates footers and headers In order to avoid the problem of the last line of the body text not being justified when it is not the end of a paragraph but is followed by a footer, a converter/processor (13) is provided to modify the print data stream produced by another converter/pro... | 02/25/1986 |
| 4556332 | Electronic typewriter including right margin adjusting means When a number of input key data sequentially stored in a first line buffer memory from a keyboard coincide with the contents of a right margin memory in a RAM, the line data up to the word immediately preceding the word reaching a preset right margin is s... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4523294 | Character spaced justification method and apparatus Method and apparatus for performing true right justification applicable to character printers utilizing variable character spacing. The method of the present invention may be applied to any printer that is capable of variable character pitch settings in r... | 06/11/1985 |
| 4484826 | Automatic intertext column spacing In a column layout operation in an interactive word processing system, the unoccupied character escapement along a column example line is automatically evenly distributed by the insertion of an appropriate number of space characters responsive to the stro... | 11/27/1984 |
| 4464069 | Printing apparatus display device for simultaneously displaying complete words A display device is capable of showing an entire sentence stored in a memory with a limited number of key operations and without interruption of the spelling of each word. The display device is provided with a memory for storing a sentence composed of plu... | 08/07/1984 |
| 4462701 | Printing system wherein justification determination is shared between a host processor and a printer In a printing system comprising a printer controlled by a host processor (11), a system of justification is provided wherein the determination of justification parameters is shared by the host processor (11) and the printer formatting processor (12). Just... | 07/31/1984 |
| 4457638 | Automatic centering of text column entries A method for the automatic center tab insertion within a column example line comprising the steps of an operator cursor move to a column margin to define an end position; and responsive to a function key stroke, the machine steps of concurrently moving th... | 07/03/1984 |
| 4397572 | Justification of overstruck text Overstruck text is justified by distributing the white space residue at the end of the unjustified line among the interword spaces for justification. The amount of the residue distributed is used to determine a number of overstrike characters which will o... | 08/09/1983 |
| 4298290 | System and printer justification system A system for first justifying a text line according to a system minimum escapement unit, and then rejustifying the line according to a minimum escapement unit for a printer which is to be utilized in printing the line. The first justification of the line ... | 11/03/1981 |
| 4278359 | Control circuit for use with a dot matrix printer A control circuit for use in conjunction with dot matrix printers which includes a command word gate which is connected to a data source to receive data signals, the command word gate generating a control circuit enabling signal in response to reception o... | 07/14/1981 |
| 4225249 | Variable character spacing matrix for proportional spacing printing systems The aesthetic characteristics of adjacent characters are used to enhance the quality of output in a proportional spacing printer and to provide right margin justification for composing. Spacing between characters is determined on the basis of the characte... | 09/30/1980 |
| 4207612 | Electronic typographical display device with justification feature An electronic video display of alpha-numeric characters such as words and numbers, in which a justified display is provided on the video screen. The display is generated by sequentially reading characters from a circulating memory corresponding to a displ... | 06/10/1980 |
| 4194197 | Automatic centering of character strings In a word processor a string of characters entered serially via a keyboard into a plurality of positions are centered about a particular point on a line of a record medium by providing a storage medium having a plurality of addressed cells which are seria... | 03/18/1980 |
| 4153940 | Electronic typographic apparatus An electronic typographic apparatus includes a multiline display. Coded typographic data for characters of various widths is stored in a character memory, the dot format for the display of characters in different scan lines being produced upon application... | 05/08/1979 |
| 4054948 | Proportional spacing and electronic typographic apparatus An electronic typographic apparatus includes a multiline display, the top of the display being justified and the lower line constituting a data entry line. Coded typographic data is stored in a character memory, the dot format for the display of character... | 10/18/1977 |
| 4005772 | Automatic justifying typewriter having pitch changing and line spacing apparatus Automatic justifying typewriter includes incremental drive means operatively coupled to a printer for effecting controlled horizontal and vertical movement between a printout sheet and the character printing means. The operation of the printer and the dri... | 02/01/1977 |
| 3952852 | Column format control system A system for printing a plurality of sequentially stored text columns in a side-by-side format. Corresponding lines from each column are printed out on a print line in operator defined locations. After a line from one of the columns is printed on a print ... | 04/27/1976 |
