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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8177442 | Digital printing machine and platen assembly for printing on multiple garment portions A digital printing machine and a platen assembly therefore for printing on multiple garment portions, the platen assembly comprising a base member configured for operation with a printing machine, and multiple garment support members that are attached to the base me... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8057115 | Media carrier A system having a disc carrier determines a location of the disc carrier based upon first and second specular signals from an optical sensing element, the first specular signal occurring when the incident light is not received within the opening and impinges a first... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7367729 | Printer within a computer keyboard A printer is disposed within a housing of a keyboard. The keyboard housing has an upper side bearing a plurality of keypads arranged to interact with a keyboard circuit board located within the housing. A print media entry slot formed through a first side of the hou... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7360225 | Disc holding mechanism There is provided a disc holding mechanism capable of easily loading and unloading optical discs having different shapes on a disc tray, in which an optical disc is securely fixed and held on the disc tray and the load applied to the disc when it is loaded and unloa... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7311367 | Apparatus and methods for sensing and clamping discs Apparatus and methods are provided. At least one clamping finger of a movable tray of a compact disc printer pushes against an outer periphery of a compact disc disposed on a surface of the tray to clamp the compact disc between the clamping finger and a pair of stu... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7252447 | Printing apparatus When a thermal head prints on a print tape with a tape cassette retained in a receiving section of a main body, the print tape undergone printing is cut by a stationary blade and a movable blade of a cutting mechanism, and when the thermal head performs printing on ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7237857 | Image forming apparatus capable of printing disc and disc-printing unit for the image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus that is capable of printing a disc and includes a disc-printing unit. The image forming apparatus includes a carrier having a print head, wherein the carrier is reciprocatingly set in a body of the image forming apparatus, a driving motor ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7175354 | Inkjet printing device There is provided an inkjet printing device, which is provided with a holding unit that is used to hold a substrate to be subjected to printing operation, and an inkjet head that ejects ink onto the substrate held by the holding unit. The holding unit is movable bet... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7137750 | Recording apparatus There are provided a suction unit which sucks a recording medium, and a unit which changes sucking force of the suction unit according to the property of the recording medium. Hereby, since the sucking force of the suction unit can be set according to a state of the... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7101096 | Tray for transferring recording media, and recording apparatus A transferring tray for a printing apparatus for printing on one major surface of a recording media having disc shape, wherein the printing apparatus includes, a carriage having a printing head, reciprocating in a main scanning direction, a transferring unit transfe... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7101097 | Apparatus and method for pad printing The present invention includes apparatus and method for image transfer onto one of a plurality of a pad medium pages while the pages are aggregated together. A preferred embodiment for a printer includes a housing; a print engine, within the housing, for transferrin... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7048354 | Ink jet recording apparatus Even if a recording medium is interfered with an opposed surface of a carriage and/or a recording head due to the curl of the recording medium, damage of the recording medium and the recording head is prevented by avoiding collision between an edge of the recording ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7043157 | Index prints for photofinishing services Improved index prints for photofinishing services are provided where the imagettes are grouped by event or subject matter. Permanently attached index print labels incorporating these and other features are provided for digital still image storage devices are also pr... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6971806 | Apparatus, method, and computer program product for pad transfer The present invention includes apparatus and method for image transfer onto one of a plurality of a pad medium pages while the pages are aggregated together. A preferred embodiment for a printer includes a housing; a print engine, within the housing, for transferrin... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6923436 | Process for the manufacture of sets of printed pages for the preparation of books, and set of printed pages manufactured by that process The process is based on printing, in an electronic printing machine, the various bodies of text of the pages with symmetrical distribution with respect to the center of symmetry of the sheet being printed and likewise symmetrically with respect to one or both axes o... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6908190 | Platen device for holding workpiece in ink-jet printer A platen device for holding a workpiece in an ink-jet printer operable to perform a printing operation on a printing surface of the workpiece, said platen device being movable into a printing area in which a printing head is operated to deliver an ink onto said prin... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6902161 | Sheet feeder avoiding sheet sag An entrance guide for externally fed sheet (4) to printer (1) is configured to bow the sheets. In one embodiment guides (5a, 5aa) within slot 7 have upper and lower configurations which force sheet into a bow. In one ... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6893176 | Label printer for optical disk such as CD A label printer suitable for label printing of a name card type optical disk as well as a 12 cm-standard complete round disk, wherein a 12 cm-diameter complete round disk loading recessed portion 3 is provided in a disk transferring tray 2 allowed to b... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6834949 | Device for simultaneously holding by suction and transporting a sheet A device for holding a sheetlike article on a movable underlying surface for transporting the sheetlike article in at least one direction selected from the group consisting of a direction into and a direction out of an operating station having a printing unit, inclu... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6767148 | Optical disk adapter for optical disk label printers A disk adapter A is equipped with first and second adapter halves 1 and 2 to be detachably disposed in a disk-placing dented portion 54 provided in a disk tray 53 of a label printer 51. One of the adapter halves 1 and 2 | 07/27/2004 |
| 6709175 | Thermal printer method of operation for compact disks and other media A thermal transfer printer having a print head and a media support platform in the form of a removable tray that is displaced relative to the print head, the media support platform having a rigid support surface for a media item having a non-rectangular configuratio... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6698947 | Substrate and carrier and method of forming same The present invention is directed to a carrier for use with a printer that can support irregularly shaped substrates having a top surface. The carrier includes first and second planar members. The first planar member has top and bottom surfaces, a thickne... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6312174 | Thermal printer for compact disks A thermal transfer printer having a print head and a media support platform that is displaced relative to the print head, the media support platform having a rigid support surface for a media item having a non-rectangular configuration such as a compact d... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6293670 | Ink jet recording apparatus An ink jet recording method forms an ink jet image on a recording medium by serially moving an ink jet recording head having a plurality of ink discharge ports arranged in an array along a conveyance direction of the recording medium. The method includes ... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6280104 | Configuration for depositing recording media A configuration for depositing media, particularly envelopes, transported in a franking and/or addressing machine standing on edge and butting against an inclined guide plate. The configuration is disposed downstream of the franking machine and includes a... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6145980 | Multiple-zone inkjet printer An inkjet printer includes a ball roller assembly for driving a paper-supporting platen along the width and length of the paper supported by the platen. A stepper motor activates the ball roller assemblies in response to drive signals from a motor driver.... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6099175 | Method and apparatus for printing text on a booklet-like article The invention relates to a process for printing text on a sheet of a booklet-like article in a text-printing station, in the case of which the booklet-like article is arranged in a swung-open state in a cassette (10) and fed to the text-printing station. ... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6092892 | Ink jet recording apparatus An ink jet recording apparatus having an image recording area for performing image recording onto a recording medium includes a head holding portion for holding an ink jet recording head, a platen, and a recording medium exhausting device. The platen has ... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6036380 | Printer having a plastic platen An inkjet printer includes a plastic platen and a structural member extending upward from the base of the printer. The printing surface is supported by the upper surface of the structural member. This surface is held flat to within very tight tolerances. ... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5975778 | Recording apparatus having a recording material confining member A recording apparatus for effecting recording by a recording device carried on a carriage movable along a recording material includes a platen for supporting the recording material in a recording region in which the recording device effects the recording ... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5797688 | Thermal dye transfer printing of compact disc labels including a circular recessed carrier Apparatus for printing labels onto circular discs of predetermined diameter includes a linear printhead having a length equal to at least the diameter of the discs to be printed. A carrier has a planar surface with a circular recess into which a compact d... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5454648 | Printer paper guide A paper guide includes a wing that extends over a respective lateral edge of the print media and a dimple formed on a bottom side of the wing that contacts the print media between the respective lateral edge and an edge of the maximum printable area. The ... | 10/03/1995 |
| 5370465 | Method and apparatus for printing traffic citations A method and apparatus for printing traffic citations or the like. An impact printer is supplied which prints with a print head onto an approximately 3.25" wide paper strips and senses the movement of the paper through the printer. A plate is provided to ... | 12/06/1994 |
| 5286123 | Paper guide mechanism for serial printer A paper guide mechanism for a serial printer wherein print paper can be prevented from being soiled by contact thereof with an ink ribbon or an ink ribbon guide plate while also leaping out of the ink ribbon through a printing hole of the ink ribbon guide... | 02/15/1994 |
| 5161905 | Apparatus for recording and/or reading information A head (9 or 10) records information on or reads information from a document (29) transportable along a transport path (3). A guide slide (17) guides the document (29) along the transport path (3). The guide slide is displaceable into and above the intera... | 11/10/1992 |
| 5017028 | Substrate clamping apparatus for a thermal printer Flat bed thermal printing apparatus adapted to print information on to an elongate substrate, or on to products disposed upon the substrate, at a printing area within the apparatus, the said substrate being movable through the apparatus in a step by step ... | 05/21/1991 |
| 4930912 | Apparatus for movably supporting an object to be marked Apparatus for movably supporting an object to be marked which includes a fixed member with a table assembly movable reciprocally on the fixed member. The object to be marked is secured to a surface of the table. A marking device is supported on a U-shaped... | 06/05/1990 |
| 4828406 | Portable ticket issuing device A portable device for storing information as well as printing and dispensing multiple part tickets, such as traffic or parking violations tickets, includes a manually operable arrangement, for selecting and feeding a ticket from a stacked source of ticket... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4815868 | Apparatus for movably supporting an object to be marked Apparatus for movably supporting an object to be marked comprising a table assembly supported for linear reciprocating movement on a fixed platform. A generally U-shaped support member mounts a marking device for linear movement relative to the support me... | 03/28/1989 |
| 4744296 | Imprinter apparatus with document activated document and card carrier A document activated imprinter apparatus for imprinting characters from a credit card comprising a housing with entrance and exit slots, imprinting means, a carrier member with a flat upwardly facing surface, receiving and positioning means, guiding and r... | 05/17/1988 |
