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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7270493 | Printer A printer capable of printing with high quality by driving the drive motor according to information about a drive current to be applied to a drive motor of a platen roller to feed the printing medium, each of which has the information. Accordingly, the printer compr... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7059788 | Printer media comprising a bar code A printer and printer media are provided. The printer comprises a media support for receiving a print media. The media support includes a bar code reader. The media comprises a printable media and a bar code disposed on the media. ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 6763220 | Printing system and method for printing on both surfaces of web A second printing unit includes a mark detection means for detecting a positioning mark that a first printing unit has formed on a front surface of a web. A control means controls web-transport speed in the second printing unit so that a time difference between a ge... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6550991 | Paper tray adjustment page A tray alignment calibration page and method and apparatus using the page are provided. The page has graduated scales along horizontal and vertical edges, such that the scale values are enterable into an interface to align an image to be printed centered ... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6471424 | Printer suitable for printing on a surface other than a printed surface A printer is provided, which comprises a printer body 20 including a paper sheet feeding unit for setting paper sheets therein for printing and a paper sheet discharging unit, and a printer controller 10 of the printer body 20. When setting again paper sh... | 10/29/2002 |
| 5978004 | Label printer with label edge sensor A label printer includes a thermal print head assembly for printing pressure sensitive adhesive-backed labels spaced longitudinally on a web. The print head assembly includes a row of heater elements aligned transversely of the web path and movable toward... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5873665 | Printer having a clamping mechanism on the platen roller A printer for printing characters and images on recording paper comprising: a paper cassette for storing the recording paper; a platen roller around which the recorrding paper is wound at the time of the transfer of images for printing; a clamping mechani... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5442188 | Strip chart recorder paper attribute detector and monitor A paper attribute detector for use in combination with a strip chart recorder includes a paper web having a plurality of connected pages. Each of the pages has electronically scannable indicia preferably on an unrecorded side of the paper. In the preferre... | 08/15/1995 |
| 5249873 | Method and apparatus for thermal transfer recording and ink paper cassette therefor In a thermal transfer recording system, an ink paper cassette containing an ink paper having ink layers and an ink paper feed bobbin with the ink paper wound therearond, and further containing a take-up bobbin for taking up the ink paper fed from the feed... | 10/05/1993 |
| 5183347 | Apparatus for printing images on booklets An apparatus for printing images on a booklet comprises, first and second paired pinch rollers for conveying pages of the opened booklet to a printing head, located between these paired pinch rollers, a rotatable platen opposed to the printing head and lo... | 02/02/1993 |
| 5078522 | Printer for bar-coded paper A printer having a function of reading a bar code attached on a printing paper. A carrier cover of a sensor carrier unit is disposed against the bar-coded surface of the printing paper as located in the printing position by a positioning means, and the pr... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5076718 | Data card for serial printer A data card for a printer includes a plurality of data areas. Data readable by a sensor can be written in the data areas to control specifications or functions of a serial printer. A standard mark is printed on the data card to provide a reference positio... | 12/31/1991 |
| 5067835 | Printing apparatus A printing apparatus includes a feed cassette detachably loaded in a main body of the printing apparatus for containing cut sheets, a sheet feeder unit for feeding a cut sheet contained in the feed cassette to the main body of printing apparatus, a printi... | 11/26/1991 |
| 5061947 | Microprocessor controlled thermal printer A microprocessor controller thermal printer particularly usable in a hand-held labeler for printing labels on a composite web detects indices on the web and automatically adjusts the distance that the web is advanced based on a measurement of the distance... | 10/29/1991 |
| 5061946 | Microprocessor controlled thermal printer A microprocessor controlled thermal printer particularly usable in a hand-held labeler for printing labels on a composite web detects indices on the web and utilizes the detected indices to position the labels relative to the print head. The printer utili... | 10/29/1991 |
| 4844629 | Electronic labeler with printhead and web sensor combined for concurrent travel, and assemblies of identification devices therefor An electronic labeling machine is disclosed which includes a printing mechanism with a carriage adapted for horizontal travel across assemblies of identification devices to be imprinted. A web sensor is attached to the carriage for concurrent travel there... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4839674 | Recorder-medium registration system In a recorder, at least one set of marks spaced by a predetermined distance in a feed direction of a record paper are recorded on the record paper, the marks are detected by a detector while the record paper is fed, a time interval between detections of t... | 06/13/1989 |
| 4768410 | Coded web and associated web handling and working machine An elongated sheet of web material has a longitudinal row of feeding holes in each side edge portion and a plurality of binary codes longitudinally spaced along one side edge portion; and an associated web handling and working machine has sprockets which ... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4743129 | Passbook printer A passbook printer uses a conveyor belt (16) to urge a passbook (86) towards a raised barrier (40) for the passbook (86) to strike the barrier (40) and then have one edge thereof aligned with the barrier (40) by sliding engagement with the conveyor belt (... | 05/10/1988 |
| 4725156 | Method and structure for properly aligning forms in a printer This invention achieves accurate registration of a web of forms such as preprinted checks in a printer controlled by a computer, without requiring skill on the part of the operator or extra equipment for the printer. The method and apparatus of this inven... | 02/16/1988 |
| 4684276 | Individual sheet feeder device for printer A printer device for the individual feed of pre-printed sheets or tickets through a sheet guide channel to a printer platen of an associated printer comprises at least two sensors. The at least two sensors are connected to the inputs of a control processo... | 08/04/1987 |
| 4552065 | Printing in register on sheets This invention is concerned with the high speed printing of a line of text on a sheet in very accurate registration with an edge of the sheet or another feature (for example an existing print line) on the sheet. The sheet is fed without preregistration on... | 11/12/1985 |
| 4541337 | Process and apparatus for continuously treating a web adapted to pass through a computer printer A flexible deformable blank support such as a strip of paper, is fed and continuously treated or worked on in connection with its passage through a computer printer. The paper can be in the form of a roll or can be folded, and can pass through a finishing... | 09/17/1985 |
| 4531851 | Mark detector for printers In order to control the movement of a label web to be imprinted past the printing head of a thermal printer, or the like, the label web carries optically detectable marks at predetermined intervals therealong. The label web is comprised of label pieces ad... | 07/30/1985 |
| 4527790 | Apparatus and method for separating multiple webs of documents having the capability for orderly shut-down and re-start of operation A document inserter system having an improved control system is disclosed. The system includes a sheet inserter system and one or more web modules for, receiving a web of forms, scanning the forms for information, storing and retransmitting the informatio... | 07/09/1985 |
| 4442774 | Printer with automatic stacker A printing system for printing characters in various fonts and formats onto webs of sheet stock of various sizes includes apparatus for cutting the web into various lengths to accommodate various formats as well as for providing different lengths of tags ... | 04/17/1984 |
| 4255064 | Printing device with paper edge sensing In order to ensure correct registration of printing, a printing device is provided with a transducer arrangement which scans the printing platen to detect one of the edges of the stationary or, in the case of continuous feed stationery, pre-printed markin... | 03/10/1981 |
| 4026405 | Process and apparatus for determining the magnitude of the paper advance commanded in a printing machine In printing data on paper sheets which are connected along lines of perforation, the paper advance relative to the printer is controlled to assure that the proper kind of data is printed in the appropriate area or areas of the sheet or sheets to which suc... | 05/31/1977 |
| 4025025 | Apparatus for scanning a marked web A web of photographic paper having at its rear side at least one longitudinally extending reference line and at least one row of equally spaced marks which is parallel to the reference line. The reference line and the marks are applied below a coat of liq... | 05/24/1977 |
