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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8118505 | Label printer with a label peeling mechanism and a control method for the same A label printing apparatus having a label peeling mechanism determines the appropriate time to run a process for setting the paper. Paper having a plurality of labels continuously affixed to a web liner is loaded inside the label printing apparatus when a main cover... | 02/21/2012 |
| 7922409 | Printer and printer control method A printer which prints to a roll paper medium under the control of the printer and to a printer control method for maintaining consistently in high quality printing even at the end of a roll paper print medium. The printer conveys roll paper 11 through a pape... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7123444 | Tape cassette having an optical signal receiver and a memory for storing information optically transmitted into the cassette A tape cassette has a housing which contains at least one magnetic tape wound on a tape hub, and a semiconductor memory which contains memory data. The tape cassette also includes at least an optical transmitter, and a circuit which has access to the memory contents... | 10/17/2006 |
| 6960037 | Printer and feeding control method An ink jet head is fed in a main-scan direction to record one line on a recording paper. Thereafter, the recording paper is fed in a sub-scan direction for one line. A corrected feeding amount A is calculated by adding a correction value C1 to a basic feeding... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6799507 | Web printers A web printer has a buffer for adjusting the traveling position of the web under its slack status, a tension assigning unit for assigning fixed tension to the web delivered from the buffer, a device for detecting the traveling position of the web delivered from the ... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6592276 | Printer for forming an image on a transported web A printer capable of stably transporting a web at high speed and with a high accuracy has a printing unit (10) for forming images on a web (W); a yet-to-be-printed web control means (2, 3, 5) for controlling the traveling position and tension of the web a... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6428224 | Error mapping technique for a printer The present invention relates to a method and system for accurately indexing print receiving media of various types. A media indexing system is provided that includes a roller capable of indexing a print receiving medium in response to an indexing operati... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6305860 | Squeezing apparatus of a liquid electrophotographic printer A squeezing apparatus of a liquid electrophotographic printer includes a squeezing roller for squeezing out and removing the carrier from a developer which is applied on a photosensitive belt by its passive-rotational movement while being pressed into tig... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6106174 | Printing machine for plastic tile with feeding correction device A printing machine for plastic tile with a feeding correction device comprises a central electric sensing eye disposed on a first layer of the plastic tile for detecting a position of the tile. The first layer further has a length-sensing line detected by... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6068419 | Label printer A base sheet path for peeled issue (29) for guiding a base sheet (7) in a direction different from a label issue port (22) after passing a peeling section (12) following the printing by a printing section (18) and a base sheet path for continuous issue (3... | 05/30/2000 |
| 5980138 | Label printer having mode sensor A base sheet path for peeled issue for guiding a base sheet in a direction different from a label issue port after passing a peeling section following the printing by a printing section and a base sheet path for continuous issue for guiding the base sheet... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5980139 | Method of speed control for imaging system including printers with intelligent options A method of controlling a speed of a print medium through a printer includes the step of providing a print medium transport assembly with a range of print medium transport speeds between a minimum print medium transport speed and a maximum print medium tr... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5929894 | Continuous form printer In a continuous form printer, a passage of the leading edge of the continuous form sheet is detected by a top sensor located along a feeding path thereof. A system determines whether the detection of the leading edge by the top sensor is correct, by compa... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5816721 | Drive system for a printing apparatus having text size based feed speed control The present invention relates to a label printing method and apparatus which includes a housing providing a zone for receiving printing tape on which an image is to be printed, a data input device for inputting information defining the image to be printed... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5779378 | Continuous form printer A printer includes a tractor unit for feeding continuous form paper, encoders driven in synchronization with a tractor belt, and detecting sensors for detecting rotation of the encoders to generate feed pulses at a standard interval. The printer further i... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5685655 | Security system for unattended printing mechanism A security system for an unattended printing mechanism, such as that found in an automatic teller machine. The security system has a programmable microprocessor which sends data to a journal printer and actuates a journal motor that controls the rotation ... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5564845 | Continuous form printer having multiple feed sensors and method A continuous form printer is provided with two rotary encoders, corresponding to different paper feed intervals, and mounted coaxially on a drive shaft. The drive shaft drives a tractor for feeding the paper. The rotary encoders are read by photo-interrup... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5524996 | Linerless label printing apparatus A label printer apparatus is arranged to produce printed labels from a continuing strip of adhesive-backed, linerless label material. By operation of a standard printer roller, the apparatus advances a strip of linerless material along a path from a roll ... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5511891 | Tape printing machine with IR sensing A tape is controlled in a printing machine by advancing a length of tape through a light pathway. Transmittance of the light through the tape is measured and values are stored associated with transmittances through the tape. The tape is advanced to a star... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5493318 | Continuous form positioning device with control of rollers in response to a tip sensor A device for positioning a tip portion of a continuous form provided in a laser printer when the continuous form is set in the laser printer. The device includes a pair of fixing rollers provided at a position separated by a predetermined interval from a ... | 02/20/1996 |
| 5454653 | Printing device having record medium feed means A printing device which comprises a thermal head for printing a dot pattern image, a driving mechanism for moving a tape which serves as a recording medium, and a DC motor, is disclosed. Printing by the thermal head is inhibited while the DC motor is acce... | 10/03/1995 |
| 5410336 | Recording method and apparatus for controlling ink sheet conveyance in accordance with an interval between recording operations In a heat transfer recording apparatus, ink of an ink sheet is transferred to a recording medium to record images on the recording medium. The apparatus includes conveying motors for the ink sheet and recording medium, and a timer for counting a recording... | 04/25/1995 |
| 5358351 | Printing apparatus and printing tape cassette used therefor A printing apparatus includes a main body in which a sheet-like printing medium or a tape-like printing medium contained in a cassette can be mounted, a printing head capable of printing an image either on the sheet-like printing medium or the tape-like p... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5264864 | Chart recorder A chart recorder (10) is disclosed having an automatic paper loading system, an automatic tensioning system and an "odometer" system for determining the amount of paper moved through the chart recorder. The chart recorder (10) includes a print roller (34)... | 11/23/1993 |
| 5216444 | Apparatus for controlling reference position of paper in a multiple-time recorder and control method thereof In a multiple-time recorder in which different colored recordings are superimposed on a single sheet to draw a multi-colored drawing, the reference position of the recording paper must remain at a same point for each-time drawing of a single color. At an ... | 06/01/1993 |
| 5209589 | Apparatus and method for minimizing printer scan error In a printer assembly including a printhead which moves in a first direction for printing on a sheet of paper, roller means having an outer cylindrical periphery that engages the sheet of paper at successive tangent points on the periphery for moving the ... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5188470 | Printer control system for a sheet cutter A printer having a cutter 6 including: program storage 2 for storing printer control programs such as a data edition program, a printing control program and a cutter control program, where the program storage has a random access memory for storing the pre... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5177422 | Recording control system for a recording apparatus The present invention relates to control of motor and strobe pulses in a printer which feeds a paper by a stepping motor and prints data by strobe pulses. A uniform record line density is attained by non-linearly changing currents and interval of phase ex... | 01/05/1993 |
| 5073861 | Method of and apparatus for preventing overheating of heating element When a first timer, after started, counts a prescribed time interval, and becomes time-out, it is judged whether or not the total of a heat release value exceeds a first prescribed one, and if it does not exceed that value, then the first timer is restart... | 12/17/1991 |
| 5019872 | Continuous-form electrophotographic printer A preferred embodiment of this continuous-form electrophotographic printer as illustrated in the drawings having an image transfer device 38 positioned at the image transfer station for placing images on individual sheets 14 of a continuous-form 12. Downs... | 05/28/1991 |
| 4988221 | Specific data input order for continuous strips of tags including line spacing amount A printing device for a continuous strip of tags prints a plurality of lines on each of the tags. The device allows free selection and easy changing of line spacing. The device for a continuous strip of tags has a feed mechanism for feeding the strip of t... | 01/29/1991 |
| 4968165 | Sheet feed control device and method in a printer with a tear bar In a printer of the kind which uses a continuous form print sheet having a plural pages each defined by perforated score lines formed in the widthwise direction of the sheet, a sheet feed control device is provided for controlling a sheet feed means for f... | 11/06/1990 |
| 4960336 | Apparatus and method for calibrating printing at a specified distance from a document edge A method for calibrating a printer to print data beginning at a specified distance from the reference edge of a document. Several test documents are moved through a print station and a test symbol is printed on each of them with a preselected set of heati... | 10/02/1990 |
| 4957381 | Paper feeding and cutting control device in a recording apparatus A paper feeding control device for use in conjunction with a recording apparatus controls the feeding of a web of paper having in succession a plurality of equi-length segmental sheets each defining one page and being adapted to be cut along a transversal... | 09/18/1990 |
| 4925325 | Recording paper transporting device in a recording apparatus A printer of the type in which printing is performed in response to data supplied from a host computer and the printer is selectively rendered in an on-line mode enabling to receive the data from the host computer and in an off-line mode disabling to rece... | 05/15/1990 |
| 4915525 | Slip issuing apparatus The slip issuing apparatus comprises a support or a container for supporting or containing plural kinds of slips having different slip widths, separately; a printing device having a printing head for determining each printing range of the printing head ac... | 04/10/1990 |
| 4904330 | Hand-held labeler having improved web position sensing and print head control A hand-held labeler, particularly a labeler employing a thermographic print head, utilizes improved control circuitry for accurately sensing the position of the web and controlling the operation of the print head in order accurately to control the positio... | 02/27/1990 |
| 4900174 | System for providing tickets with or without a stub The invention provides a ticket issuing system suitable for issuing tickets with or without a stub for use in payment for parking. The ticket issuing system includes a roll (4) of paper having messages pre-printed thereon, a thermal print head (13), a mot... | 02/13/1990 |
| 4871272 | Method and device for restarting typewriters and printers with stepping motor In a method for the operation of a typewriter, printer or the like with a stepping motor for the paper feed and a basic step inputting device, to accomplish feeding of the paper by a fraction of a line spacing, the feeding position set at the time of cutt... | 10/03/1989 |
| 4794404 | Thermal transfer printer A thermal transfer printing apparatus comprises a recording sheet conveying passageway of a chuckless type which does not require a chuck mechanism for affixing a recording sheet to a platen roller. The recording sheet conveying passageway is constituted ... | 12/27/1988 |
