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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8082495 | Label creating apparatus and program A label creating apparatus includes a print data creating and editing device that creates and edits print data to be printed onto a long tape. The print data creating and editing device includes a storage device that stores a data file, a divided display control dev... | 12/20/2011 |
| 7726893 | Tape printing device and tape cassette When a label tape 36 after the printing on a label 39 has been fed to a tape cutting position, heating elements R1-Rn of a thermal head 9 is situated to face a position slightly on the upstream side of a label front end position (at the d... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7614810 | Printer A printer allowing changes of a paper size and an ink sheet in an intermediate stage of printing is obtained. This printer comprises a paper tray provided in correspondence to each of a plurality of paper sizes, a paper tray detecting portion for detecting the size ... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7604425 | Sheet processing apparatus A controller displays a setting screen of printing contents for a paper band used for sealing the preset number of banknotes on a display unit. Various information items to be printed on the paper band are displayed in different colors or information items indicatin... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7588380 | Label data creating apparatus, label data creating method, and computer program product It is intended to provide a label data creating apparatus, a label data creating method, and a computer program product which can make the production of label tapes faster, and increase efficiency of the production thereof. A CPU of computer equipment performs a tem... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7357585 | Printing tape, tape cartridge provided therewith, and tape printing apparatus A printing tape has a translucent recording-tape layer with a recording surface on a face thereof, and a translucent pseudo-laminating layer adhered to a back of the recording-tape layer. The pseudo-laminating layer has an adhesive-agent layer on a face thereof and ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7344323 | Portable printing system A portable label printing system for printing on a variety of materials is disclosed. A retractable platen roller cooperates with a self-aligning print head in three planes cooperates for proper label printing registration. A display screen allows the user to view p... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7342597 | Radio frequency identification tags on consumable items used in printers and related equipment Improvements relating to identification tags on consumable supply items used in identity document production equipment. The use of identification tags on the consumable supply items allows the document production equipment to recognize the consumable supply items th... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7332887 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a stepping motor that drives a rotor by rotating in accordance with an input of a drive pulse, a drive pulse profile storage portion that stores the drive pulse profiles corresponding to temporal changes of the drive pulse inputte... | 02/19/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7318681 | Label making apparatus A label making apparatus displays a copy print setting screen to make a user input a number of sets or labels to be copied, and determines whether or not a value stored in a total number of sets in a RAM is 1. After the determination, if the total number of sets is ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7318680 | Label printer and printing medium In a label printer, a top cover made of transparent resin is attached to a housing at a rear upper edge to cover a roll sheet holder storage part and to be freely opened and closed. A roll sheet of a roll sheet holder removably mounted in the roll sheet holder stora... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7314321 | Tape printing apparatus, label producing method, data processing method for tape printing apparatus, printing system, label producing method for printing system, program, and storage medium In case where any one of longitudinal direction printing in which an arranging direction of character strings coincides with a longitudinal direction of a tape, and width direction printing in which the arranging direction coincides with a width direction, is select... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7311255 | Magnetic detection device A magnetic detection device has a roller unit to which conveying rollers are attached, a fixing unit that installs the roller unit movably in the direction to contact to or leave away from a magnetic head, and eccentric shafts that are provided rotatably between the... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7303342 | Print control apparatus and print control program A cable label having a desired configuration is provided without forcing a user to do any troublesome work. A character string to be printed on a cable label is memorized in a character string memory section. A print image generating section generates a character st... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7296941 | Tape printer and tape creating method It is intended to provide a tape printer and a tape creating method which can achieve a high degree of accuracy and constant length of printing even when the rotational speed of a DC motor changes due to the increase of a wire-wound resistance value because of the h... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7292364 | Printing apparatus and print control method When print data is stored as index data, a dedicated FIFO memory is interposed between a data processing circuit before index expansion, and an index expansion circuit, and temporarily stores the index data. The stored index data is read out by specifying a portion ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7284920 | Printing device A printing device for printing labels includes: a read-only memory in which are stored a plurality of label data entries, the label data entries having been preset according to an intended use and are unalterable by a user; a user input having character selection ke... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7278797 | Tape printing apparatus and tape cartridge A label to be attached to a linear or bar-shaped object is created by printing on a translucent printing tape and cutting off a printed tape part in a width direction of the printing tape. For creating the label, the printed tape part is divided parallel to its long... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277109 | Thermal transfer printer In a thermal transfer printer, before a thermal head transfers an ink component of a yellow region on a recording paper, the thermal head is preheated up to a transfer temperature and by sublimating a black ink component constituting a mark pattern during preheating... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7264164 | Tape printing system, tape printing method, and tape printing program User can flexibly increase in setting a bar code margin and easily confirm a bar code image relative position. Operability is improved in inputting a character string regarding the bar code. For the margin, a bar code guide giving a target size of a bar code image a... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7256805 | Method of adjusting strobe length in a thermal printer to reduce effects of changes in media transport speed A thermal printing apparatus and a method of controlling a thermal printing apparatus is provided wherein the duration of the strobe pulse utilized to transfer the ink from the carrier to the media is controlled and adjusted by a correction factor. The correction fa... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7249902 | Tape printing apparatus and tape printing method There is provided a tape printing apparatus in which characters to be printed on a recording face of a recording tape layer of a print tape are inputted, and a folding-line position of a pseudo-laminate layer of the print tape is defined. A print-width range on a re... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7251044 | Image printing method and apparatus There are provided an image forming method and apparatus in which character string having one or more characters is registered as a regular character string, regular printing for printing the regular character string is instructed, irrespective of whether or not a c... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7244071 | Printer, and print medium cartridge used for the printer A tape printer (100) capable of, as necessary, installing, therein, a print medium cartridge for storing print medium of different lengths, wherein a cartridge storage area (120) is formed in the tape printer (100) by recessing inward the surfac... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7223030 | Systems and methods for determining physical location of RFID tags on embedded print media A printing system (250) includes a printing subsystem (255) in the form of a printer assembly (14). The printing subsystem (255) includes a printer housing (257) in which a print engine (259) resides and a memory (261... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7195409 | Apparatus, method and program for producing small prints An apparatus, method and program produce small print including character string information in a plurality of languages together with a logo. A language converting function converts an input character string into another language. A multi-language printing function ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7156568 | Tape printing apparatus, method of manufacturing label, program, and memory medium A tape made up of a base tape having a front printing surface and a rear adhesive surface, and a release tape covering the adhesive surface is mounted on a printing apparatus. A plurality of print images are printed on the printing surface in a manner arrayed in a l... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7156566 | Thermal printing and cleaning assembly A thermal printing assembly comprised of a first flexible section and a second flexible section joined to such first flexible section. The first section of such assembly is a thermally sensitive media that contains either a thermal transfer ribbon, a dye sublimation... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7145585 | Line thermal head printer device A line thermal head printer device of which size is made remarkably smaller is provided. A stepping motor (10) rotationally driving a ribbon tape reel is arranged to be fitted to one corner portion of a frame plate (9). A line thermal head (11) ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7121751 | Placing printing elements and mark sensor at proper positions with respect to the cutter member A tape printer, wherein when a label tape (36) is fed to a tape cutting position after the label (39) of the label tape (36) is printed out, the heating elements (R1 to Rn) of a thermal head (9) are disposed so as to be opposed to ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7114865 | Tape printer and tape making method After a numbering character string is input, the start position of the numbering character string to be serially incremented and the end position of the numbering character string to be repeatedly incremented and printed on a print tape are set, and the number of pr... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7110147 | Image processing method and apparatus A decorated character image is formed by arranging at least one decorated character formed by providing a desired character decoration on at least one arbitrary character, on an arbitrary background, with a character color being set to a character portion correspond... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7102668 | Electronic still camera with printer section There is disclosed an electronic still camera with a printer section for printing an image on recording paper on the basis of image data obtained through a camera section of the camera. A paper roll chamber is formed around a lens barrel which holds a taking lens th... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7093919 | Image formation device, process cartridge initializing method, and process cartridge initializing program When a new process cartridge is detected, that new process cartridge is initialized. A flag that indicates initialization status of the new process cartridge is set and stored. When a new process cartridge is detected, the flag is set to indicate non-initialization,... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7090418 | Tape printing apparatus having a tape discharge mechanism and method of discharging a tape A tape printing apparatus including an internal unit having a print mechanism, a cutting mechanism, and a tape discharge mechanism that safely and reliably discharges tapes at a suitable speed to a proximate location relative to an apparatus main body. When printing... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7083345 | Roll label layout and system for proper printing of netstamps A system for assisting a user with the proper printing of postage indicia and other value bearing items onto labels in rolls of labels in a label printer, and a roll for use therewith. The system includes providing a roll bearing pre-printed labels for printing with... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7081971 | System and method for printing on mailpieces using a fixed print head A system for printing markings along the top and bottom of mailpieces, using a print head in a fixed position. The print head receives print instructions either from a print module or an inverted print module and prints one or more first markings onto the mailpiece,... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7070347 | Printer with a pivoting gear mechanism A printer, suitable for use in a hand held printer, having a dual direction drive mechanism for driving ink ribbon in a forward feed direction and a reverse feed direction. The drive mechanism is mounted in a printer body, and includes a stationary gear drive assemb... | 07/04/2006 |
