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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7871215 | Reconfigurable mailing machine for printing and opening mailpieces A mailing machine for processing mailpiece envelopes, wherein a print station thereof is reconfigurable to process envelopes in two operating modes. The reconfigurable print station includes a displacement device having an integrated cutting mechanism to perform bot... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7654761 | Photofinishing system having media roll slitter A photofinishing system is provided having a printer and a slitter which has a plurality of slitting blades mounted on rotatable shafts and a rotatable, selectively positional turret supporting the rotatable shafts. The printer is arranged to receive, and effect pri... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7556446 | Slitting mechanism for roll media printer A slitting mechanism for a roll media printer is provided. The slitting mechanism has a rotatable carousel of rotatable slitting shafts which extend across the width of a media web arranged to pass the slitting shafts along a path. Each slitting shaft has at least o... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7424852 | Universal warning stripe slitting machine A slitting machine includes a stand for supporting a web which is slit into multiple ribbons by a plurality of blades, with the ribbons being wound on corresponding cores supported on an arbor. A common ink roller is mounted across the feedpath of the web and has a ... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7396173 | Perforation forming mechanism for use in an imaging apparatus An apparatus includes a mid-frame for supporting a back side of a sheet of media. A carrier system is configured to transport a carriage in a reciprocating manner with respect to the mid-frame. The carriage includes a bay. A perforation cartridge is configured to be... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7354211 | Perforation forming mechanism for use in an imaging apparatus An apparatus for perforating a sheet of print media having a front side and a back side includes a printhead carriage for carrying a printhead. A perforator carriage carries a perforation forming mechanism. An isolation damper having elastic, vibration absorbing, ch... | 04/08/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7311041 | Printing device, printing system and printing method A printing device contains a printing medium supporting member having a supporting face for supporting a printing medium; a screen plate fitting detachably onto said supporting face in a state where the printing medium is sandwiched between said screen plate and sai... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7285139 | Battery constructed with indexing conveyor system and continuous terminal chain A method of constructing a battery using a control unit to cause battery components to be drawn through an automated conveyor system and between indexed positions on the conveyor system is provided. Positive terminals for a battery are attached to a first carrier st... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7261477 | Method of on-demand printing A method of producing on-demand wallpaper for sale to a consumer, the method including the steps of: providing a printing system for producing wallpaper comprising: at least one media cartridge containing a blank media web; a print... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7261482 | Photofinishing system with slitting mechanism A photofinishing system comprising a processor, a printer, means for feeding print media to the printer from a roll of the print media, and slitter means located in series with the printer; the processor being arranged to generate a drive signal that is representati... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7217051 | Slitter module with optional cutter A slitting mechanism has one or more slitting shafts between rotating brackets. Each shaft has one or more slitting disks arranged along its length. Each disk has a cutting edge and the slitting mechanism can either enter or not enter a path followed by a web of med... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7204654 | Perforation forming mechanism for use in an imaging apparatus An apparatus for perforating a sheet of media includes a perforation forming mechanism including at least one perforation device. The perforation forming mechanism is configured to drive the perforation device through the sheet of media to extend through the sheet o... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7186042 | Wallpaper printer A printer is disclosed for producing rolls of wallpaper. The printer has a frame in which is located a media path which extends from a media loading area to a winding area. A printhead located across the media path. One or more input devices are used for capturing o... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7178458 | Method of making transfer printed webbing A method of economically dye transfer printing small batches of webbing with custom designs includes printing N longitudinally adjacent identical design strips of approximate length L/N with a desired custom design. The design is printed on continuous roll paper wit... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7163287 | Combined cutter and slitter module for a printer A combined cutter and slitter module for a wallpaper printer, the combined cutter and slitter module comprising: at least two end plates, a media web able to pass between the at least two end plates; at least two slitter rollers rotatably held between the at least t... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7159514 | Printing machines comprising several printing groups A printing machine is comprised of several printing groups, at least one dryer and at least one folding apparatus. At least two of the printing groups are arranged side by side in the axial direction of the cylinders in the printing groups. A longitudinal direction ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7029111 | Unit for the continuous production of printed textile strips, in particular printed label strips The invention relates to a unit for the continuous production of printed textile strips, in particular, printed label strips, comprising a supply station (2) for a textile web (4), a printing station (8) for printing the textile web and a fixing... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6959165 | High print rate merging and finishing system for printing A system for printing media includes a plurality of marking engines for outputting printed media in a stream, a media path system operable to transport the printed media from the marking engines to one or more finishing stations such that the streams are merged and ... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6908243 | Separable cutting mechanism for printer A separable cutting mechanism for a printer comprises: a printing device with rollers used for mounting on a rail of the printer to move transversely; a cutting-knife unit with a carrier having rollers thereon to mount the cutting-knife unit on the rail of the print... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6848847 | Printer unit and printing apparatus incorporating the same A paper feeding roller rotates to feed the continuous paper along a paper path. A print head performs printing on the continuous paper. The print head has a first side opposing to the paper path and a second side opposite to the first side. A cutter mechanism is ove... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6821038 | Newspaper producing method A newspaper producing method can produce a plurality kinds of newspapers different in page numbers and colors by using a single printing unit. This method includes a plurality of printing cycles, each of which produces a plurality of lateral printed rows on each sid... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6802663 | Media cutter and slicer mechanism for a printer A printer for creating specialty-sized prints where media is advanced through the printer along a media advancement path, the printer including a housing, a printing mechanism disposed in the housing and configured to place a desired print on the media, a cutter mec... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6739777 | Printer and roll-shaped printing medium therefor A printer that uses a roll-shaped printing medium comprising a printing surface on which images are printed, a releasably adhered printing portion, and a release portion holding the adhered printing portion includes a conveying device conveying the printing medium w... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6733197 | Image recording apparatus An image recording apparatus records an image by adhering ink droplets ejected from a recording head to a long recording material. A solvent in the ink droplets is removed by a heating and drying section, and a transparent sheet material is laminated onto an image r... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6705785 | Apparatus for removing perforated side edge guide strips from printer paper A guide strip removal system includes a pair of guide strip removal devices positioned on opposite sides of a printer outlet where a continuous sheet of paper is discharged. The guide strip removal devices each include a pair of plate members secured together in a s... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6572291 | Print media handling system and printer having the same A print media handling system for feeding print media into a media inlet of a printer is disclosed. The print media handling system includes a media feeder for feeding print media along a media path towards the media inlet. At least one trimming element i... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6554511 | Media cutter and slicer mechanism for a printer A printer for creating specialty-sized prints includes a printing mechanism, a cutter mechanism and a slicing mechanism. A media web or sheet is fed into the printer and is advanced by a media advancement mechanism in a media advancement direction. The cu... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6402132 | Method of folding demand-printed webs into signatures for gathering in rotary gathering/binding machines and signatures produced thereby A method for folding demand printed webs into signatures for gathering by rotary gathering and binding machines, as well as the signatures produced thereby, are disclosed. The method involves the steps of digitally printing pages onto a moving web of mate... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6363851 | Process for producing folded, bound printed products, and the printed product produced A folded, bound printed product comprising a plurality of printed subproducts is produced in that an initial product is printed sequentially in such a manner as to produce a series of printed subproducts which are to be arranged one after the other, the i... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6250826 | Ink ribbon, cartridge containing ink ribbon, and method of discriminating failure location from ink ribbon base film This invention relates to an ink ribbon, a cartridge containing the ink ribbon and a method of discriminating a failure location from an ink ribbon base film when the failure occurs on the ink ribbon. The ink ribbon is a sublimation-type ink ribbon manufa... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6129468 | Sheet processing machine Printed sheets are fed into a sheet processing machine where they are separated into partial sheets by being cut longitudinally. The partial sheets are separated laterally from each other by gripper components. Each of the partial sheets can have its lead... | 10/10/2000 |
| 5846005 | Label printer with cutter attachment A label printer and cutter combination will print a number of labels on a large sheet that is fed from a sheet tray coupled to the printer. The labels are oriented orthogonally along X-Y axes on the sheet, and once all the labels on the sheet have been pr... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5791540 | Device for removal of guide strips for computer printout paper The guide strip separation device employs a base plate, such that the base plate includes a bottom surface having mounted onto a top surface thereof a row of spaced registration lugs that are received within the apertures of the guide strips to be removed... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5718528 | Cutting mechanism A cutting mechanism for a printing apparatus is described. The cutting mechanism is particularly suitable for tape printers. In the cutting mechanism, one of a cutting blade and an anvil is mounted for rolling motion with respect to the other so that as t... | 02/17/1998 |
| 5647277 | Skip-scorer, skip-perforator apparatus for use with printing press systems Attachments for use with existing cylinders or shafts in printing press equipment. The attachments are used to mount a scoring blade, a perforating blade or an anvil to the cylinder or shaft. The blade or the anvil is separably mounted to the attachment a... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5634581 | Computer paper edge strip remover Devices and associated methods for removing scored edge strips from computer printout sheets. A base member of one device carries an open ended, outwardly opening, channel through which the edge strips and sheets are pulled together to separate the strips... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5516221 | Quick-attaching edge trimmer for pin-feed paper systems A paper edge trimmer for a printer using pin-feed paper with holed edges has a edge trimmer body that fits on a support member in close proximity to a feed roller. In several embodiments, the body has two opposing portions joined by an integral hinge and ... | 05/14/1996 |
| 5469788 | Paper train inlet in a longitudinal fold gate A paper train inlet in a longitudinal fold gate utilizes an upstream paper guide cylinder and a downstream paper guide cylinder, which is situated adjacent to the gate, to guide superimposed paper webs to the longitudinal fold gate. At least one traction ... | 11/28/1995 |
| 5368404 | Printer adaptable apparatus for cutting perforated paper A paper trimmer for separating perforated paper, such as the perforated end region of computer paper, as such paper passes along a printer. Movable blade means forming a part of the paper trimmer remain in alignment with the perforations as the paper is m... | 11/29/1994 |
