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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8182164 | Printing apparatus and print setting method A printing apparatus which prints one image by sequentially transferring a set of a plurality of color inks to roll paper from an ink ribbon cyclically coated with the plurality of color inks, the apparatus comprising: an acquisition unit which acquires image data; ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8177444 | Printer and associated ejection assembly An ejection assembly for a printer is provided, the ejection assembly being disposed downstream of a print head in order to receive web from the print head. The ejection assembly can include an ejection roller and a door having a closed configuration and an open con... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8157460 | Roll paper printer having an automatic paper cutter, and related printer control method and control program A printer that uses roll paper as the printing medium and has a manual feed button and an automatic paper cutter detects if the manual feed button was operated. If the manual feed button was operated, the paper is advanced a prescribed length, and the paper is cut b... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8152393 | Printer device with blade driving motor and platen motor provided on a first frame A printer device is disclosed that has a cutter function and a thermal head, and is low profile but is suitable for thick paper. The printer device includes a first module and a second module. The first module includes a turning blade driving motor, a platen roller ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8152394 | Printer with a cutter having a pushing portion for moving the fixed blade away from the movable blade In order to reliably and promptly release bite of a fixed blade and a movable blade with a simple manipulation without being influenced by a state of paper jam of a recording sheet, provided is a printer capable of performing printing on a recording sheet and then c... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8147156 | Tag making and stacking systems and method, tag stackers and stack trays There is disclosed a tag making and stacking system, tag stackers and stack trays. To increase tag making capacity, a wide tag web is slit into completely severed narrow tag webs which are cut apart to form tags which are immediately separated and formed into spaced... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8142088 | Print medium cartridge which has an elastic partition member which increases the capacity of a cut piece collection portion A cartridge that is detachable from a printing apparatus that includes a printing unit that prints onto a print medium and a cutter member that cuts the print medium, the cartridge comprises a print medium containment portion that contains print medium that are cons... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8137017 | Selectively coupling a device to a carriage A printing apparatus that selectively couples a device to a printer carriage is provided. The printing apparatus includes a printer carriage and an intervening mechanism. The printer carriage is movable back and forth to selectively retrieve the device from and retu... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8109684 | Tape printing system with auxiliary cassette containing auxiliary medium for contacting printed tape A tape cassette includes an ink ribbon provided with a base film coated with an ink layer thereon and a film tape provided with a transparent film with an adhesive layer formed on one surface thereof. When an adhesive layer of the film tape and the ink layer of the ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8096718 | Printer selectively having configurations for receipt printer and for ticket printer A printer according to the present invention selectively comprises, a cutting configuration for a receipt printer for printing a receipt and a cutting configuration for a ticket printer for printing a ticket, as a cutting configuration for cutting a printed part of ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8096717 | Feed drive device for printer and printer Provided herein is a feed drive device for a printer including: a feed roller that feeds a print medium in synchronization with drive of a print head; a motor constituting a driving source of the feed roller; a roller reduction gear train that transmits power from t... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8096719 | Continuous personalized plastic card manufacturing system A method for producing personalized cards on a substantially continuous basis. The method includes providing multiple supply rolls of card stock having a thickness of at least about 12 mils. The card stock is corona treated in an in-line corona treating unit to prov... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8075210 | Device for producing tags for patient wristbands, a system for producing tags for patient wristbands, and a print medium A patient wristband tag production apparatus for printing and producing a tag precursor that includes a printing unit, a print medium web, an information acquisition unit, a printing control unit, and a cutter. The print medium web can have a perforation running alo... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8075212 | Tape printing apparatus In the tape printing apparatus 1, in the state that the back cover 11 is not attached to the apparatus body 2, the coil spring member 22 urges the stopper member 15 so as to rotate and the cutter lever 5 becomes inoperable b... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8075211 | Printing system, post-processing device and computer readable medium storing program therefor A printing system includes a printing unit that, after printing information across plural pages, prints print result relevant information about printing of the plural pages on continuous forms paper following the plural pages; a holder unit that receives and holds t... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8070371 | Limiting device for roll printers A limiting device to prevent unwanted removal of paper from a paper or ticket printing and dispensing apparatus for paper roll printers, including paper cutter actuating means, positioned between a ticket dispensing exit and a cutting device to cut paper onto which ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8061915 | Tape processing apparatus Provided herein is a tape processing apparatus having: a tape cutting device which slides a cutter holder having a cutter blade attached therein in a reciprocating sliding directions and cuts a tape by a forward sliding movement thereof; and a tape ejecting device w... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8016502 | Cutter device and recording apparatus A cutter device includes a medium supporting surface that supports a recording medium being transported, and a cutter carriage that has a cutter blade for cutting the recording medium and that is movable in a direction perpendicular to the transport direction of the... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8016501 | Printer and printing method When a print tape (8) to be used as the label (25α) of a first sheet desired by one user is printed with no cut and then predetermined conditions, e.g. “time out elapse”, are satisfied, the label (25α) is outputted from a printer (6... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7988374 | Sheet cutting device and printer A printing device has a platen roller, a print head for printing on a sheet material, and a sheet cutting device for cutting the sheet material on which printing has been performed. The sheet cutting device has a stationary blade and a movable blade for cutting the ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7967517 | Printing system and cutting method where when cutting information is not detected, cutting occurs at a set length set in advance A printing system comprising: a printing device having a printing portion and a printing control portion; and a cutting device having a cutting portion which cuts a continuous sheet, a conveying portion conveying the continuous sheet, a detecting portion detecting c... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7891895 | Receipt printer configurable for full or partial cut A receipt printer having a scissor cutter for cutting off a receipt from a paper roll. The scissor cutter includes a moving blade that articulates across an adjustable stationary blade. The adjustable stationary blade is adjustable laterally according to whether a f... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7891894 | Printer A printer in which when an optical disk is inserted into a conveyance path in a printer body, an inlet cover is moved to a position where the inlet cover opens an inlet in a cover provided on the printer body. This causes a cutter button that operates a cutter for a... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7883283 | Printer equipped with cutter mechanism A rolled sheet is accommodated in an accommodating section. A cover is movable between an open position for opening the accommodating section and a closed position for covering the accommodating section. A part of the rolled sheet fed from the accommodating section ... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7857534 | Printer apparatus A printer apparatus is disclosed that includes a main body having a paper roll installing part containing a paper roll therein; a cover covering the paper roll installing part when the cover is closed; a printing part for printing data onto a part of the paper roll;... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7819599 | Cutting device for tape printing apparatus There is provided a tape printing apparatus capable of improving durability performance of a cutting mechanism constituted of a fixed blade and a movable blade tremendously. The bottom edge portion of an opening portion in a rear frame is formed to be located below ... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7815382 | Cutter assembly for a printer A cutter assembly for cutting printed media in a printer comprises a housing arranged for displacement across a media path, in a cutting direction at right angles to a media advance direction in the printer, a first rotary cutting blade carried on said housing such ... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7806608 | Tape/tube printer A half cut portion is provided with a receiving base for receiving a tube, and a cutter for cutting the tube. The receiving base is provided with a stroke adjusting lever on an upper portion of the receiving base, and the stroke adjusting lever is provided with a ca... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7771134 | Image recording apparatus including cutting unit and guide member with friction member The image coding apparatus includes conveying unit configured to convey a roll-shaped recording medium, a recording head adapted to record an image on the recording medium, a guide member configured for guiding the recording medium, and a cutting unit configured to ... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7766570 | RFID label and label producing device A label producing device for producing an RFID label using a tag label tape with print includes a tape feed roller for feeding the tag label tape with print, a print head for performing printing on a print area provided in a cover film, a half-cut unit for cutting, ... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7731437 | Paper cutting device and printer A paper cutting device comprising a fixed blade, a movable blade, a movable blade drive mechanism for moving the movable blade, wherein the movable blade and the fixed blade are disposed in substantially perpendicular positions. ... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7686527 | 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... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7654760 | Tape printer with tape jam eliminating control in relation to tape cutting operation A tape printer includes a cutter lever that is capable of moving within a prescribed operating range, a tape-cutting mechanism for cutting a printing tape after the printing tape has been printed by a thermal head when the cutter lever moves past a prescribed range,... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7632031 | Material cutter with a selectable cutting profile A material cutter for producing a selected cutting profile. The material cutter includes a cutter frame and a cutter button. The cutter frame has a stationary blade. The cutter button, which is slidably mounted in the cutter frame, has a moving blade with a cutting ... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7628557 | Web printer for printing a pattern according to a sample A web printer for printing patterns on continuous print media the web printer comprising a cabinet one or more print media cartridges mounted in a releasable manner within the cabinet and each carrying a wound length of print media one or more ink reservoirs mounted... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7625147 | Printer In a printer for printing a rolled printing paper, a front panel is attached to a frame that houses a print unit and a paper holder unit. When the front panel is opened, the print unit and the paper holder unit project on the front side of the frame in association w... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7625146 | Method and system for custom paper cutting A system automatically cuts recording media into non-standard sizes and shapes. The system includes a support for supporting recording media, a feeder mechanism for transporting recording media onto the support, a cutting head having at least one cutting member, and... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7604426 | Paper cutting device and a printer with a paper cutting device A paper cutting device for cutting sheet material from the lengthwise edges of the material toward the middle comprising a stationary blade and first and second movable blades with the sheet material placed between the stationary blade and the first and second movab... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7597493 | Tape printing device and program There is provided a tape printing device capable of using long tape-like print media such as label tape having a plurality of label areas as targets of printing arranged on a long support tape along the length of the support tape and normal tape allowing printing at... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7588382 | Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus An object of this invention is to provide a sheet processing apparatus capable of cutting a sheet and recording information on the back surface of the sheet without enlarging the size of the apparatus and dropping productivity. The sheet processing apparatus which e... | 09/15/2009 |
