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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7066670 | Printing method and apparatus A printer (24) for printing upon a continuous web of print receivable media (18) is provided. The printer includes a print head (28) having a media drive assembly side and a media drive assembly for moving the media across the print head. The me... | 06/27/2006 |
| 6742948 | Apparatus for flattening a substrate and method thereof A method and apparatus for flattening a substrate against a surface of a platform is provided. The method comprising positioning guides within a platform so that opposite edges of a substrate placed on the platform do not come in contact with at least one print head... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6705786 | Duplex printing of print sheets Systems and methods for duplex printing of print sheets are described. In one aspect, a duplex module is configured so that print sheets may be controllably and reliably re-introduced into a print module in an orientation that is suitable for marking the second side... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6648328 | Sheet transfer device with guide plates and hold rollers To prevent wavy swell from causing in sheet in transferring thereof and avoid wrinkle from being produced in later printing steps, there is provided a sheet transfer machine forward from a printing drum and a press roll. The machine is provided with upper... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6299367 | Coil spring sheet-pressing member for sheet feeding mechanism A sheet feeding mechanism includes a sheet feed roller for transporting a sheet along a paper transport path, and a sheet-pressing member disposed so as to press the sheet feed roller. The sheet-pressing member integrally includes a pressing portion which... | 10/09/2001 |
| 5842799 | Recording apparatus with sheet guide A printer is provided with a platen having a sloping plane platen surface, a medium guide path for smoothly guiding paper along the plane including the platen surface, a transparent open/close paper guide positioned above the medium guide path, and two pa... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5826996 | Top loading apparatus for a printer A top loading apparatus for use in a sheet feeding system for a printer is disclosed, wherein a finger which performs sheet loading is operated with a lever by user manipulation and is capable of elastic restoration. The apparatus comprises a lever rotata... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5597251 | Color printer An image printing apparatus having high quality image printing capability due to minimized registration errors is provided. The image printing apparatus has a thermal head 18 and a platen roller 15 which is shorter in its circumference than the length of ... | 01/28/1997 |
| 5516222 | Printing device having limited movement paper guide A paper conveyance system for individually transporting cut sheets having various thicknesses and rigidity through a printing device includes a main roller for driving the cut sheets, a nip pair located downstream of the main roller, and a top paper guide... | 05/14/1996 |
| 5447384 | Serial printer having printing support conveying lid Serial printer having a printing support conveying lid formed by a rigid plate hinged to the printer and extending for the whole lenght of the print line the plate being provided with a resilient lip having a free edge located immediately dowstream of the... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5399038 | Dual line slip printer A dual line slip printer wherein a slip is dropped into a chute to bottom against a supporting member and a serially operated inkjet print head is moved along the length of the slip to print a line of type characters and is then returned to print a second... | 03/21/1995 |
| 5325777 | Image forming apparatus and method An image forming apparatus includes a drum gear having a first guide slot and a cam, a clamp having a first interlocking pin inserted into the first guide slot and a cam pin is interlocked with the cam. A release lever is mounted on a support plate on whi... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5092698 | Platen roller apparatus A platen roller apparatus having a cylindrical platen roller, a recording sheet retaining member capable of moving while being maintained in parallel with the axis of the platen roller, a positioning member for positioning a recording sheet on the platen ... | 03/03/1992 |
| 4666322 | Record carrier feed device Disclosed is a record carrier feed device in which a guide bar is disposed in a position where the leading edge of a record carrier wound around a platen is on the point of separating from the cylindrical surface of the platen in a direction tangential th... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4526489 | Printer housing with web tensioning means A housing for an impact printer has a case body and a cover thereof. They define therebetween an opening for the passage of the paper to be printed and the printed paper. A paper shelf lies over the top surface of the case body, and supported at one end r... | 07/02/1985 |
| 4525087 | Paper handling apparatus with continuous drive roll and pressure finger Apparatus for handling fanfold paper exiting from a printer includes a pair of drive rollers which support the paper and with a pair of pressure fingers which press the paper against the drive rollers to exert a nearly constant pulling force on the paper.... | 06/25/1985 |
| 4437780 | Cylindrical platen printer with improved paper guide For the reliable guiding of a record carrier and the printing thereon as far as in the vicinity of the upper and lower edge, a pivotable device is arranged over the printing drum, said device comprising two or more flat hold-down devices which are arrange... | 03/20/1984 |
