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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7210866 | Printer having adjustable media support A printer is provided comprising an elongate printhead for printing across the pagewidth of print media, a rotatable, elongate platen arranged to support the print media being printed on by the printhead, a sensor for sensing a thickness of the print media, and a co... | 05/01/2007 |
| 6918647 | Inkjet printhead assembly having a rotary platen assembly An inkjet printhead assembly includes a carrier. An ink supply assembly is mounted on the carrier and defines a plurality of printhead chip receiving formations that are each dimensioned to engage a printhead chip and a plurality of ink supply conduits that terminat... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6672357 | Hot-stamping device This invention relates to a hot-stamping device comprising a stamping arm with one end being a free end, a stamping section adapted to apply pressure to a hot-stamping foil positioned at the free end to a value-added medium such as ticket wherein the hot-... | 01/06/2004 |
| 4943814 | Computer controllable multi-purpose platen thermal printer A method and apparatus for printing information on a web of material utilizing a roller platen located on the opposite side of a web feed path from a printhead. The roller platen has an outer arcuate surface which presses the printing material against the... | 07/24/1990 |
| 4940994 | Thermal printer A thermal printer which includes a thermal print head (15) which is displaceable in the line direction and a print bar (6) which extends in the line direction, the print bar being located opposite the print head and being pivotable about an axis parallel ... | 07/10/1990 |
| 4722621 | Keyboard assembly and recording apparatus A keyboard assembly for selecting characters to be recorded includes a substrate carrying an array of characters arranged on one face thereof. A character selection device moves between advanced and retracted positions along each of two axes of the array ... | 02/02/1988 |
| 4627755 | Platen of a printer A printing color indicating member is furnished to a non-printing portion of an ink impregnated porous substance body, so that a desired printing color can be exactly designated, and the porous substance body of the desired color may be easily chosen, irr... | 12/09/1986 |
| 4605328 | Polychrome printing platen of a printer A polychrome printing platen of a printer having a platen shaft comprises an axially elongated platen body rotatably mounted on the platen shaft and having a plurality of grooves formed therein to extend in the axial direction and spaced from each other i... | 08/12/1986 |
| 4462705 | Cross hammer dot printer A print head travelled lengthwise with respect to a cylindrical rotary drum provided on its outer periphery with a plurality of ridges extending parallel to the axis has two or more print hammers electromagnetically driven. The print hammers are arranged ... | 07/31/1984 |
| 4000803 | Vacuum-buffered bidirectional paper drive system A printer-plotter system includes a vacuum-buffered bidirectional paper drive system for moving paper uniformly forward and backward over a sprocketed platen and sprocketed drum. The platen comprises a stationary portion with a flat region and a rotatable... | 01/04/1977 |
