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WO/2009/152312A1 |
A system and method is disclosed for monitoring and determining the amount of ribbon on a supply spool used in a printer. The system and method monitor the rotation of a drive motor to determine a change in useful life that is then used ...
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WO/2009/118955A1 |
[PROBLEMS] To provide a ribbon feeder which can assure a large winding amount using a single ribbon rewinding mechanism when an ink ribbon wound by either surface winding system and back winding system is attached to a ribbon supply shaf...
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WO/2009/111925A1 |
An erasing device for used ink-ribbon which comprising a heater (1). The heater (1) is provided on a dye layer (a') side of the ink ribbon (a) at the downstream of the printing apparatus and contacts with the dye layer (a') of the ink ri...
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WO/2008/146002A1 |
A printing apparatus configured to carryout a plurality of printing operations. The apparatus comprises a tape drive comprising two motors (12, 13), two tape spool supports on which spools of tape may be mounted, each spool being drivabl...
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WO/2008/142225A2 |
This hot-marking machine (1) comprises a marking member (6) intended to press a tape (7) against the peripheral surface (2A) of individual parts (2) in order to mark them, said individual parts (2) being positioned in succession in a mar...
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WO/2008/104212A1 |
The invention relates to a method for provision of activated temperature-sensitive and/or time-sensitive indicators for goods identification. In a method such as this, the indicator is activated, and a protective filter is then applied t...
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WO/2008/105528A1 |
[PROBLEMS] To provide a ribbon cassette device for a thermal transfer printer, which can fix a ribbon cassette (21), especially of a large roll thermal transfer ribbon, easily and surely to the side of a thermal transfer printer (1), and...
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WO/2008/096625A1 |
Intended is to facilitate the assembly of a thermal transfer type printer while adopting a constitution for transmitting the driving force of one motor to a platen roller and a ribbon carrying mechanism. This printer comprises (a) a prin...
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WO/2008/094391A1 |
A media assembly and printer media supply are provided that enable automatic determination of a predetermined parameter value of a strip of media material are disclosed. The media assembly includes a cylindrical core upon which a strip o...
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WO/2008/033191A2 |
Selectively printing full and fractional sized images with a donor ribbon. A first print order (90) and indicia are printed while the donor ribbon is advanced through the printer. Printing is performed using donor material on a first fra...
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WO2007097383B1 |
An integrated ink-and-paper cassette (1) mountable to a thermal transfer printer (40) includes an ink-sheet supply unit housing (20) between an opening (30) for ejecting the recording sheet (13) and an ink-sheet take-up unit housing (21)...
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WO/2008/010507A1 |
An ink ribbon cassette (10) comprises a bearing device (23) including an unwinding bearing body (17) having an unwinding bearing (13) for pivotally supporting an ink ribbon unwinding shaft (12), a winding bearing body (20) having a windi...
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WO/2008/008188A2 |
Standard format images having a length L in a print direction and wide-format images having a length greater than 2L in the print direction can be selectively printed from the same set of donor patches. At least one print order is receiv...
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WO/2008/005200A1 |
A cartridge having a donor ribbon; a supply housing having an exterior surface and further having a supply projection extending away from the exterior surface and allowing the donor ribbon to pass from the supply area to a supply waypoin...
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WO/2007/138764A1 |
A ribbon guide (11) is fitted to a protective cover (10) for covering heat-dissipating fins of a print head. A structure comprised of a receiving recessed part (22) and a sloped guide (24) for engagement with the ribbon guide (11) is pro...
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WO/2007/119387A1 |
An ink ribbon cassette (7) is inserted into and removed from a thermal transfer printer (1) in the longitudinal direction of the thermal head (2). The thermal head is provided with a lifting member(9), while the ink ribbon cassette is pr...
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WO/2007/097384A1 |
An integrated ink-and-paper cassette (1) mountable to a thermal transfer printer includes a casing (11) defining an ink-sheet supply unit housing (20) and an ink-sheet take-up unit housing (21) with an opening (34) provided therebetween ...
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WO/2007/074380A1 |
A printing device with n print heads (A, B, C, D, etc) which move together and are arranged equidistantly with a separation (d) between their centres which print on an inked printing ribbon (X) which advances when the heads (A, B, C, D, ...
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WO/2007/061844A1 |
Thermal printers (18) and methods for operating a thermal printer that applies donor material from donor patches (32) on a donor ribbon (30) to a received medium (26), the donor material being organized into sets (32.1,32.2), each set in...
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WO/2006/120870A1 |
A printer, wherein a ribbon feed shaft drive motor (8) and a ribbon windup shaft drive motor (10) are drivingly controlled independently of each other. When a ribbon state is not changed, after a control cycle is repeated for a set time,...
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WO/2006/090842A1 |
A ribbon cartridge and a recording device. The ribbon cartridge comprises a ribbon guide (51) having pairs of upper and lower plates (83) and (84) restricting the upper and lower ends of an ink ribbon (52), ribbon guide plates (85) dispo...
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WO/2006/069135A1 |
An adapter (100) is provided for use with a supply spool (102) having first and second spool ends (104, 106) the spool having web media (108) hereon. The adapter has a body (110) having first and second body ends (112, 114) with each of ...
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WO/2006/046373A1 |
An ink ribbon container assembled by folding paper and storing the spool of one ink ribbon, comprising a hook part and a groove in a kinematic pair with the hook part at the front part so that two ink ribbon containers can be joined to e...
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WO/2006/040686A1 |
This invention relates to a cassette comprising a supply of image receiving tape, said cassette having least one portion arranged to be in contact with said image receiving tape as said tape is drawn out of said cassette, said at least o...
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WO/2005/120844A1 |
Ribbon tension detecting means (20, 21) each consisting of a plate-like lever body (35) are disposed upstream and downstream, respectively, of a ribbon path from a platen (7). The plate-like lever body (35) has first and second rollers (...
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WO/2005/095110A1 |
A thermal transfer printer for film capable of thermal transfer printing on a plastic film. The thermal transfer printer for film (1) is provided with a means (3) for carrying the plastic film (2) along a specified passage, an ink ribbon...
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WO/2005/009740A1 |
A printer in which an ink ribbon can be replaced easily through removable engagement of a ribbon guide with a print head or a carriage mounting the print head. It is possible to prevent change of an interval between the upper surface of ...
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WO/2004/089634A2 |
An identification card printer 100 includes a card input 102, a card transport 104, a printhead 106, and a card output 108. The card transport is configured to feed a card 110 from the card input along a print path 112. The printhead is ...
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WO/2004/089633A2 |
A ribbon cartridge (130) includes a cartridge housing (300), a supply spool (122), a take-up spool (124), and a supply of ribbon. The cartridge housing includes a supply spool enclosure (302), a take-up spool enclosure (304), a pair of r...
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WO/2004/087429A2 |
A donor web (26) for use in a thermal transfer printer (10) comprises a foil having a transfer side (46) and a non-transfer side (48). A layer of thermal transfer material (50) is disposed on the transfer side (46) of the foil material. ...
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WO/2003/095214A1 |
A ribbon cartridge for a thermal transfer printer is configured to provide a retractable feed for a donor ribbon (16) wound on a core (44) within the housing (46), and a clutch (48) operatively coupled to the core. A resilient structure ...
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WO/2003/091031A1 |
A thermal printer for producing a printing on the surface of a foil. Ink is transferred to the foil by heating specific locations of a thermal transfer ribbon, causing the ink to be fluid. Printing is achieved by sandwiching the ribbon b...
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WO/2003/082586A1 |
In a communication system, a call center is connectable via a communication line to a facsimile apparatus having a printing function. The facsimile apparatus reads ribbon-ID data of an ink ribbon mounted therein, and sends the read ribbo...
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WO/2003/080353A1 |
A facsimile machine includes a detachable ribbon cassette accommodating an ink ribbon and having an EEPROM that stores the amount of the ink ribbon consumed. In the facsimile machine, printing is performed while the ink ribbon is taken u...
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WO/2003/080352A1 |
A cassette (1) that withdrawably holds a tape-like recording medium comprises a main body frame (2) that opens at one surface to receive the recording medium (4), and a cover frame (3) removably attached to the main body frame to close t...
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WO/2003/080355A1 |
A facsimile apparatus detects whether or not an ink ribbon internally mounted in an ribbon cassette amounted to the facsimile apparatus is a standard ink ribbon. When the apparatus detects a non-standard ink ribbon, the apparatus notifie...
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WO/2003/060811A2 |
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 t...
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WO/2003/041965A1 |
A printer includes a supply shaft wound with unused film including contrast agent, a winding shaft wound with used film including used contrast agent, rotation-speed detector for detecting a rotation speed of the supply shaft, and remain...
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WO/2003/004279A1 |
A printer, and a corresponding method, having a printhead assemble for printing on a sheet material disposed on a worksurface, said printhead assembly including a plurality of printing elements, said printer comprising: A printhead suppo...
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WO/2002/022371A2 |
A tape drive for use in for example transfer printing apparatus to drive a printer ribbon (6). The printer ribbon is mounted on two spools (17,11) each of which is driven by a respective stepper motor (2, 3). A controller controls the en...
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WO/2002/018254A1 |
A roll cassette capable of preventing a roll sheet from becoming loose and a tape printer, wherein an adhesive sheet (111) is stuck on the lateral end faces of the roll sheet (10) wound on a core (110), a slide spool (114) is inserted in...
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WO/2002/018147A1 |
A ribbon cassette capable of being prevented from rising during printing and a tape printer having the ribbon cassette loaded therein, wherein a ribbon spool (131) having the ink ribbon (130) wound thereon so that the print surface there...
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WO/2002/006053A1 |
A replacement ink ribbon holding mechanism (10) for holding an ink ribbon (20), comprising a transparent shell (11) and a mount (12), wherein loose winding prevention parts (11a to 11d) controlling the rotations of a feed side bobbin (21...
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WO/2001/074597A1 |
A device for forming an image by indirect transfer comprises a platen roller (2), an intermediate transfer film (3) provided on the platen roller (2), and an ink ribbon (4) laid on the intermediate transfer film (3). The ink ribbon (4) i...
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WO/2001/010649A1 |
A tape supply cartridge (10) for use in a printer of the type having a fixed print head (7), a movable platen roller (8) and a pair of tape advancement rollers (20, 9), one in the cartridge and one in the printer.
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WO/2001/007264A1 |
A sensor hub (10) for a print ribbon supply roll includes a sleeve (12) shaped to attach to the roll core of the print ribbon supply roll, a pin-receiving plate (14) secured to the sleeve (12) and including a plurality of apertures (16),...
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WO/2001/003940A1 |
The invention concerns a replaceable cassette comprising first and second rotary rollers (BO1 and BO2) on each of which is wound a tape (RE) from one of its ends, each roller (BO1 and BO2), being capable of being locked on a receiving ap...
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WO/2000/059729A2 |
Disclosed are the following: a wide format thermal printer for printing a multicolor graphic product on a printing sheet; a vacuum workbed for supporting a sheet material for performing work operations, such as cutting, printing or plott...
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WO/2000/043932A2 |
A printer (120) for printing onto a substrate (180) includes a substrate feed mechanism (186) configured to secure the substrate (180) during printing and a print mechanism (124) configured to print on the substrate (180). A transceiver ...
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WO/2000/040420A1 |
An ink ribbon winding mechanism (30), comprising a winding spool (38), a metallic pivot shaft (37) rotatably supporting a winding spool base part (31), and a coiled spring (36) installed between a base part (31) of the winding spool (38)...
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