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WO/2008/107648A1
A tape drive comprising first and second motors (12, 13), the first motor being a torque-controlled motor, two tape spool supports on which spools of tape may be mounted, each spool being drivable by a respective motor, and a controller ...  
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...  
WO/2008/089682A1
A printer and a printing control method, of which the printer includes the following parts. A print head moves between the printing region and the shifting region; a character carriage connects the said print head and the print head carr...  
WO/2008/001669A1
A time recorder (1) is provided with a printing head (40); a ribbon cassette (30), which is provided with an ink ribbon (31) whereupon different colors are applied in the width direction and is swingably supported; and a cam (64), which ...  
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...  
WO/2007/077482A2
Having at least one input guide roller (1 ) which guides a printing ribbon (2) towards a drum (3) placed after a thermal printing head (10) and before some output guide rollers (4). It incorporates a swivelling roller (5) which rotates a...  
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, ...  
WO/2007/056292A2
A thermal printing head having a two-dimensional array of resistive heating elements, and a method of printing using such a thermal printing head. The resistive heating elements in different rows of such elements may differ in dimensions...  
WO/2007/045613A1
Improvements in a thermal printing ribbon (3) feed cassette (1) make it possible to increase the unwinding speed of the ribbon (3), accelerate the printing frequency, while guaranteeing the printing reliability. A magnetically actuated c...  
WO/2007/030997A1
Bar-code label printer with a carbon ribbon adjusting apparatus includes a framework, a print head provided on the framework, a carbon ribbon supply reel, and an adjusting apparatus located between the print head and the carbon ribbon su...  
WO/2007/030854A1
Feed mechanism for wide format printer (1), feed mechanism comprising: supply spool (4): take-up spool (5); take-up motor (14) operatively connected to take-up spool; take-up control system for controlling torque of take-up motor (27); d...  
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...  
WO/2006/088977A2
A method for operating more than one thermal printer (22, 42) adapted to print images by transferring donor material (30) from patches of donor material from a donor ribbon onto a receiver medium (26, 46), each printer (22, 42) being ope...  
WO/2006/041016A1
[PROBLEMS] To provide a medicine delivering device having a printer enabling the easy insertion of an ink tape and the easy detachment/attachment of an ink ribbon. [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] This medicine delivering device comprises a ...  
WO/2006/038625A1
A printer (1) using a cassette-type ink ribbon, in which a paper discharge opening (8) doubles as an ink ribbon insertion opening. A paper cutter (11) is disposed at a position at which a paper discharge course is limited. A part of the ...  
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 (...  
WO/2005/100034A1
The present invention relates to a thermal transfer printer/labeller supplied with a printing ribbon and receiving ribbon contained in cassettes or equivalent packages.  
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...  
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 ...  
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 ...  
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...  
WO/2004/059241A2
The present invention relates to a cassette for a recording medium, comprising an upper casing and a lower casing (60), a spool (62) for holding a roll of recording medium (2) and disposed between the upper and lower casings, and a side ...  
WO/2004/058513A1
The machine (M) comprises at least one rotating spindle (1, 2; 1', 2'), and at least one ribbon spool (30) mounted on the said spindle (1, 2; 1’, 2’) and having an axial passage (31) in which a transversely projecting locating format...  
WO/2004/058509A1
A printing apparatus using a consumable providing at least one of an image receiving tape, the consumable carrying a tag holding parameter information identifying the width of the tape and status information including the amount of tape ...  
WO/2004/058507A1
A printing apparatus having a first zone for receiving a supply of image receiving tape and a second zone for receiving a supply of thermal transfer ribbon, means for identifying the nature of the image receiving tape and the thermal tra...  
WO/2004/011268A1
Improvements that facilitate loading of supply items into data bearing identification or financial document production equipment. A supply item for data bearing identification or financial document production equipment comprising: a supp...  
WO/2003/095215A1
A printer, wherein an ink switching cam (40) is rotated always interlockingly with the normal and reverse rotations of a head drive motor to swing a cassette support member (20), whereby an ink band can be switched with a simple structur...  
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 ...  
WO/2003/095216A1
A printer and method for monitoring consumption of a print ribbon (108) of a thermal printer is provided. A sensor (124) detects an indicator which is indicative of an amount of ribbon initiallly available for printing. The method includ...  
WO/2003/091030A1
The machine (1) comprises a support structure (4, 11) in which there are: a thermal-transfer device (14) having a movable active surface (36a; 136a) facing the path of the articles; supply and guide means (5-10) suitable for advancing a ...  
WO/2003/089247A1
The present invention is directed to an identification card printer 20 that can be used with a card cartridge 30 that protects a stack of cards 84 stored therein from environmental contamination and establishes a card transport plane, fr...  
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...  
WO/2003/080350A1
A cassette formed so that a recording medium is discharged from an outlet (18) formed in a body frame through a specified carrying route in the assembly of the body frame and a cover frame, comprising the body frame (2) for storing the t...  
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...  
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...  
WO/2003/012457A1
A motion detector (1) comprising a rotator member (10) having at least one radially positioned member (11) and being mounted for rotation from at least a first position to at least a second position; a detector member (20), preferably a ...  
WO/2002/062584A1
A thermal transfer printer includes three light emitting diodes (7, 8, 9) emitting red, green and blue light respectively, and respective detectors (10, 11, 12) mounted on the opposite side of a dyesheet (1) passing through the printer. ...  
WO/2002/053390A1
An apparatus for printing on a continuous web of linerless tape (20) defined by a print side for subsequent application to an article (14). The apparatus includes a support, a rotatably driven platen roller (24), a print head (60), and a...  
WO2002032684A9
A printer ribbon cartridge (10) having a base and a removable hinged lid is disclosed, wherein ribbon (12) is driven through the cartridge by a drive gear coupled with first and second idler gears. A foam reinking roller (30) supplies in...  
WO/2002/028657A1
An apparatus (1) for making visible recordings on a record carrier (10) with the aid of a thermal transfer foil has foil path influencing means (41) which are arranged to cooperate with the thermal transfer foil and with the aid of which...  
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...  
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...  
WO/2001/037208A2
A reflective type light sensitive sensor assembly (50) is used for sensing the position of marks (44) on a surface (14A) moving past the sensor (50). A typical showing is in relation to sensing marks (44) on a ribbon (14) used during pri...  
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.  
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),...  
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...  
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...  
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 ...  
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)...  
WO/2000/034050A1
A ribbon (12) for a thermal printer (10) has a series of frames of different colors (38, 40, 42, 44) in a sequence that are correlated to the position of cards (24) to be printed. The ribbon (12) has indexing marks (58) for each frame (3...  

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