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WO/1999/056961A1
The invention concerns a method for successively printing, by ink transfer, a plurality of images on at least one printed support (100) using an imaging tape (10), wherein, for printing each image, the tape (10) is driven simultaneously ...  
WO/1999/056962A1
The invention concerns a consumable item (6) cartridge (1) for a printer, comprising a chip card (3, 4) storing data concerning the consumable technical characteristics and print control (14). The electronic chip (4) is designed to be re...  
WO/1999/044834A1
A thermal transfer ink ribbon cartridge (5) for a bidirectional hand held printer (10) forms and integral part of the printer sidewall (49). Take up and supply spools (32, 34) rotatably accommodated in the cartridge housing allow loading...  
WO/1999/043504A1
To lower the consumption of ink ribbon material in a thermoprinting device, the continuous feeding of the ink ribbon stored on a supply reel (7) is halted until the print head has reached its printing position. Once printing has been com...  
WO/1999/028131A1
A facsimile device (1) having paper-supply holding means (2) for holding at least one sheet of paper (3) and having thermal printing means (14) for printing the sheet of paper (3) by means of a thermo-transfer foil (7) includes additiona...  
WO/1999/026789A1
A ribbon tensioning assembly includes a knob (44) having a top wall, an internal raised portion attached to the top wall (46) having a first helical camming surface and a second helical camming surface out of phase and disposed about a c...  
WO/1999/020471A2
A dyesheet cassette (3) contains a dyesheet (2) mounted between supply and take-up spools (5 and 6) for printing to e.g. a slide (1) using a laser beam (8) focussed by a rod lens (7). The cassette (3) comprising a moulded casing (13) hav...  
WO/1999/020473A1
In an apparatus for printing, e.g. a 35 mm slide (1) mounted on a support (4), dye is transferred to a receiver portion of the slide (1) from a dye donor ribbon (2) mounted in a cassette (3) using a modulated scanning laser beam (8) that...  
WO/1999/000255A1
To print special characters, especially franking characters on letters and parcels, so-called thermotransfer printing methods are increasingly used. When the thin transfer tape is slid across the printing head the extremely thin tape is ...  
WO/1998/051510A1
A pulley tensioner (10) for applying torque or tension to a pulley (14) is disclosed which includes a spring system (16) configured to at least partially encircle the periphery (18) of the pulley (14). The spring system (16) is anchored ...  
WO/1998/009821A1
A plurality of print data items are previously input and stored in a RAM. Each of the print data items is represented by a pointer n. When processing starts, print lengths (Ln) of the print data items are calculated (S1). The print lengt...  
WO/1998/004416A1
In a printer provided with drive pulse control means for stopping a drive pulse after the drive pulse is outputted to have a stepping motor (M) stepping out even after a movable member (20) abuts against a stopper (34), there is provided...  
WO/1997/032731A1
The invention relates to a tape printer with a cassette chamber (2) into which can be inserted a cassette (10) containing a tape (14) to be printed, in which there is an openable cover (55) on the cassette chamber (2), and a printing hea...  
WO/1997/026139A1
A printer apparatus (10) includes a removable print ribbon cartridge (18). The print cartridge includes a ribbon (20) which is movable by a transmission mechanism (49). A ribbon drive member (65) in said transmission mechanism includes f...  
WO/1997/018089A1
A printing apparatus (10; 50) for printing on a substrate (16; 56) comprising a base (B; B') mounting a storage spool (11; 51) for printing ribbon, a ribbon take-up spool (12; 52), and there being a ribbon path from the storage (11; 51) ...  
WO/1997/010956A1
Thermal transfer printing medium comprising a substrate, energy absorber and a transfer coating layer comprising colorant, wherein the print energy absorber is arranged so as not to alter printed characteristics of colorant. A method of ...  
WO/1997/001443A1
A thermal head (80) for transferring a varnish layer (3) from a ribbon (20) onto a surface (26) to be varnished, including a first ribbon heating means for transferring the varnish layer onto the surface (26) to be varnished, and a secon...  
WO/1997/001444A1
A thermal ink transfer printer (1, 40, 41, 80) including a thermal print head (6), an ink ribbon (8) with a plurality of colour sequences (J, M, C, T, N), and means for converting the Red, Green, Blue coding of an image to be printed int...  
WO/1996/016815A1
A tape cartridge (4) can be detachably fitted to a fitting portion (5) of a printer (20) and this fitting portion (5) is covered with a cover (22). When the cover (22) is closed, its protuberance (51) rotates a turning member (54), and a...  
WO/1995/025014A1
A statement printer of an automated teller machine includes a top plate (16) pivotally mounted on a pair of spaced side walls (12). The top plate supports a ribbon cartridge (18) thereon. The cartridge includes a pair of downward extendi...  
WO/1995/024316A1
A print ribbon has a flexible substrate (200) and transferrable ink (202) located on a portion of one of the first and second surfaces of the flexible substrate includes machine-readable indicia (B1-B23) on one of the first and second su...  
WO/1995/016571A1
Dye diffusion thermal printing method and apparatus, particulary for the preparation of 35 mm format slides using a laser as the source of thermal stimulii, in which each successive dye coat of a dye ribbon on which the dye coats are in ...  
WO/1995/015855A1
This invention is a thermal printing device having a print mechanism (12) which includes a platen roller assembly (24) in combination with a movable print head assembly (25). Further aspects of the present invention include a switch mech...  
WO/1995/012538A1
An autochanger can continuously operate a video printer device without human intervention. The video printer device is loaded with a paper feed tray, which stores a plurality of recording media, and/or an ink ribbon cartridge in a manner...  
WO/1994/021468A1
A ribbon cassette (10) for a thermal printer (14) is disclosed. The cassette (10) shown in the figure is configured to be stably mounted to a print carriage (16) of a thermal printer (14), or to a storage turret (34) mounted to the print...  
WO/1994/021467A1
The invention relates to a ribbon guide section for electronic printers, especially stylus printers, which contains the ribbon guide for the printer. So far, the ribbon (3) was pushed into the basic position over a bevel on the printing ...  
WO/1994/011196A1
A thermal printing machine (30) is provided with a releasably attachable tape cassette (1) which holds the tape (5) on which an image is placed. The cassette includes a memory circuit component (15) which includes at least two separate m...  
WO/1994/002323A1
Apparatus is disclosed as shown in Figure 1 for use with printers (25) for storing and transferring ribbon cassettes (600) between a print head (28) and a storage station (710). The printer (25) includes a print head (28) that has to be ...  
WO/1993/014934A1
A printer (10) including a print head assembly (52) and a transport belt (14) for transporting a plastic card (110) through the printer (10). The transport belt (14) includes a surface self-adhering to a surface of the plastic card (110)...  
WO/1992/013721A1
A printing machine (7) includes a print head (8) and a set of sensors (14,16) adapted to accurately determine the relative position between the print head and a receiver (12) (print media) onto which an image is to be formed. Any disloca...  
WO/1991/019375A1
A continuous-tone thermal printer (10) includes a transport mechanism (T) for advancing a print medium (W) past a thermal print head (H) while continuous-tone image information is being printed, line-by-line, on the medium. To increase t...  
WO/1991/013765A1
A flat printer (102) is divided in the plane of a print carrier into a lower housing part (104) and a housing cover (106) which can be placed on or removed from the latter. The housing cover (106) is pivotally connected to the lower hous...  
WO/1991/014221A1
The invention concerns a portable laptop computer. The computer comprises a base housing and associated printer (2'), an input keyboard (320, 328) and a screen (306, 304). The housing has a channel (3') through which the printing paper i...  
WO/1991/012969A1
A display device for indicating the printing color of a printer by which the operator can confirm the printing color selected manually. The device is used in a printer which performs printing in a required printing color, using selective...  
WO/1991/012970A1
A thermal printing apparatus (40) includes a slide assembly (120) for advancing a receptor material (44) and a ribbon material (42) relative to a print head (80) and a platen (90). The print head (80) causes color transfer from the multi...  
WO/1990/003721A1
An apparatus and method for printing a graphic design on a hard plastic workpiece such as a credit card blank includes a thermal printing element which is supported by a head assembly that has been designed a single link, to have low mec...  
WO/1990/000974A1
Containers (11, 12) for printing devices, be they ink reservoirs, ribbon cassettes or toner reservoirs, are fitted with an electronic storage device (14) in the form of a chip in which the information on the current level of the containe...  
WO/1988/010041A2
A signal processing for a color thermal printing apparatus first corrects contact and color and then provides edge enhancement.  
WO1988010041A1
A signal processing for a color thermal printing apparatus first corrects contact and color and then provides edge enhancement.  
WO/1988/007936A1
This invention relates to a serial color printer having a cassette holder (3) mounted inclinably to a carriage (2) which supports detachably an ink ribbon cassette (3) on the carriage (2) of a printing head and is capable of moving the i...  
WO/1988/000888A1
In a thermal printer for printing color images which uses a carrier having a repeating series of spaced frames of yellow, magenta and cyan colored heat transferable dyes, apparatus for identifying the different color frames of each serie...  
WO/1987/006193A1
A carrier which can be used in a thermal printer includes a repeating series of spaced yellow, magenta and cyan dye frames having clear interframe areas disposed between dye frames. A cyan code patch is disposed in a portion of the clear...  
WO/1987/004666A1
An image recording device capable of recording tonal images by the use of ink sheets and an ink-sheet cassette applicable to said recording device. By means of the device and the ink-sheet cassette, a clear tonal image can be obtained by...  
WO/1986/004021A1
A dot matrix printer (10) utilizes an inking roller (34) for supplying ink to the surface of a rotatable platen (12) and has guide means (26) adjacent the platen (12) to separate the print paper from the platen (12). The guide means has ...  
WO/1985/005326A1
An ink ribbon cartridge for a printer comprising a storage reel for an ink ribbon, a take-up reel for the ink ribbon, drive wheels for longitudinally advancing the ink ribbon from the storage reel to the take-up reel for printing on the ...  
WO/1985/001476A1
A method and device for checking the printing quality of matrix or liquid jet printers (2). A character (3) is printed in the paper margin and is optically sensed in connection with line shift. The signal pattern from the symbol is compa...  
WO/1985/001015A1
A printing apparatus includes a rotatable support drum (62) on the outer surface of which are positioned a plurality of character sets (60) extending generally parallel to the axis of rotation of the support drum. Each character set comp...  
WO/1984/003475A1
Leading means (2, 3) for changing the direction of a typing ribbon in typewriters and the like is pivotably adapted such that in changing the height of the ribbon at the printing location relative the writing means of the machine, forces...  
WO/1984/000925A1
The device for polychromatic printing comprises type-heads (4), collected in stationary unit (5) and arranged therein one after the other around a paper-supporting roller (2) so that they may print the information simultaneously and act ...  
WO/1984/000927A1
A heat-sensitive transfer recording ink ribbon capable of printing various still images such as video camera or television image as hard copies based on sublimation tranfer of a sublimable dye to a paper substrate to be transferred to ob...  

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