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WO/2022/162195A1
The invention relates to a removable device (10) adapted to cooperate with a conveyor system for the installation of an endless ribbon in said conveyor system, the removable device (10) comprising at least two support elements (14) to su...  
WO/2022/130333A1
A printing mechanism of a plastic card retransfer printer includes a platen roller with a homing mechanism attached thereto that automatically returns the platen roller to the same home position at the end of each printing pass. The homi...  
WO/2022/081667A1
A media cartridge includes: a base defining a media chamber and including a lower wall and an opposing upper wall; an identification circuit disposed on the lower wall, the identification circuit configured to engage with an electronic i...  
WO/2022/024809A1
The present invention provides a printing device that enables wide use of space in the device. The printing device comprises a body and a cassette that is attached to or detached from the body. A positioning shaft 50 is provided on the b...  
WO/2021/257575A1
A multi-color ribbon (104, 304) configured for use in a hot stamp printing system (100) is provided. The multi-color ribbon includes an elongated carrier that continuously extends from a first end (200, 300) to an opposite end (202, 302)...  
WO/2020/012670A1
A printer comprising: a printing part that performs printing on a print medium; a ribbon take-up spindle that takes up ink ribbon that has been used by the printing part; a ribbon feeding spindle that holds an ink ribbon to be fed to the...  
WO/2019/230011A1
This printer comprises: a printing unit for performing printing on a print medium; a ribbon shaft that holds an ink ribbon; a partitioning member provided to be capable of swinging between a closed position at which gears that transmit d...  
WO/2019/208511A1
Provided are a printing device with which it is possible for positioning of a printing head with respect to an ink ribbon to be achieved using a simple configuration, thereby enabling highly accurate color printing to be performed, and a...  
WO/2019/186627A1
An image generation control unit 22 generates a connected image Gw indicating images G1, G2, and G3. The connected image Gw is an image for performing printing using a region Rt1a to be used in n-th printing processing and a region Rt1b ...  
WO/2019/155991A1
Provided are an ink ribbon color determining device and method capable of determining the color of an ink ribbon with a high degree of accuracy, and a printing device provided with the color determining device. A control unit 1 of this c...  
WO/2019/111851A1
Provided are a thermal transfer sheet which enables an improvement in operational efficiency in the manufacture thereof and enables the type thereof to be identified, and a thermal transfer printing device employing the thermal transfer ...  
WO/2019/065655A1
This printer is provided with a printing part that prints onto a printing medium, a ribbon supply shaft holding an ink ribbon which is supplied to the printing part, a ribbon rewinding shaft which rewinds a used ink ribbon, a printing un...  
WO/2019/002856A1
A method of operating a transfer printer configured to transfer ink from a printer ribbon to a substrate which is transported along a predetermined substrate path adjacent to the printer. The printer comprises a tape drive comprising two...  
WO/2019/002886A1
There is provided a tape drive. The tape drive comprises first and second spool supports on which spools of tape may be mounted. The tape drive further comprises an optical sensing system. The optical sensing system comprises a radiation...  
WO/2019/002857A1
A method for monitoring a characteristic of a printed image of a thermal transfer printer. The method comprises providing a ribbon and a substrate at a printing location of the thermal transfer printer. The method further comprises print...  
WO/2019/004343A1
The present invention stabilizes the image quality of printed images. This thermal transfer printing apparatus: has a thermal head 1 and a platen roll 2; and forms an image on printing paper 7 by overlaying, on the printing paper 7, an i...  
WO/2018/123481A1
Provided is a tape cassette in which ink is satisfactorily transferred from an ink ribbon onto a film. [Solution] A tape cassette is attachable to a tape printing device provided with a thermal head. The tape cassette includes an ink rib...  
WO/2018/062304A1
A heat transfer system is provided with: a first heating element (22) for transferring ink (12a) of an ink layer (12) to a transfer-receiving body (15) in a first pattern; a winding part (20) for winding an ink ribbon (14), which has fin...  
WO/2018/033745A1
A printhead for a thermal transfer printer comprising a plurality of printing elements, each of the printing elements being configured to transfer ink from an ink carrying ribbon to a substrate, and at least one sensor arranged to sense ...  
WO/2018/025196A1
The printing machine (1) comprises: a supporting structure (11); a thermal transfer assembly (20) movable in a predetermined horizontal direction (21) and comprising a rotatable motorized transfer roller (30) and heating means (70, 71) a...  
WO/2018/017682A1
Systems and methods where multi-color graphics on a substrate are printed at a first resolution, and single color data is printed at a second, higher resolution using the same print head. The multi-color graphics can be a printed photogr...  
WO/2017/021704A1
A tape drive comprises a spool support (30) for supporting a tape spool (32), wherein the spool support comprises a support surface (34) mounted to a tape drive base plate (36) such that the support surface (34) is fixed against rotation...  
WO/2017/012504A1
Provided are a printer and a control method therefor. The printing control method comprises: when an ink ribbon of a reference colour is used to print, printing a first positioning mark and a first printing content on a printing paper; a...  
WO/2016/160422A1
The invention relates to a printer device for thermal printing or embossing of a carrier film (1) coated with a coloring matter on a substrate (2), wherein the printer device has a roller arrangement (3) for accommodating the carrier fil...  
WO/2016/047226A1
An image forming apparatus (51) is provided with a platen roller (26), an ink ribbon (11), a body (21) to which an image is to be transferred, a thermal head (16), and a control unit (CT). When n continuous transfer regions that are set ...  
WO/2016/017145A1
The present invention is capable of performing two-color or three-color printing using a thermal print head. Provided are: a print medium furnished with a base material, a first heat-sensitive color-developing material layer formed by co...  
WO/2015/095159A2
A device for processing media may include a system and method for loading and unloading consumable supplies of a media processing device, and more particularly, a system and method for providing a compact form factor media processing dev...  
WO/2015/052531A2
A thermal transfer printer comprising: first and second spool supports each being configured to support a spool of ribbon; a ribbon drive configured to cause movement of ribbon from the first spool support to the second spool support; a ...  
WO/2014/208203A1
Provided are an image forming device and an image forming method that reduce the likelihood that a boundary between transfer material regions will be erroneously detected, in a case where image formation is newly carried out by using an ...  
WO/2014/120567A1
A printing system includes a controller (126) and a ribbon reading device (132). The controller (126) is configured to control operations of the printing system (100) according to operational parameters. The operational parameters used t...  
WO/2014/120614A1
A ribbon guide (324) for a ribbon printing system includes a body that is elongated along a longitudinal axis (406) from a base end (402) to an opposite end (400) and having a tapered shape from the base end (402) to the opposite end (40...  
WO/2014/120617A1
A ribbon tension control system for a printing system includes a ribbon tension control apparatus. The ribbon tension control apparatus is configured to engage a print ribbon (200) that extends through the printing system for applying on...  
WO/2014/000584A1
A carbon ribbon recovery mechanism and a thermal transfer printer using same. The carbon ribbon recovery mechanism comprises a recovering component and a driving component. The recovering component comprises: a friction element (1), tran...  
WO/2013/181987A1
A thermal transfer printer comprises a frame, a printing mechanism (2) and a carbon ribbon mechanism (3). The frame comprises a base (100), a carbon ribbon bracket (300) pivoted the base (100) through their respective pivot axis, and an ...  
WO/2013/137880A1
In a method, a first image (140) is printed (152) within an image area (130) on a surface (118) of a substrate (104) by transferring resin pixels (136) of a plurality of resin pixel lines (134) from the print panel to the image area usin...  
WO/2013/091478A1
Disclosed are a multicolor carbon ribbon color identification method, a multicolor carbon ribbon positioning method, and a thermal printer. The multicolor carbon ribbon color identification method comprises: a light generator emitting co...  
WO/2013/025746A1
A thermal transfer printer, including first and second spool supports each being configured to support a spool of ribbon; a ribbon drive configured to cause movement of ribbon from the first support to the second spool support; a printhe...  
WO/2013/008846A1
Provided is a printing device provided with a transfer receiving roller to which ink of an ink ribbon heated by an erasing thermal head is transferred, such that an ink removal mark having the same shape as a printed image printed on the...  
WO/2013/008845A1
Provided is a method for controlling a card-printing device in which the configuration of the card-printing device can be simplified while the print image printed on a card is prevented from readily being acquired from an ink separation ...  
WO/2012/119076A2
There is provided herein a method for recovering petroleum from a formation, wherein said formation is intersected by at least one wellpair consisting of a horizontal production well and a horizontal injection well, and wherein said form...  
WO/2012/095144A1
The invention relates to an ink ribbon device (2000) comprising an ink ribbon (2030) for a printing device, in particular for a matrix printer, characterised in that said ink ribbon device (2000) comprises a code device (2080), in partic...  
WO/2012/077255A1
[Problem] The purpose of the present invention is to provide a thermal head and a thermal transfer printer wherein tension is applied to an ink ribbon which is heated by a thermal head and comes loose, and frictional force generating bet...  
WO/2012/043240A1
The present invention provides a service device that can prevent the unauthorized use of consumable products by preventing the unauthorized rewriting of the remaining amount of content in a consumable product without the use of encryptio...  
WO/2012/010901A1
A tape drive (10) and a method of operation of the tape drive (10), including obtaining the circumferences of a pair of spools of tape (30, 32), the pair of spools (30, 32) including a supply spool (30) upon which tape is initially wound...  
WO/2012/008126A1
A tape cartridge 11 includes a platen roller 15, when the tape cartridge 11 is mounted on a tape printer 1, a print head 22 of the tape printer 1 contacting the platen roller 15 with a print tape T and an ink ribbon R arranged therebetwe...  
WO/2011/157155A1
An ink ribbon cassette (100) for a thermal sublimation printer is disclosed. The ribbon cassette comprises: a cassette body (101), a paper roll (102) for feeding printing paper, and ink ribbon rolls (103) whose standby sections are wound...  
WO/2011/139703A2
Methods and devices are described for securely destroying used ribbon from a document personalization machine in order to render any information retained on the used ribbon as unreadable. In one embodiment, the method includes tapering t...  
WO/2011/114136A1
A printing apparatus (10, 110) for printing on a substrate (24), the apparatus (10, 110) including a base (11) mounting a storage spool (15) for storing printing ribbon (16) of the kind including a web carrying marking medium, and the ba...  
WO/2010/078804A1
A portable barcode label printer includes a carbon ribbon cassette (100) and a printing drive device (200). The printing drive device (200) includes a ribbon supply shaft (220) and a ribbon recovery shaft (230). The ribbon cassette (100)...  
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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