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20080199237 | SYSTEM FOR ENABLING USER INTERACTION WITH COMPUTER SOFTWARE - A system for enabling user interaction with computer software is provided which has a printer. The printer receives print data, prints a form using the print data, receives indicating data from a sensing device and transfers the indicating data to a computer system. The form is printed by printing information related to at least one interactive element associated with the delivery of a greeting card and coded data indicative of the interactive element. At least some of the coded data is printed to be coincident with the information. The sensing device senses at least some of the coded data and generates the indicating data using the sensed coded data. The indicating data generated is at least partially indicative of the interactive element. The computer system interprets the transferred indicating data. | 08-21-2008 |
20080205959 | Printing apparatus and tangible computer-executable medium - A CPU generates time stamp data using a timed result for the present time timed by timer and a set expression pattern. Then, the CPU generates modified time stamp data for a predetermined time period based on the time stamp data. The CPU identifies the maximum time stamp data through the printing range of the above time stamp data. The CPU reduces the font size until the maximum time stamp data becomes printable onto the printing medium. The CPU then sets the reduced font size as the font size for each time stamp data, etc., and carries out printing. | 08-28-2008 |
20080213019 | Process for Producing Rfid Labels - The invention relates to a method for producing an RFID label using a printing method. The aim of the invention is to apply the required parts to the label in a simple manner, and preferably also to protect the antenna from mechanical damage. To this end, at least part of the antenna required for the operation of the label and part of the oscillating circuit is applied to the stock by means of sheet-fed offset printing or directly or indirectly by means of a relief-printing plate. In order to protect the oscillating circuit from damage, the application surface thereof is lowered, or the oscillating circuit and the antenna are lowered into the stock after the application process. | 09-04-2008 |
20080213020 | AUTOMATED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY GENERATING CUSTOMIZED TYPESET QUESTION-BASED DOCUMENTS - The present invention generally relates to a system and method for dynamically generating customized, typeset publication quality question-based documents, such as examinations, answers and/or worked out solutions in a portable document format. More particularly, the system and method of the present invention enable users to select questions from a catalog of questions previously encrypted, loaded, and stored on a server. Additionally, the user is able to specify the sequence of the selected questions and insert heading and preamble information. Software components process this information to generate an examination document in a typeset portable document format, wherein the examination document includes the selected questions in the specified sequenced and heading and preamble information. The software concomitantly generates answer and worked-out solutions documents corresponding to the questions in the examination document. All generated documents are encrypted and stored on the system and are available for downloading. | 09-04-2008 |
20080213021 | Print Engine Controller For A Pagewidth Printer With A Four-Stage Print Pipeline - Provided is a print engine controller for a printer having a pagewidth printhead. The controller includes a serial interface, a JPEG decoder, a fax decoder, a halftoner/compositor unit, a tag encoder, a line loader/formatter unit, and an interface to the pagewidth printhead. These components together define a print control pipeline. | 09-04-2008 |
20080219736 | On-Demand Printing of Coding Patterns - A technique is provided to enable reproduction of a high-precision code symbol, which comprises a mark with a given location with respect to a reference point, using a comparatively low-resolution printing device which is arranged to apply dots of marking material in a resolution grid on a substrate. The resolution gris is defined by the dot resolution of the printing device and is composed as a two-dimensional array of dot-receiving cells. To enable the reproduction, the printing device is provided with data that represents the code symbol. Further, the printing device is controlled, based on the data, to reproduce the code symbol by arranging the reference point of the code symbol inside one of the dot-receiving cells and by applying at least one dot of marking material on the substrate. | 09-11-2008 |
20080219737 | Hand Held Printer Having A Doppler Position Sensor - A hand held printer for printing on a print medium includes a body. A printhead is fixedly mounted to the body of the hand held printer. A Doppler position sensor is mounted to the body. A controller is communicatively coupled to each of the printhead and the Doppler position sensor. The controller executes program instructions to read a velocity signal received from the Doppler position sensor and processes the velocity signal to determine a position of the printhead on the print medium relative to at least one of a first axis and a second axis. | 09-11-2008 |
20080219738 | CREATION OF CUSTOMIZED TRANSACTIONAL CARDS - Customized transactional cards are created in one of various ways. The card holder may obtain a blank transactional card already having an encoded account number, create a customized design, and then apply the customized design to the blank transaction card such as by printing the design onto a label to be applied to the blank transactional card or directly onto the card. The card holder may obtain a blank transactional card which has not yet been authorized with an account number, create a customized design, apply the customized design to the transactional card, and at some point send the transactional card to the card issuer where it can be authorized by having an account number applied to it and then returned to the card holder. The card holder may access a web site to create a customized design and then the card issuer creates the transactional card according to the customized design and sends the transactional card having an encoded account number to the card holder. | 09-11-2008 |
20080226372 | Systems and Methods for Determining Media Size - In one embodiment, a system and method pertain to measuring the length of media using a first sensing system of the printing device to obtain a first length value, measuring the length of the media using a second sensing system of the printing device to obtain a second length value, and calculating a scale factor that can be applied to measurements made by the first sensing system to increase the accuracy of those measurements, wherein the scale factor is calculated relative to the first and second length values. | 09-18-2008 |
20080232882 | Printed Medium Management Apparatus - A printed medium management apparatus includes: a controller that outputs print data generated from file data, and outputs tag data comprising search data including a search word; a print unit that prints an image based on the print data on a recording medium equipped with a non-contact tag; a data recording unit that records the tag data on the non-contact tag; and a search unit that wirelessly communicates with a plurality of non-contact tags, on which search words are recorded by the data recording unit, to search for a non-contact tag on which an inputted search word is recorded. | 09-25-2008 |
20080232883 | High-frequency RIFD printer - There is disclosed a printer having a print head and a high frequency magnetic coupler to magnetically couple with high frequency RFID transponders in a web at or near the print head. The coupler couples magnetically to only one transponder at a time that is generally aligned with one or more inductors, and magnetic radiation from the inductor(s) may be at least partly shielded from upstream transponders, and a grounded conductor in the upstream side of the coupler diminishes radiation to upstream transponders. One embodiment includes spaced inductors disposed along a generally transverse line across the web, and in another embodiment an elongate inductor extends along a line generally transverse of the web. | 09-25-2008 |
20080232884 | METHOD FOR PRINTING ONTO COLOURED SUBSTRATES - A method for printing an electronic image comprising a plurality of pixels onto a substrate using a computer-assisted image processing system, said method comprising the step of using alpha channel information in combination with substrate color information to calculate the transparency level that needs to be applied to each pixel. | 09-25-2008 |
20080232885 | Systems and Methods for Creating Customized Activities - Embodiments of the present invention include systems and methods for creating customized activities. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method comprising storing a plurality of activity records, storing a plurality of text elements, storing a plurality of template letters with fillable fields, receiving a plurality of customized text elements from a user and a selection of an activity record, associating template letters with the activity, and associating text elements and customized text with the activity to generate customized correspondence. For example, in one embodiment a print control document is generated for printing customized mailers. In one embodiment, the system receives a message and encodes the message. The message may be the location of a hidden gift, for example. The print control document may include the encoded message and the encoded message is included in at least one of the mailers. | 09-25-2008 |
20080232886 | Label tape, label tape cartridge, and label producing apparatus - A tag label producing apparatus has a cartridge holder for setting a first roll configured by winding a base tape equipped with identification marks, which include marks formed by two black strips and arranged with a pitch 2Pp and marks formed by one black strip and arranged with the pitch 2Pp, at a plurality of portions, a feeding roller driving shaft that feeds the base tape supplied from the first roll attached to the cartridge holder a print head that makes a predetermined print on the base tape or a cover film to be bonded thereto, and a mark sensor that detects the identification mark on the base tape, and controls the feeding roller driving shaft and the print head in coordination with each other in accordance with the detection result of the identification mark by the mark sensor. | 09-25-2008 |
20080232887 | OUTPUT SYSTEM, PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINTING DEVICE MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND PRINTING DEVICE, PRINT INSTRUCTION PROGRAM, PRINTING DEVICE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM AND PRINTING DEVICE CONTROL PROGRAM, AND PRINTING METHOD - An output system having an output device that performs output based on output data so that the output device performs the output after having acquired authentication. In the system, an operating state controlling unit outputs a power-save-cancel command for causing a power-saving state to be changed into an active state to a power-save switching unit after a device having an output data storing unit acquires the output data, and a transition-to-power-save command for causing the state to be changed from the active state to the power-saving state is outputted to the power-save switching unit when the output process of the output data is completed by an output process completion detecting unit. | 09-25-2008 |
20080240828 | APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING RFID LABELS, CARTRIDGE FOR INCLUDING AT LEAST A RFID TAG, AND RFID LABEL MANUFACTURING SYSTEM - An apparatus for producing RFID labels includes a feeding roller drive shaft configured to feed a base tape provided with a plurality of types of RFID circuit elements having an IC circuit part storing information and a tag antenna and corresponding to each of a plurality of types of communication frequency, and an antenna configured to perform information transmission and reception using the plurality of types of communication frequencies with respect to the plurality of types of the RFID circuit elements of a tag label tape with print being fed, and when a RFID label production command for producing a RFID label is input from an operation terminal, a central control part control in coordination so that the plurality of types of RFID labels using the plurality of types of RFID circuit elements, respectively, corresponding to the command is produced in a lump sum. | 10-02-2008 |
20080240829 | PRINTING COLORIMETRIC INSTRUCTION METHOD AND PRINTER - A printing calorimetric control device of the present invention is configured to comprise a reception section which receives a designation for a colorimetry position on a predetermined image; a printing control section which prints an image on a print medium on the basis of image data which represent the predetermined image; a determination section which determines a position when a colorimetry section is caused to perform colorimetry on the predetermined image printed on the print medium on the basis of the designation; a conveyance section which conveys the print medium for which printing has been completed on the basis of the position thus determined; and a colorimetric control section which acquires a colorimetry value of the colorimetry position of the designation by causing the colorimetry section to execute colorimetry on the basis of the position thus determined. | 10-02-2008 |
20080247799 | THERMAL PRINTER HEAD WITH PRINT CONTROL DEVICES - A thermal printer head and print control device capable of controlling what is printed onto a voucher, which includes a printer head and an image control sensor placed in an upper part of the printer head, and including an electronic card on a control unit and cables for connecting the image control sensor to the electronic card and the control unit. | 10-09-2008 |
20080267681 | IMAGE PRINTING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PRINTING METHOD - An image printing apparatus includes a lottery drawing unit that draws a lottery on the basis of data included in image data to be printed; a maximum-number determining unit that determines whether the number of winners drawn by the lottery drawing unit is less than or equal to a maximum number of winners indicated by data; a storage unit that stores a frame in accordance with a lottery result obtained by the lottery drawing unit; and a printing unit that prints the image data and the frame in a superimposed manner. When the number of winners is determined to be less than or equal to the maximum number of winners, the lottery drawing unit draws a lottery on the basis of data included in image data to be printed. The printing unit prints the image data and the frame in accordance with a lottery result in a superimposed manner. | 10-30-2008 |
20080286023 | Method and System for Rfid Label Printing - The present invention relates to a RFID label printing system, comprising a label printer with a printing control panel, an antenna, a RF read-write module and a RFID label with loop, and a read-write interface and non-volatile memory. And a method for RFID label printing with comprises the steps of: A1) configuring printing contents; A2) acquiring printing contents by the printer control panel; A3) the RF read-write module communicating with RFID label in terms of RF signal via antenna; A4) the loop sensing the RF information, and writing information into the non-volatile memory via the read-write interface. The RF chip is installed on the label, the RF read-write module is configured on the printer, when printing label, user may read and write RF chip via the RF read-write module to stick RFID label with various information and data on the goods and merchandises, and it is convenient for the flow of goods and merchandises. A USB interface is also provided on the RIFD label printer, the label printer may read information stored in external USB storage via the USB interface, for convenience, user can transfer the label contents edited on the computer host to the printer via the USB storage. | 11-20-2008 |
20080286024 | Image Data Generating Device, Tape Printer, Printing System, and Computer Program - Provided herein is an image data generating device generates a plurality of pieces of divided image data to be printed on each tape segment to form a printed image by putting a plurality of tape segments together on which a divided printed image being a part of the printed image larger than the width of each tape segment is printed, and includes: a display unit that displays a state where the printed image and the plurality of tape segments are overlapped and arranged; a tape-arrangement specifying unit that specifies an arrangement angle of each tape segment displayed on the display unit; a printed image allocating unit that allocates the divided printed image to each tape segment based on a specification made by the tape-arrangement specifying unit; and a divided image data generating unit that generates a plurality of divided image data based on a result allocated by the printed image allocating unit. | 11-20-2008 |
20080292380 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DATING ITEMS TO BE REFRIGERATED OR STORED - An apparatus and associated method for dating items to be refrigerated or stored, wherein the apparatus includes a display, controller buttons for selecting a desired label to be printed, a built-in printer capable of printing labels exiting from a cartridge holding the labels. The apparatus includes the ability to print the current date and time along with text indicia designating certain food types or symbol indicia representative of various food types such as beef, poultry, pork and fish. | 11-27-2008 |
20080292381 | Printer and computer-readable recording medium storing printing program - A printer includes a connection device that connects to an external device, a printing device that prints a character on a print medium, an input device that inputs the character and an instruction, and a first data acquisition device that acquires first data created in the external device via the connection device. The printer further includes a print history storage device that stores print history information of the first data and a second data used for printing by the printing device among the first data acquired by the first data acquisition device and the second data created based on the character and the instruction inputted by the input device. The printer also includes a print control device that causes the printing device to perform printing based on the print history information stored in the print history storage device. | 11-27-2008 |
20080298868 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - Provide an image forming apparatus that improves precision in adjudicating the type of the recording medium while also minimizing the time required to make such an adjudication. To accomplish this, the image forming apparatus includes a storage unit that stores a plurality of types of particular shape images that configures a two-dimensional bar code. The image forming apparatus forms a measurement pattern image for measurement, which includes one or more of the particular shape image, upon an image carrier and reads in the measurement pattern image that is formed upon the image carrier. The image forming apparatus determines a difference between a shape of the particular shape image that is included in the measurement pattern image and a shape of the particular shape image that is stored in the storage unit and subsequently determines an image forming condition with regard to the particular shape image stored in the storage unit. | 12-04-2008 |
20080304891 | BARCODE GENERATION SYSTEM, BARCODE GENERATION PROGRAM, AND PRINTING DEVICE - A barcode generation system that generates an appropriate barcode, which satisfies the usage condition of each user, quickly and with a minimum consumption of ink and paper. A test chart is printed on a printing device | 12-11-2008 |
20090003914 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADJUSTING SIZE OF OBJECT INCLUDED IN PRINTING TARGET TO BE PRINTED AT PREDETERMINED REDUCTION RATIO - A method and apparatus for adjusting the size of an object included in a printing target to be printed according to a reduction ratio, the method including: calculating at least one of a width and height of the object; and when the calculated width or height of the object is 0, the object width or the object height is changed to a predetermined value, and the changed value is set. By doing so, when the printing target to be printed according to the reduction ratio is printed, a phenomenon in which the object does not appear on a print medium is prevented. | 01-01-2009 |
20090041524 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD - The present invention provides a system for printing material information along with two-dimensional coded images which are obtained by converting minutes data blocks and which are to be added to the material information. Specifically, after the material information is obtained from an information processing apparatus and the minutes data blocks obtained using a web camera are received, a minutes data block is extracted from among the minutes data blocks at a predetermined timing. Then, the extracted minutes data block is converted into two-dimensional coded information. The two-dimensional coded information is printed on a corresponding one of a plurality of pages of the material information. | 02-12-2009 |
20090067910 | Label printer, computer program for the label printer, and computer program - A memory stores a data set which includes printing data and RFID data to be output to a label which includes a RFID tag, and a controller executes control to convey a label sheet, on which a label including a RFID tag is affixed, on a conveying path where a RFID reader/writer is positioned at an upstream side and a printer is positioned at a downside side, executes control to write information to a RFID tag included in a second label positioned upstream of a first label on the conveying path based on RFID data included in a data set corresponding to the second label, then, executes control to print on the first label based on printing data included in a data set corresponding to the first label. | 03-12-2009 |
20090087243 | WRITING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, LABEL CREATION SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM THEREOF - A writing apparatus includes a reading unit that reads, from a paper sheet having plural labels embedded with wireless IC elements, each including a wireless communication unit and a storage unit storing data that is transmitted and received via the wireless communication unit, identification information to identify a set of pieces of information to be written respectively into the plural wireless IC elements; an acquisition unit that acquires a set of pieces of information to be written respectively into the plural wireless IC elements, based on the identification information read by the reading unit; and plural writing components that are provided corresponding to the plural wireless IC elements and write plural pieces of information to be written acquired by the acquisition unit into the plural wireless IC elements, respectively. | 04-02-2009 |
20090123206 | MARKING SENSOR AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING MARKINGS - A marking sensor includes a detection unit for detecting markings on a processed material and for acquiring data based on the detected markings, at least one circuit output for outputting the acquired data, an evaluation unit for determining absolute output data on the detected markings based on the data acquired by the detection unit, and an interface for outputting the absolute output data; also a method is used for evaluating markings on a processed material that are detected by a detection unit, data are acquired based on the markings, and they may be output at least one circuit output and transferred to an evaluation unit in a marking sensor, in the evaluation unit, absolute output data on the detected markings are determined based on the data acquired by the detection unit, and the absolute output data on the detected markings is output at an interface of the marking sensor. | 05-14-2009 |
20090162123 | PLATEN INCORPORATING AN RFID COUPLING DEVICE - Provided is an apparatus, such as a printer, that includes a media modification component, such as a printhead, and an opposing member, such as a platen. The opposing member opposes the media modification component and is configured to manipulate media for modification by the media modification component. An RFID interrogator including an electromagnetic coupler, such as an antenna, can be associated with the opposing member, for example, by disposing the electromagnetic coupler within a bore defined by the opposing member. In some embodiments, the interrogator and the media modification component can be in communication with a control system that can be configured to correlate a media modification operation of the media modification component with either or both of a signal emitted by or received by the electromagnetic coupler. | 06-25-2009 |
20090190987 | Label Supply and a Label Printer - A supply for a label printer comprising of an image receiving medium for receiving an image and tags for receiving digital information. | 07-30-2009 |
20090208268 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING PRINTED PRODUCTS - A method for producing at least one printed product, the method including conveying the printed product to a processing apparatus, wherein the printed product includes a detectable identification code. The method further includes supplying the printed product to at least one tool of the processing apparatus and processing the printed product with the at least one tool. The processing includes detecting data, with a reading device, from the detectable identification code on the printed product and transmitting the data to a control unit. The processing further includes controlling, by the control unit, the at least one tool to process the printed product in dependence of the transmitted data. | 08-20-2009 |
20090232571 | Printing apparatus and printing method with respect to medium - A user operates the operation panel portion | 09-17-2009 |
20090238625 | CREATION AND PLACEMENT OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL BARCODE STAMPS ON PRINTED DOCUMENTS FOR STORING AUTHENTICATION INFORMATION - A document authenticating method is disclosed by which numerous small-sized two-dimensional barcode stamps are generated and placed in a distributed manner on a printed document. The small-sized barcode stamps collectively encode the content of the document to be used for document authentication. In one example, the stamp size is about ¼ by ¼ inches or less and the tile size for the stamps is 4 by 4 pixels at a resolution of 400 dpi. The document is segmented into segments each containing a paragraph or a line of text. For each segment, a set of barcode stamps encoding the authentication data for the segment is placed in the vicinity of the segment. They may be placed in the empty space in the last line of each paragraph, in the empty space between adjacent paragraphs, or at the beginning or end of each line. | 09-24-2009 |
20090238626 | CREATION AND PLACEMENT OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL BARCODE STAMPS ON PRINTED DOCUMENTS FOR STORING AUTHENTICATION INFORMATION - A document authenticating method is disclosed by which numerous small-sized two-dimensional barcode stamps are generated and placed in a distributed manner on a printed document. The small-sized barcode stamps collectively encode the content of the document to be used for document authentication. In one example, the stamp size is 1 cm by 1 cm and the tile size for the stamps is 4 by 4 pixels at a resolution of 400 dpi. A total of approximately 80 such small barcode stamps are placed on the page to form a pattern that resembles a border on one or more sides of the page. In one particular example, the stamps are placed on all four sides of the page to form a frame. Such a stamp layout minimizes undesirable visual effect and can create a decorative effect. Small-sized stamps also allow reduced tile sizes and increased information density. | 09-24-2009 |
20090274504 | Modular RFID Imaging Device Option - A device, method, system and article for controlling an image forming device including removable RFID functionality. A print job may be received and a determination may be made as to whether the print job includes RFID data. The RFID data may be sent to a removable RFID module when RFID data is included in the print job. Media may then be provided to a first paper path defined in the removable RFID module when RFID data is included in the print job and provided to a second paper path defined in the image forming device. An image may then be formed on the media. | 11-05-2009 |
20090324313 | Method and apparatus for operating a printer - A system and apparatus for printing configured to estimate a value of a required feed length for an intended printing operation. The printing operation is performed as a function of a comparison between the sum of an actual value of a previously consumed feed length of the print media unit and the estimated value of the required feed length for the intended printing operation at a predefined maximum feed length of the print media unit. In the event the printing operation is executed, the previously consumed feed length us updated as a function of the estimated value of the required feed length. | 12-31-2009 |
20100014904 | Documentation Apparatus and Tape Printing Apparatus - A documentation apparatus includes: a selection unit which selects one function item from plural function items associated with documentation and selects one choice from plural selects included in the selected function item; a memory unit which stores the function item selected last and a non-selection candidate other than the selection candidate selected in the function item; and a function execution unit which performs function corresponding to the stored non-selection candidate by predetermined operation of the selection unit. | 01-21-2010 |
20100040399 | TAPE PRINTING APPARATUS - A tape printing apparatus including an input, a display, a processor arranged to control the display in response to an input received by the input, the display being controlled to have a first area providing text information to assist a user to create a label, and a second area displaying an image to be printed on said label. | 02-18-2010 |
20100047001 | MULTI-FUNCTION DEVICE ARCHITECTURE - Embodiments of the present invention provide a multi-function device including a housing, a printing assembly disposed within the housing, the printing assembly being configured to print a document, and a copying assembly comprising a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor and an illumination source disposed within the housing, the copying assembly further including a substantially flat transparent surface disposed in an optical path of the CMOS image sensor, the substantially flat transparent surface to support an object for image capture by the CMOS image sensor, wherein the illumination source is configured to provide illumination during image capture. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. | 02-25-2010 |
20100054835 | MOVABLE MEMBER DRIVE CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD AND PRINTING APPARATUS - Provided is a movable member drive control device including: a drive unit for driving a movable member; a position detection unit for detecting the position of the movable member; a drive control unit for controlling the driving of the drive unit in accordance with the position of the movable member, detected by the position detection unit; and a determination unit for determining whether or not vibration of the movable member is reduced by the drive control unit. | 03-04-2010 |
20100080642 | Printer For Printing Pattern Input From Collection - A printer is provided having a data capture device for capturing the identity of identifiers carried by a printed collection of patterns, the printed identifiers uniquely identifying each pattern of the collection, a processor storing the collection of patterns in digital form, each stored pattern being identified by said identities, and a printhead configured to receive patterns from the processor for printing and to print a pattern upon print media corresponding to the pattern having the identity captured by the data capture device. | 04-01-2010 |
20100119278 | Handheld Printer Assembly With A Removably Attached Accessory - A printer assembly is disclosed that comprises a printer mechanism and a printer housing. The printer housing has a head end and a body portion, and the body portion includes input keys for controlling the printer mechanism. The printer assembly further comprises an accessory removably attached to the head end, and the accessory includes at least one functional component that is operable independent of the printer mechanism. | 05-13-2010 |
20100166475 | TAPE PRINTER - A tape printer includes a tape cassette including a housing, a cassette housing portion, a feeding device, a printing device, a plurality of detecting switches that protrude toward a side surface of the housing of the tape cassette installed in the cassette housing portion, a first determining device that, if a part of the detecting switches is pressed, determines that the tape cassette is installed, and a second determining device that, if a specific detecting switch among the detecting switches is pressed, determines that the tape cassette is not installed at a proper position. The tape cassette includes a first pressing portion that, if the tape cassette is installed at the proper position, presses a part of the detecting switches, and a second pressing portion that, if the tape cassette is not installed at the proper position, presses the specific detecting switch. | 07-01-2010 |
20100172680 | PRINTER CONTROL METHOD - A method for controlling a printer to carry out a printing operation. The method comprises, at a controller device, receiving first input data comprising data for identifying said printer and establishing a connection between said controller device and said printer in response to said first input data. Data for use in said printing operation is assembled and said assembled data is provided to said printer via said established connection. | 07-08-2010 |
20100172681 | IMAGE FORMATION DEVICE AND SUPPORT BODY - An image formation device is provided with an image formation section, an image acquisition section, a paper supply cassette and a support body. The image formation section forms images at a recording medium and is supported at a base surface. The image acquisition section is disposed at an upper side of the image formation section. The paper supply cassette is disposed at a lower side of the image formation section and can be drawn out to a near side. The support body supports the image acquisition section at the base surface and forms a cassette cavity which is capable of accommodating a far side of the paper supply cassette. | 07-08-2010 |
20100189488 | MARKING OBJECT AND MARKING APPARATUS - A marking object having at least one object blank ( | 07-29-2010 |
20100196075 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING PROOF OF PAYMENT FOR "PAY-AS-YOU-GO" MULTI-FUNCTION DEVICES - A method and system is provided including a plurality of multi-function devices being operatively associated with at least one controller. Each of the plurality of multi-function devices having time staggered payment support capabilities for enabling at least one user continued access to the plurality of multi-function devices. A detecting module is provided for enabling the plurality of multi-function devices to automatically detect, inspect, and verify at least one authorization code located on incoming print jobs. The method and system enable the at least one user to pay for continued access to the plurality of multi-function devices via time staggered installments without one or more of the plurality of MFDs directly accessing a payment center via a network connection and without manually supplying the at least one authorization code to the plurality of multi-function devices. | 08-05-2010 |
20100209166 | Recording device, recording method, and program - A recording device that duplicates contents recorded in a first recording medium on a detachable second recording medium includes: selection means for selecting duplication subject contents to be duplicated on the second recording medium among the contents recorded in the first recording medium; duplicating means for duplicating the selected duplication subject contents on the second recording medium; generation means for generating label surface information that indicates contents recorded in the second recording medium after the duplication subject contents are duplicated thereon and is to be printed on a label surface of the second recording medium; and print control means for causing the generated label surface information to be printed on the label surface of the second recording medium. | 08-19-2010 |
20100209167 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING CONTROL METHOD - A printing method of printing an image corresponding to one frame by using inks of a plurality of colors applied to an ink ribbon allows a printing apparatus to print one image on continuous paper by using inks corresponding to a plurality of ink surfaces. When printing one print image by using a plurality of ink surfaces on an ink ribbon, the printing apparatus sets an area in the print image to be printed by one ink surface on the ink ribbon, by dividing the print image. The printing apparatus then prints one print image by using a plurality of ink surfaces on the ink ribbon based on the set area. | 08-19-2010 |
20100266321 | PRINTING APPARATUS, CONVEYANCE APPARATUS, AND FEED-CONVEYANCE CONTROL METHOD - This invention relates to an apparatus and method capable of appropriately preventing a printing medium from being diagonally conveyed upon feed regardless of changes in printing medium feed conditions. In this invention, the maximum output value of a PWM signal is compared with the sum of a predetermined bias value and the PWM signal when a sensor detects the tip of a fed printing medium. If the sum is smaller than the maximum output value, it is monitored that the value of the PWM signal increases by the bias value. If the sum is equal to or larger than the maximum output value, it is monitored that the conveyance speed of the printing medium becomes smaller than a predetermined threshold value. Control is performed on the basis of the monitor results to stop driving a DC motor that supplies a driving force to rollers used for feed and conveyance. | 10-21-2010 |
20100303531 | Printing Device for Printing of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Labels - Disclosed is a printing device for printing Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) labels. The printing device includes an input media drawer configured to receive a plurality of RFID labels including RFID tags and an RFID label processing mechanism operatively coupled to the input media drawer. The RFID label processing mechanism includes a radio system for providing a signal for processing of the at least one RFID tag received from the input media drawer, and an antenna module coupled to the radio system for processing the at least one RFID tag based on the signal received from the radio system. The antenna module includes a transmission line including serially connected, a first set of horizontal legs and a second set of vertical legs. Further, the printing device includes a printing mechanism operatively coupled to the RFID label processing mechanism for printing the RFID labels. | 12-02-2010 |
20100316426 | PRINTING CONTROL APPARATUS, PRINTING CONTROL METHOD, AND PRINTING CONTROL PROGRAM - A method for controlling printing control apparatus for printing an image on any of a plurality of recording media each set in a plurality of storage units includes inputting a plurality of print jobs, and determining an execution order of the plurality of print jobs in a range in which printing is consecutively executed on the recording medium fed from the same storage unit based on a type of the recording medium corresponding to each of the input plurality of print jobs, and in which each of the input print jobs is not postponed more than a predetermined condition. | 12-16-2010 |
20100329764 | TAPE CASSETTE - A tape cassette that includes a housing having a top surface, a bottom surface, a front surface and a pair of side surfaces, a tape that is a print medium housed in the housing, a tape exit that discharges, from the housing, the tape guided in the housing along a predetermined feed path, at least a part of the feed path extending parallel to the front surface, and a type indicator portion provided adjacent to the tape exit and in a specified area of the front surface on an upstream side of the tape exit in a feed direction of the tape, the type indicator portion indicating a type of the tape and including vertical information sections and a protrusion formed in at least one of the vertical information sections, the vertical information sections being strip-shaped sections extending along a direction orthogonal to the feed direction. | 12-30-2010 |
20110002723 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DISCRIMINATING LIGHT-SCRIBE DISC - A method for discriminating a light-scribe disc includes reading the media ID of the disc, comparing the read media ID with media IDs on a table by the bit searching method, discriminating the media ID with the same bit form from the table, setting the operating parameters of the media ID as the operating parameters of printing label, and waiting for a command to print the label to enhance efficiency. | 01-06-2011 |
20110052295 | LABEL PRINTING DEVICE AND LABEL PRINTING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a label printing device connected to an external device includes a reading unit, a printing unit, and a controller. The reading unit is configured to read management data. The printing unit is configured to print a label image on a recording medium based on printing data corresponding to the management data. The controller is configured to determine whether the printing data corresponding to the management data exists in a storage region. If the printing data exists in the storage region, the controller is further configured to control the printing unit to print the label image on the recording medium using the printing data. | 03-03-2011 |
20110064503 | PRINTING DEVICE - A printing device for printing labels having a memory for storing one or more character sets, each character set including at least a principle character and an additional character which is associated with the principle character; a user input having character selection keys for selecting a character set to define an image to be printed by the printing device; and a controller for accessing characters from the memory to be displayed and printed which correspond to characters selected at the user input means; wherein actuation of a character selection key selects the principle character in the selected character set and maintaining activation of the character selection key for a predetermined time period selects the associated additional character. | 03-17-2011 |
20110070010 | System and Method for Controlling a Multi-Drive Printing Press - A system and method are provided for controlling a printing press including a plurality of print units and, optionally, a folder. Each print unit has one or more cylinders, a motor for driving the cylinders; an encoder for providing a cylinder position signal, a controller coupled to the encoder, the motor, a bus which interconnects each of the controllers and an input port for designating the controller as either master or slave. Any one of the controllers is selectively set as a master controller and the remaining controllers are set as slave controllers. The master controller generates a control signal based on a signal from the input port and outputs the control signal to the motor via the output port and to the slave controllers via the bus. Each of the slave controllers outputs a signal on the respective output port based on the received control signal. | 03-24-2011 |
20110076079 | HEAT SEAL MACHINE WITH OPEN THROAT - A press is described having an upper platen. The press includes one piece base for support an upper rotatable support arm and a lower cantilever support arm. The upper support arm is adapted to selectively move the upper platen between an open position, a partially open position and a closed position with respect to a lower platen. A lower cantilever support arm configured to provide an open working surface around a lower platen. A sliding mechanism disposed on the base to selectively move the lower platen to an open, partially open or closed position. | 03-31-2011 |
20110081187 | PRINTING DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING PRINTING DEVICE - Provided is a printing device including: a transport unit configured to transport a sheet-shape printing medium; a printing unit configured to print an image on the printing medium transported by the transport unit; a shape detection unit configured to detect the shape of edges of the printing medium; a position detection unit configured to detect the positions of the edges when an image is printed on the printing medium by the printing unit; and a first determination unit configured to determine the attitude of the printing medium based on the shape of the edges detected by the shape detection unit and the positions of the edges detected by the position detection unit, | 04-07-2011 |
20110116853 | METHOD FOR ADJUSTING COLOR TONES OF PRINTED MATTER - Provided is a method for adjusting color tones of a printed matter. The method includes a displaying step of displaying an image of a printed matter on a display apparatus ( | 05-19-2011 |
20110123243 | Image forming apparatus - As one embodiment, in an image forming apparatus ( | 05-26-2011 |
20110135367 | TAPE PRINTER, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TAPE PRINTER, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A tape printer which prints an image based on an entered character string on a tape member to be attached to an object to be sent, the tape printer comprising: a keyboard that accepts an entry of a first character string indicating a destination, and an entry of a second character string indicating sender information; an image generating section that generates a first image representing the destination based on the first character string, and a second image representing the sender information based on the second character string; and a printing section that prints the first image and the second image on the tape member. | 06-09-2011 |
20110142519 | TAPE PRINTER, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TAPE PRINTER, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A tape printer printing an image on a tape, the tape printer includes: an operation accepting section accepting an entry operation; a display section performing screen display based on the entry operation accepted by the operation accepting section; an illuminating section illuminating the display section; a control section controlling the operation of the tape printer; and a printing section printing the image based on an entered character string on the tape, wherein while the printing section performs printing based on the entry operation, the control section switches a mode to the first power-saving mode in which the illuminating section is turned off. | 06-16-2011 |
20110170924 | System and Method for Populating and Printing Paper Ballots - Systems and methods for populating and printing paper ballots are provided. The system includes a voter interface module configured to receive a voter selection of options from a list of options on a voter interface and a ballot definition module configured to create a ballot definition which associates each option on a ballot with a respective position on a two dimensional grid. A ballot generation module uses the ballot definition module to determine the position for each option selected by the voter and controls a printer to print a paper ballot having a two dimensional, machine readable grid with markings at the determined positions corresponding to the voter selected options received at the voter interface module. | 07-14-2011 |
20110170925 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSEMBLING MAIL PIECES - Prior to assembling mail pieces of which at least a number each comprise a main document and at least one insert of at least one type, one or more mini image files are stored, each defining a mini image of at least a part of a type of insert. The mini image of the respective insert defined by the mini image file is printed on each envelope for a mail piece including that type of insert for one or each of a number of the inserts. | 07-14-2011 |
20110170926 | PRINTING CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS - This invention relates to a printing control method and apparatus, a computer program product, and the like in which printing data is held in a hierarchical structure and a printing job is issued to a printer to cause the printer to print. In the printing control method according to the present invention, different setting values can be set in the lower and upper layers of the hierarchical structure as printing setting data containing double-sided printing or single-sided printing setting. When a setting value different from that of the upper layer is set in the lower layer of the hierarchical structure, the printer is instructed on a setting in the lower layer for each printing data to which the setting value is applied. | 07-14-2011 |
20110211892 | PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD - A print control apparatus having a decision unit, a print control unit, and a determination unit. The decision unit decides a print order for duplex printing on a continuous sheet. The print control unit causes the print unit to execute a continuous print of first face images on a first face and second face images on a second face after completion of the print on the first face in accordance with the decided print order. In a case where the determination unit determines that an interruption factor occurs before the completion of the print on the first face, the print control unit performs switches to a print on the second face and to cause the print unit to execute a print of any second face image that is predetermined to be arranged on the second face relative to any first face image already printed on the first face. | 09-01-2011 |
20110211893 | PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS AND PRINT CONTROL METHOD - A print control apparatus may include a determination unit and a print control unit. The print control apparatus causes a printing unit to perform duplex printing on a continuous sheet and the determination unit determines whether a continuous sheet usable by a first print job is the same as a continuous sheet usable by a second print job. If the determination unit determines that the two continuous sheets are the same, the print control unit perform controls to, cause the printing unit to continuously print images of the first print job to be arranged on a first surface of the continuous sheet and images of the second print job to be arranged on the first surface and thereafter cause the printing unit to print images of the first print job and the second print job to be arranged on an opposite surface of the continuous sheet. | 09-01-2011 |
20110217106 | INFORMATION OUTPUT APPARATUS, LABEL PRINTER AND INFORMATION OUTPUT METHOD - An information output apparatus includes a reception part, a determination part and an information output part. The reception part receives identification information of a product. The determination part reads a content of a nutrient contained in the product having the identification information received by the reception part from a storage part, compares the read content of the nutrient with a reference value indicating a display allowable range in which a display relating to the content of the nutrient may be performed, and determines whether the display relating the content of the nutrient may be performed for the product. When it is determined that the display relating the content of the nutrient may be performed for the product, the information output part outputs information relating to the content of the nutrient. | 09-08-2011 |
20110222946 | TAPE PRINTER, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TAPE PRINTER, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A tape printer having a large-size printing function of printing an enlarged printing image which is larger than the tape width of a long tape into a plurality of tape parts, includes: a tape width detecting section detecting the tape width; a layout determination section determining enlargement layout information for forming the enlarged printing image; a margin determining section determining the widths of an upper margin and a lower margin of the enlarged printing image in the tape width direction and determining whether or not each width is equal to or greater than the tape width; an image data generating section generating image data of the enlarged printing image; and a printing section sequentially printing, on two or more tape parts respectively, the image data of the enlarged printing image other than a tape part corresponding to a margin which is equal to or greater than the tape width. | 09-15-2011 |
20110229237 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A printing apparatus includes an input unit, a holding unit, a printing unit, sheet stacking units, a storage unit, a sheet feeding unit, a detection unit, a determination unit, a request unit, a receiving unit, and a control unit. The sheet feeding unit feeds a sheet to be used by the printing unit when executing a specific print job, from a specific sheet stacking unit stored in the storage unit in association with attribute information included in the specific print job. When the determination unit determines that a remaining number of sheets stacked in the specific sheet stacking unit will run short by finishing the specific print job, the requesting unit requests an operator's instruction for changing sheet attribute information included in the specific print job. The control unit changes the sheet attribute information per the operator's instruction. | 09-22-2011 |
20110236105 | PRINTING CONTROL APPARATUS AND PRINTING CONTROL METHOD - A printing control apparatus may execute printing on a continuous sheet by using a printing unit. The printing control apparatus includes a reversal unit, an input unit, and a printing control unit. In executing printing by the printing unit on both surfaces of the continuous sheet, the reversal unit reverses the continuous sheet to execute printing on a second surface after executing printing on a first surface. If the printing on the first surface currently is being executed by the printing unit to execute two-sided printing of a preceding job based on a preceding job in a case where an instruction for interruption printing is input by the input unit, the printing control unit executes the interruption printing according to the instruction subsequent to the printing on the first surface of the continuous sheet based on the preceding job, and supplies the printed continuous sheet to the reversal unit. | 09-29-2011 |
20110236106 | TAPE PRINTING SYSTEM AND TAPE PRINTING METHOD - A tape printing system includes a control apparatus and a tape printer, wherein the control apparatus includes an image data generating section generating character strings and/or image data, and an image data transmitting section transmitting the generated character strings and/or image data to the tape printer, and the tape printer includes a processing pattern storing section storing a processing pattern for each tape type, the processing pattern of processing the character strings and/or image data to printing image data, a tape type determining section determining the tape type of a printing tape, an image data receiving section receiving the character strings and/or image data from the data transmitting section, a printing image data generating section generating printing image data by processing the received character strings and/or image data based on the processing pattern, and a tape printing section printing the generated printing image data on the printing tape. | 09-29-2011 |
20110236107 | PRINTING CONTROL APPARATUS AND PRINTING CONTROL METHOD - To execute printing on a continuous sheet by using a printing unit, a printing control apparatus includes a reversal unit, an input unit, and a printing control unit. The reversal unit reverses the continuous sheet to execute printing on a second surface of the continuous sheet after executing printing on a first surface of the continuous sheet. The input unit inputs an instruction for executing an interruption print job while executing printing by the printing unit. If instruction for executing the interruption print job is input while the printing of a two-sided print job on the continuous sheet has been currently executed, the printing control unit suspends the two-sided print job, causes the printing unit to execute the interruption print job, and resumes processing of the two-sided print job on the continuous sheet that has been held by the reversal unit after the interruption print job is completed. | 09-29-2011 |
20110243628 | REUSABLE CLING DECALS FOR PLASTIC TOYS, BUILDING BRICKS, AND ACCESSORIES AND SYSTEM FOR CUSTOMIZING - A reusable decal system for use with building bricks, toys, and accessories made of plastic or other similar substance, which includes flexible cling decals and a non-porous backing sheet and a system for customizably designing and printing images on the cling decals. The cling decals are cut in a plurality of shapes and printed with a plurality of designs as to form windows, doors, signs, vehicle parts, animals, people, letters, numbers and symbols for the purpose of creating customized play sets, building brick creations, toys, and accessories. In use, the cling decals are peeled from a backing sheet and applied to the plastic building bricks, toys, or accessories in a variety of configurations. The cling decals can be reused in different or changed plastic building brick creations, other plastic toys, or other plastic accessories. | 10-06-2011 |
20110255911 | System And Method For Switching Registration Control Modes In A Continuous Feed Printer - A method enables a printing system to be operated in one of two registration control modes. The method includes operating at least one marking station with reference to a first velocity measurement of a web moving along a web path in response to a first registration control mode being active, the first velocity measurement corresponding to an angular velocity signal obtained from only a first roller in a web path, and operating the at least one marking station with reference to a second velocity measurement of the web moving along the web path in response to a second registration control mode being active, the second velocity measurement corresponding to at least two angular velocity signals obtained from at least the first roller and a second roller in the web path. | 10-20-2011 |
20110268486 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREFOR - Disclosed are an image forming apparatus and an image forming method for, in the halted state where trial copying of one set is completed, determining whether a mode has been changed, and for automatically changing a numeral accordingly. According to the present invention, an image forming apparatus comprises: an image input device, for entering an image; a storage device, for storing the image; an image forming unit, for reading the image from the storage unit and for forming the image; and a controller, for providing control for the image forming unit in accordance with a mode set for an image copying process, wherein a function is provided that can set a trial copying mode for an image forming process and can copy one set when the trial copying mode is effective, and that can thereafter temporarily halt the image forming process and enable a mode reset, and wherein for a copying operation performed after the trial copying mode is released, a numeral can be set to a predetermined value in accordance with a mode change effected during a halted state existing immediately before the copying. | 11-03-2011 |
20110280640 | System and Methods to use context graphs for targeting communications - This disclosure provides a system and method to use context graphs for targeting communications to a user of an image rendering device. According to one exemplary embodiment, the method provides targeted communications generated as a function of one or more attributes associated with a user requested printed document. The attributes are provided by accessing a context graph including a plurality of links between a plurality of entities. | 11-17-2011 |
20110293345 | MEDIA ADVANCE WITH VOIDING OF SENSITIVE SUBSTRATES - Methods and systems herein provide for securely advancing continuous form media including pre-printed sensitive elements. A command is identified for advancing the media without imprinting on the sensitive elements. A security image is identified for voiding the sensitive elements. The security image is then imprinted on the sensitive elements as the media is advanced to void the sensitive elements. Embodiments include detecting a Non Process Run Out (NPRO) command at a printer for advancing the media without imprinting the sensitive elements, and imprinting the security image onto the sensitive elements as the media is advanced to void the sensitive elements. Further embodiments include detecting that a print job includes a blank logical page for advancing the media without imprinting the sensitive elements, and imprinting the security image onto the sensitive elements as the media is advanced to void the sensitive elements. | 12-01-2011 |
20110311287 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY CONTROLLING THE SEQUENCE OF PROCESSING ORDERS FOR PROCESSING MATERIAL CONTAINERS - In a method or system for automatic controlling of jobs to be processed, the jobs to be associated with input and output material bundles, the jobs to be processed are collected into multiple groups or clusters. The groups or clusters are automatically sorted according to rules. The input material bundles are fed to a processing device at a central station, at least one post-processing apparatus being connected to and down stream from the processing device. | 12-22-2011 |
20120063831 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM THEREOF - The printing apparatus discharges, to a discharge unit, the sheet bearing the image printed by the print operation. The printing apparatus controls to execute sample printing according to accept a sample printing request during the print operation, and discharge a page obtained by the sample printing to a discharge destination different from the discharge unit. The printing apparatus discharges, to a second discharge location different from a first discharge location, a sheet subsequent to the sheet discharged to the first discharge location, according to accept the sample printing request during a print operation during which the sheet discharge unit discharges a sheet to the first discharge location of the discharge unit. | 03-15-2012 |
20120063832 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Processing time for switching discharge destinations can be reduced by providing a first acquisition unit configured to acquire a first parameter indicating a number of middle sheets included in one set of carbonless copy paper set in a sheet feed tray, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire a second parameter indicating a number of middle sheets included in one target product, and a control unit configured to, if the second parameter is greater than the first parameter, print on a top sheet and a middle sheet needed for printing a print job, discharge a bottom sheet and a top sheet and a middle sheet included in a next set that are not needed for printing the print job to a discharge destination different from a discharge destination of the target product, and to print on a middle sheet and a bottom sheet needed for printing the print job. | 03-15-2012 |
20120070216 | PRINTING DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING PRINTING DEVICE - A printer device connects a plurality of stations each having a plurality of data transmission control units which perform data transmission for respective colors of C, M, Y, and K received from an upper level device, and prints transmitted image data of the respective colors. The transmission of image data received from the upper level device is performed to be thinned out in a raster unit in accordance with the number of stations by a plurality of data transmission control units, which controls image data of the same color, from among a plurality of data transmission control units of each of a plurality of stations. A sheet conveying speed is determined in accordance with the number of stations, and the determined conveyance speed is allocated on a conveyance control unit when sheet conveying starts. | 03-22-2012 |
20120076560 | PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD - In order to prevent a printing process from clogging by reason of being incapable of discharging a sheet to a discharge destination in the case of duplex printing on a continuous sheet, the number of pages to be printed continuously on the same side of the sheet is decided so that the number of required discharging destinations conforms to the number of available discharge destinations. Then, according to the decision, printing on the same side of the sheet is performed, and the sheet is discharged to the respective discharge destinations. | 03-29-2012 |
20120076561 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONDENSATION REMOVAL METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREOF - A data processing apparatus includes: a reception unit configured to receive from a user an instruction for performing condensation removal in the data processing apparatus; a determination unit configured to determine whether a condition necessary to perform the condensation removal is satisfied; and a condensation removal unit configured to, in a case the determination unit determines that the condition is satisfied, according to the instruction received by the reception unit, perform the condensation removal in the data processing apparatus. | 03-29-2012 |
20120076562 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes a recording portion which executes recording on a medium, a feeding portion which feeds the medium to the recording portion, a discharge portion on which the medium on which the recording has been executed is discharged, a base portion which holds the recording portion, the feeding portion, and the discharge portion, an exterior member which covers at least a portion of the base portion, an information input portion which instructs to execute the recording, a pair of holding portions which are provided on the base portion, bridge the information input portion, hold the information input portion on the base portion, and a fixing mechanism which fixes the information input portion to the pair of the holding portions in an axial direction of the information input portion. | 03-29-2012 |
20120099912 | TAPE PRINTING APPARATUS - A tape printing apparatus, comprising a port for connecting to external apparatus; a first memory for storing label data defining at least one label; and a second memory comprising program information. | 04-26-2012 |
20120107030 | PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus includes: a receiving section which receives a print data from the external apparatus; a storage section in which the print data received by the receiving section is stored; an input section which receives from a user a print instruction for printing based on the print data stored in the storage section; a print section which performs the printing of the image on the recording medium based on the print data stored in the storage section in a case that the input section receives the print instruction from the user; and a controller which controls the storage section and which calculates and sets for the print data stored in the storage section a storage time-period within which the print data is storable in the storage section. | 05-03-2012 |
20120148323 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINT CONTROL SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PRINT CONTROL SYSTEM - A host computer transmits a plurality of print data pieces to which an identical password is added to a printing apparatus. The printing apparatus includes a unit configured to receive and store one of the transmitted plurality of print data pieces, an operation unit configured to accept input of a password from a user, an image formation unit configured to perform, when the password input from the user and the password added to the stored print data match each other, image formation based on the print data to which the identical password to the input password is added, and a control unit configured to cause, when it receives the remaining one of the transmitted plurality of print data pieces after the image formation has been performed, the image formation unit to perform the image formation based on the remaining print data without making the user input the password again. | 06-14-2012 |
20120155945 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A printing apparatus prints on a printing medium based on print data from at least one host apparatus; stores print information associated with a printing operation except for print data in a first storage unit; performs, by a power supply unit, first control to supply power to the first storage unit and second control to stop power supply to the first storage unit; stores, in a second storage unit which receives power supply from the power supply unit regardless of the first control or the second control, the print information stored in the first storage unit when the printing apparatus changes from the first control to the second control; and when the printing apparatus receives a request from the host apparatus to obtain the print information after changing to the second control, transmits the print information stored in the second storage unit to the host apparatus. | 06-21-2012 |
20120163891 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, IMAGE OUTPUT SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus or an image output system includes a main image forming section for imposing a plurality of jobs and thereby generating at least one piece of main image data, and an interleaf image forming section for generating an interleaf image depending on the jobs of the main image data and generating interleaf image data including the interleaf image. | 06-28-2012 |
20120163892 | PRINT APPARATUS - A print apparatus includes a print-medium sender configured to send out a print medium, a print-medium transportation unit disposed downstream of the print-medium sender in a print-medium transportation direction, and configured to transport the print medium, a print unit disposed between the print-medium sender and the print-medium transportation unit, and configured to perform printing on the print medium while moving in a direction perpendicular to the print-medium transportation direction, and a transport-amount correction controller configured to correct the amount of transportation of the print medium by the print-medium sender or the print-medium transportation unit in accordance with the position of an end of the print medium. | 06-28-2012 |
20120183340 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD - A printing apparatus of this invention includes a printing unit that executes print processing for a sheet, and feeding units that respectively store sheets conveyable to the printing unit. The printing apparatus identifies a sheet to undergo print processing, based on obtained print job data, and searches the feeding units for a feeding unit storing the identified sheet. The printing apparatus, when it detects the feeding unit storing the identified sheet, controls the printing unit to execute print processing based on the print job data for the sheet fed from the feeding unit, and when it cannot detect the feeding unit storing the identified sheet, executes avoiding processing regarding the print processing. | 07-19-2012 |
20120201587 | PRINTING OPERATION ASSISTING DEVICE - A printing operation assisting device for assisting a printing operation performed by a solder printer configured to print a solder cream on a substrate surface, including: a measure determining portion configured to determine a remedial measure against a deterioration of a print quality specified on the basis of print-result information obtained from an inspecting machine configured to inspect a print result by the printer, in accordance with a kind of the print-quality deterioration; and a measure issuing portion configured to issue a command relating to the remedial measure determined by the measure determining portion to at least one of the printer and its operator, wherein the measure determining portion is configured to determine a remedial measure against a certain print-quality deterioration and to redetermine another remedial measure different from the previously determined remedial measure where the deteriorated print quality is not improved by execution of the previously determined measure. | 08-09-2012 |
20120213569 | PRINT CONTROL DEVICE SETTING DIRECTION OF MAIN SCANNING - A print control device includes a processor operating as a determining unit and a direction setting unit. The determining unit determines that a condition is satisfied for a boundary block when an index value of the boundary block indicates that an estimated amount is larger than a first value, and that the condition is satisfied for an internal block when an index value of the internal block indicates that the estimated amount is larger than a second value. The second value is larger than the first value. The direction setting unit sets, for each part data, a direction of main scanning to a specific direction when the part data includes the block that satisfies the condition. The direction setting unit sets the direction of main scanning to a direction opposite to a previously set direction when the part data does not include the block that satisfies the condition. | 08-23-2012 |
20120219339 | MAXIMIZE PRINTER COMPONENT LIFE USING INCOMING MEDIA AND IMAGE DATA - A method and structure of automatically selecting replacement components for a printing machine automatically maintains media type statistics on media types used for printing in the printing machine for a period of time, and automatically recommends a replacement for a worn component with one of a plurality of interchangeable different-type replacement components based on the media type statistics. The interchangeable different-type replacement components have different performance characteristics for each of the media types, and the interchangeable different-type replacement components perform the same function as said worn component within the printing machine. | 08-30-2012 |
20120219340 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING LONG, CONTINUOUS FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATES - An apparatus and method is described that allows accurately registered, high resolution patterning of thin films on discrete lengths of flexible substrate material that are unwound from a drum and after processing are rewound onto another drum. Discrete lengths of the substrate - are clamped to a chuck and the chuck moved in a direction parallel to the length of the substrate. Accommodating units are provided for accommodating length changes in the substrate both upstream and downstream of the chuck. A processing head is moved across the width of the substrate when clamped to the chuck and pattern formation is by one, or a combination, of laser ablation, laser exposure or ink jet printing using either or both subtractive and additive processes. | 08-30-2012 |
20120257917 | Print Quality Verification System - A method, programmed medium and system are disclosed which provide for an in-line scanner used to dynamically scan a document or image, real-time as it is being printed within a printer unit and before the printed document exits the printer. The scanned image is compared to a stored electronically-generated image of the file being printed. When the comparison is determinative that there is a printing problem, the printing operation may be stopped quickly before the partially printed document or image has exited the printer. An error message may then be displayed, and the user is enabled to take appropriate action. A resume function enables a user to resume a print job at exactly the place where it had left off before detecting a print problem. In another embodiment, when the system detects a problem with a print job, the entire print job of the remainder of the print job is sent from the faulting printer to another printer where either the remainder of the print job or the entire print job is completed. | 10-11-2012 |
20120263512 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, PRINTING DEVICE, AND MEDIUM HAVING RECORDED IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - To provide a technique for outputting printing image data to a printing device using a colored ink, and a special glossy ink having special gloss, including a field discrimination part for discriminating whether there is an adjacent field, in which a special glossy field that is expressed using the special glossy ink and a color production field that is expressed using the colored ink are adjacent in the direction of the image plane; a special gloss boundary processor for adjusting the image data so that the ink volume of the special glossy ink affixed to the special glossy field is gradually reduced from the special glossy field towards the color production field in a case where an adjacent field is present; and an output part for outputting the printing image data based on the adjusted image data the printing device. | 10-18-2012 |
20120269564 | MECHANISM FOR LABELING LABORATORY PRINT MEDIA - A method for labeling laboratory media may include generating, at a printer, a request to label a laboratory media. The laboratory media including a media cassette or a media slide that is used to hold one or more laboratory samples. The method may further include directing, in response to the request, a laser to label the laboratory media by generating an image on a portion of a surface of the laboratory media. The directing may be based on information retrieved from the request. | 10-25-2012 |
20120288312 | LABEL PRODUCTION SYSTEM AND LABEL PRODUCTION METHOD - A label production system producing labels for affixation to one or more types of products successively produced in an industrial production line. The label production system includes a printer for printing on and cutting a medium, wherein the medium includes a first sheet and a second sheet laminated onto the first sheet, and wherein the printer includes an ink head for printing on the second sheet of the medium and a cutter for cutting at least the second sheet of the medium. A computer controls the printer to produce at least one label for each of one or more products produced in the production line by controlling the printer to print on and cut a contour on the second sheet of the medium. | 11-15-2012 |
20130004223 | PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINT DATA GENERATING DEVICE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING PRINT DATA GENERATING DEVICE AND PROGRAM PRODUCT - A printing system includes: a control device configures to generate print data; and a printer configured to print the print data transmitted from the control device on a tape, wherein the control device includes a status information acquisition section for periodically acquiring status information including a tape width of the tape loaded in the printer, a display section for displaying an editing screen of the print data and the status information, and a display control section for performing a display control of the display section, and the display control section performs display control of the display section to display a present tape width based on the latest status information acquired, as the status information, on the display section. | 01-03-2013 |
20130028646 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR, PRINTING SYSTEM, METHOD FOR PRINTING AND RECORDING MEDIUM - In a sheet collection planned to be prepared, when there exists a monochrome sheet group comprised of one or more consecutive monochrome sheets all of whose front and back sides are monochrome pages, between two color sheet groups comprised of one or more consecutive color sheets having a color page on at least one of front and back sides, an information processor determines that sheets in the monochrome sheet group and each one or each two sheets before and after the monochrome sheet group sandwiching the monochrome sheet group are saddle-stitched sheets formed by papers for saddle-stitching. The information processor determines that any sheet other than those determined to be the saddle-stitched sheets are sheets of an adhesive bound group. | 01-31-2013 |
20130058695 | HEAT SINKING - A printed circuit assembly includes a printed circuit board, a heat generating component attached to the printed circuit board at a first location, a formed conductive substrate including a protrusion extending toward the printed circuit board corresponding to the heat generating component, and a thermally conductive pad disposed between the printed circuit board and the protrusion of the formed substrate. The formed conductive substrate is configured to flex the protrusion to relieve stress at the heat generating component attachment. | 03-07-2013 |
20130078022 | OPERATING A SELECTIVELY INTERCONNECTED MODULAR PRINTING SYSTEM - A method for operating a selectively interconnected modular printing system is disclosed. The method includes providing a selectively interconnected modular printing system that is responsive to an operational preference setting and associated configuration information for each module; communicating the associated configuration information for the selectively interconnected modules to a system controller; and using the system controller to automatically determine operational parameters based on the associated configuration information. The method further includes determining a set of operational preferences from the operational parameters; selecting at least one operational preference setting; using the system controller to determine specific operational parameters based on the selected operational preference setting; and storing the specific operational parameters so that the modular printing system is effective for operation. | 03-28-2013 |
20130094889 | PRINTING CONTROL METHOD APPLIED TO PRINTING APPARATUS AND RELATED PRINTING APPARATUS - A method of controlling a printing apparatus is provided. The method is utilized for printing on a plurality of print media, and there are intervals between the print media. The method determines a starting reference point for printing on a print medium. The method includes generating a predicted interval position according to a interval reference position and an period average corresponding to an average width of a single print medium and an average width of a single interval; calculating a difference between a measured interval position and the predicted interval position; generating an error compensation value according to a compensation operation and updating the reference interval position by adjusting the reference interval position according to the error compensation value if the difference value is not greater than a threshold value; and controlling the printing apparatus to print by updating the predicted interval position according to the updated reference interval position. | 04-18-2013 |
20130101328 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRE-PRINT INK USE ESTIMATION - An image representation of an image and printing specifications describing how the image is to be printed may be accepted at a device. A predicted ink drop count may be calculated by a processor in the device using the image representation and a printer imaging step, the printer imaging step to convert image data into printer data. A predicted ink use value may be calculated by processor based on the predicted ink drop count, predicted ink drop weights, the image representation (e.g., a histogram) and the printing specifications. Actual ink use during a printing operation may be measured. | 04-25-2013 |
20130108345 | IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMATION SYSTEM, AND PRINT CONTROL PROGRAM | 05-02-2013 |
20130114985 | CONTROLLING EXIT VELOCITY OF PRINTED SHEETS BEING STACKED TO OPTIMIZE STACK QUALITY - Methods and devices determine the media properties of a sheet of media exiting a printing device. The methods and devices apply the media properties to a predetermined velocity equation to calculate a corresponding sheet exit velocity for the sheet of media that will optimize stack quality in a particular output tray. Then, the methods and devices change process controls sheet movement elements within a media path of the printing device to cause the sheet of media to exit the printing device at the sheet exit velocity. | 05-09-2013 |
20130164067 | CARRIAGE ROLLER BAR POWER PROFILE - A printer is disclosed. The printer has a carriage that holds at least one print head. The printer measures the power used by a motor that drives the carriage along a roller bar during a printing operation. The printer displays an error message when the power used by the motor exceeds a threshold. | 06-27-2013 |
20130177343 | Tri-State Detector - Provided herein are devices, systems, methods and various means, including those related to printer systems and, more particularly, relate to methods, apparatuses, systems and other means for monitoring a printer ribbon. Some embodiments use a multi-element detector, which is configured to detect a particular type of light emitted from a light emitter. The multi-state detector can include two sensors, one of which includes a polarizer filter that blocks polarized light. Embodiments can be used to determine, among other things, whether or not a printer ribbon is installed in a printer without the use of a snap plate. | 07-11-2013 |
20130216290 | Label Printing Device and Process for Using the Same - Disclosed is a label printing device and a method of using the device to label objects with time and date information. For example, the label printing device may be used to label food with time and date information. The label printing device is configured to provide a simple means of labeling. Illustrative configurations of the label printing device provide a primary print effectuator, e.g. a button, so that user input requirements are minimized. | 08-22-2013 |
20130243509 | PRINT LABEL PRODUCING APPARATUS - This disclosure discloses print label producing apparatus comprising a controller, a memory including a first sub memory, a second sub memory, and a third sub memory, and the controller being configured to execute a decoration setting process to perform at least one of a first sub decoration setting process for setting a decoration style randomly, a second sub decoration setting process for setting a frame randomly, and a third sub decoration setting process for setting a symbol randomly, a first print data generating process for generating first print data, by means of including at least one or more results of the decoration setting process of any of the decoration style of one or more types randomly set, the frame of one type randomly set, or the symbol of one type randomly set, and a first coordination control process for controlling the feeder and the printing head. | 09-19-2013 |
20130287464 | DETERMINING THE PRINT PATH OF A PRINTING DEVICE - System and methods are disclosed for determining the print path of a printer to facilitate manual duplexing. The method includes instructing a printing device to print a first object on a first side of a test sheet and then instructing a user to reinsert the test sheet in the printing device. The printing device is then instructed to print a second object on the test sheet. The user can further provide information indicating a location of the second object with respect to the first object. Based on the information, the printing path of the printer is determined. | 10-31-2013 |
20130336697 | PRINTING ON ALTERNATIVE PRINT MEDIA WHEN PREFERRED MEDIA IS UNAVAILABLE - When an insufficient quantity of a preferred print media is installed in a selected printing device, methods and systems automatically output an insufficient-print-media notice and one or more reconfiguration options for proceeding with printing the print data on one of the installed print media types. In response, a selected reconfiguration option is received that identifies an alternative print media to be used in place of the preferred print media when executing the print request. Additional processing is performed to print the print data on the alternative print media including: automatically resizing the print data to fit on the alternative print media; automatically printing a cutline on the alternative print media to indicate where the alternative print media should be cut to be reduced to the preferred print media; and automatically formatting multiple pages of the print data to print on one page of the alternative print media. | 12-19-2013 |
20130336698 | PRINTING CONTROL APPARATUS AND PRINTING CONTROL METHOD - An apparatus includes an input unit and a printing control unit to cause a printing unit to execute printing on a continuous sheet. The input unit inputs an instruction for printing by the printing unit. The printing control unit causes the printing unit to execute printing according to a second job subsequent to printing on a first surface of the continuous sheet based on a first job, wherein the instruction input by the input unit may include a first job that is a two-sided printing and a second job that is a one-sided printing, or a first job that is a one-sided printing and a second job that is a two-sided printing. A supplying unit is controlled to supply the printed continuous sheet to a reversal unit which reverses the continuous sheet to execute printing on a second surface after executing printing on a first surface of the continuous sheet. | 12-19-2013 |
20140037353 | CORRUGATED PAPERBOARD SHEET PRINTING DEVICE, CORRUGATED PAPERBOARD SHEET BOX MAKING MACHINE, AND MANAGEMENT DEVICE FOR CORRUGATED PAPERBOARD SHEET BOX MAKING MACHINE - Provided is a corrugated paperboard sheet printing device which includes a conveyance device for conveying a corrugated paperboard sheet fed out from a sheet feeding device, while suckingly holding the sheet; a plurality of printing units for printing the sheet through a series of printing processes; an information generator for generating basis weight information indicative of a basis weight of a corrugated paperboard sheet in each order; a storage device for storing therein a plurality of correction information for correcting a plurality of printing timings at each of which a respective one of the plurality of printing units performs the printing process on the sheet, in association with the basis weight information; and a controller for, based on the correction information, correcting the printing timing in each of the printing units, and causing the printing unit to operate according to the corrected printing timing. | 02-06-2014 |
20140037354 | PRINT CONTROL METHOD AND CONTINUOUS SHEET FOR USE THEREIN - When a plurality of images is printed on both the surfaces of a continuous sheet, an optimum scheduling is carried out including maintenance of a print head, thereby suppressing amount of consumption of a sheet as a whole. For such a purpose, acquiring information regarding on which of the first and second surfaces and where on the surface of the continuous sheet a unique portion exists, the unique portion is unsuitable for image printing that exists on the continuous sheet; and setting, based on the acquired information, a print unavailable region including the unique portion and a maintenance region posterior thereto on a specific sheet surface having the unique portion existing thereon, and another print unavailable region and a maintenance region posterior thereto on a reverse side of the specific sheet surface, the another print unavailable region being set so as to include a region corresponding to the maintenance region. | 02-06-2014 |
20140050512 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISCHARGING A MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus is capable of placing a line feed operation on hold. A memory holds an amount of line feed and discharge direction information. A controller parses the printer control data, and detects the position of the print medium based on the detection signal. An image forming section prints on the print medium while transporting the print medium. When the discharge direction information indicates a direction opposite to a direction in which the print medium is line fed. When the position of a final printed area on a page of print medium is within the page of the print medium, if a line feed is performed, the controller adds a new amount of line feed to the amount of line feed in the memory, and then places the resultant amount of line feed on hold. | 02-20-2014 |
20140199105 | PRINTING APPARATUS, TAPE PRINTING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR PRINTING APPARATUS - The continuous printing unit prints the input data with a margin length of the input data to be printed adjacent to each other among the plurality of input data set to a predetermined length without using the margin information respectively included in the input data to be printed adjacent to each other. | 07-17-2014 |