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6666602 Method and apparatus for controlling print media shape during media transport  
A method and apparatus is described for feeding a print media through a closed, curved path such that any abrasion of any special coating on the printing surface of the media is prevented. A motor...
6663238 Lamination apparatus and recording apparatus  
A laminating apparatus includes a lamination object conveying unit for conveying an object, a laminating film conveying unit for conveying the laminating film, and a heating-pressurizing unit for...
6659603 Ink jet recording method and apparatus having platen with extrusions positioned in one-to-one correspondence with roller nips  
An ink jet recording apparatus, which records with deposition of ink droplets onto a recording medium by use of an ink jet recording head, includes a platen for supporting a recording medium in a...
6655275 Multi-color printing device having ink and laser printing units  
A printing press has a conveying path for a paper web formed by rollers and has at least one high performance printing unit arranged at the conveying path, a plurality of ink jets or multi-color...
6652089 Duplex inkjet printing system  
A recess-mountable printer having a housing with a top, a base, a pair of sides, a back and a front. The front of the housing has a paper ejection slot which is designed to facilitate the ejection...
6652090 Recess mountable printing system  
A recess-mountable printer having a housing with a top, a base, a pair of sides, a back and a front. The front of the housing has a paper ejection slot which is designed to facilitate the ejection...
6652091 Image forming device  
A recording device includes a guide protruding from and retracting toward a platen and a discharge support protruding from and retracting toward the guide. With this arrangement, the process for...
6648469 Paper-discharging system and method in an inkjet printer  
A paper-discharging system of an inkjet printer includes a first roller part discharging a paper horizontally after the paper is printed by the printing head, an upward-guiding part guiding the...
6644656 Paper feeder  
A paper feeder including a platen roller for feeding paper sheet supplied from a manual paper supply opening to a printing section and conveying the same after printing again to the manual paper...
6644801 Ink jet recording apparatus  
An ink jet recording apparatus includes a transporting roller for transporting a recording sheet to a recording section of the apparatus; a pre-biasing roller disposed upstream of the transporting...
6634745 Image forming apparatus  
An image forming apparatus forms an image on a recording medium by discharging ink from a recording head. The apparatus has ejection rollers for causing the recording medium to move at a position...
6634744 Ink-jet printer  
An ink-jet printer comprises: a recording head to eject ink through a nozzle; a conveying element located so as to face the recording head and conveying a recording medium onto which an image is...
6634818 Feeder, image-forming device, and remaining amount detecting method  
An object of the present invention is to provide a feeder, image-forming device, and remaining amount detecting method that allows a user to simply and effectively determine upon issuing a print...
6628423 Dummy sheet placed on rotary drum of image recording apparatus  
An image recording apparatus comprises a rotary drum for attracting a recording medium to the surface thereof on which a plurality of through holes are formed, the rotary drum for attracting the...
6626110 Apparatus for printing on sheet material  
An apparatus for printing on sheet material is set-up in a modular fashion having physically added modules, particularly having modules stackable one on top of another, each module including a...
6619795 Ink jet recording apparatus  
An ink jet recording apparatus comprises a recording area where a recording sheet is conveyed substantially in a horizontal direction to a position opposite to a discharge port for discharging ink,...
6619792 Printing mechanism  
A printing mechanism comprises a printhead that defines a printzone, and a tray adapted to support at least one sheet of print media. The tray is adapted to move through the printzone during...
6619796 Starwheel actuation timing for print media transport system and method  
A print media transport assembly for advancing a print media through a print zone includes a primary drive roller rotatably mounted on an entry side of the print zone and a pinch roller rotatably...
6619202 Printing machine with plural printing sections and printing method  
A method and machine for printing is disclosed as having a housing, a plurality of printing sections mounted in the housing configured to execute printing operation on the basis of given data, a...
6616361 Ink jet recording apparatus  
An ink jet recording apparatus using ink to be discharged from a plurality of ink discharge ports of a recording head comprises a holding unit for holding the recording head for recording on a...
6612762 Printer  
The present invention is intended to provide an economical printer which is simple in structure and uses a common tray but is capable of adapting itself to various recording media of different...
6609791 Ink jet type image forming device  
Between adjacent pinch rollers 22 , an auxiliary roller 44 is provided coaxially with the pinch rollers 22 . A large diameter portion 44 a of the auxiliary roller 44 presses down a...
6609792 Data transmission element for use in an ink-jet printer  
An ink-jet printer in which drive data for a print head is converted into a light signal by a first light-emitting diode provided in a control circuit. The light signal is transmitted, through an...
6604820 Ink-jet type image forming device  
An ink-jet type forming device comprising a suction fan ( 11 ) for sucking from below a platen ( 12 ), a print medium ( 14 ) that is being conveyed on the platen ( 12 ), and a variable controller...
6601952 Recording apparatus  
A recording apparatus includes a conveying device for conveying a recording medium, a recording rotary unit in which a recording device for recording an image on the recording medium and a...
6599043 Control method for sheet member conveying apparatus and control method for recording apparatus  
In a sheet member conveying apparatus having a roller for conveying a sheet member, a motor for driving the roller, a driving transmitter for transmitting a driving force of the motor to the...
6582039 Combination color inkjet and laser image-printing device with dual paper-picking mechanism and method of implementing same  
An image-printing device includes a dual paper-picking device that has two independent means of pulling sheets of paper or other print medium from a supply and feeding the same to the...
6582072 Linefeed control in belt-type printers  
Described are techniques for preventing the forces attributable to shrinkage of print media from shifting print media on the media-carrying belt in the vicinity of the print zone. In one approach,...
6578944 Image-recording device recording image on sheet in recording mode that is appropriate to type of sheet  
An image-recording device records a high-quality image on a surface of a sheet by altering recording parameters for a one-side recording mode and a two-sided recording mode, for instance, a path...
6575555 Printing apparatus and substrate feeding system particularly useful therein  
A printing apparatus for printing on a substrate is provided. The apparatus includes a substrate feeding system for feeding the substrate through a printing station in the apparatus and a printing...
6575546 Ink jet printer, ink jet printing method and continuous recording sheet  
An ink jet printer forms an image frame in a continuous recording sheet at a size PL with reference to a feeding direction. The continuous recording sheet includes plural recording sheets, and a...
6568803 Print media handling and ejection system  
An inkjet printer includes an inkjet cartridge having a printhead at which ink is ejected onto a media sheet, and a substantially horizontally slidable support adjacent to the cartridge. The...
6568865 Ejected paper receiving unit for large printer and large printer equipped with the same  
A fulcrum shaft 61 and a recessed sheet member 64 , which together constitute an ejected paper receiving unit that is rotatable force forward and backward within a range extending from a front...
6567187 Printing apparatus and feeding control method  
A printing apparatus has high reliability both in manual feeding and in automatic feeding of a printing medium, and a feeding control method controls the printing apparatus. In the case of manual...
6565183 Ink jet recording apparatus  
An ink jet recording apparatus includes a conveying device for conveying a recording sheet, a first recording device for discharging ink to a first surface of the recording sheet conveyed by the...
6565182 Aerodynamic fairing structure for inkjet printing  
A printing device is provided which includes ink-dispensing structure which carries a printhead with a leading edge, and which moves in a printing sweep downstream across a printzone, a fairing...
6561642 Ink jet printer system for printing an image on a web overlaying a removable substrate and method of assembling the printer system  
Ink jet printer system for printing an image on a web overlaying a removable substrate and method of assembling the printer. The ink jet printer system comprises an ink jet print head for jetting...
6561641 Precision writing line control platen for high resolution ink jet printing  
An ink jet printer jets ink onto a section of a front side of a print medium. The ink jet printer includes an ink jetting printhead facing the front side of the print medium. A media support...
6554417 Recording medium conveying device and an ink jet printing device using the same  
A recording medium conveying device for an ink jet printing device comprises an active roller, a starwheel and an elastic cantilever beam, so that when the starwheel presses against the active...
6554416 Image forming apparatus  
An image forming apparatus according to the present invention comprises a medium-conveyance device having a conveyance surface that moves at a speed V, and a plurality of liquid ejecting heads...
RE38092 Image forming apparatus  
An image forming apparatus includes a paper feed station from which sheets can be fed from a plurality of roll sheets only by placing the roll sheets in the station, a recording station for...
6550908 Printing module for two printing substrates and distributors equipped with modules of this type  
A printing module includes a prism-shaped frame ( 8 ), two of its adjacent faces ( 10 A, 10 B) each defining a guiding path for a printing substrate ( 3 A, 3 B), the forward movement of the...
6550882 Ink jet printing apparatus  
In an ink jet printing apparatus that performs printing by using an ink and a processing liquid that renders the ink insoluble, an effect the mist of the processing liquid or substances...
6550904 Ink printing method and ink printer  
There are provided a plain paper mode in which printing is performed on a plain paper and a special medium mode in which printing is performed on a special printing medium having a coat layer...
6550907 Recording apparatus  
A recording apparatus includes a recording section, a convey section, and a discharge section. The invention further includes an urging device for urging a pinch roller against a recording sheet,...
6536895 Ink-jet printer  
An ink-jet printer includes a rotary drum 10 , having a dielectric peripheral surface 11 , for rotating at a constant speed, a sheet loader 90 for loading a sheet to the rotary drum 10 , a...
6536896 Media feed assembly with double pinching rollers  
An assembly for feeding media associated with a printer or other media manipulating device includes a feed roller and first and second roller support members that rotatably mount first and second...
6529220 Method and apparatus for forming image with image recording liquid and dummy liquid  
An image recording liquid obtained by changing a mixing proportion of a plurality of recording liquids based on an image signal is transferred as a continuous flow to an image receiving medium to...
6520634 Image forming apparatus with heat treating of recording material  
An image forming apparatus having a recording head and a recording medium conveying apparatus for conveying the recording medium from one position to another position. The recording medium...
6517200 Transport buffer having force limiting drive means and method  
A buffer for transporting a flexible work piece such as a printed sheet between a first and a second workstation having different operational speeds. The buffer has drive rollers arranged along a...