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8139095 Recording apparatus and conveyance method  
In a recording apparatus, an ink ribbon is always placed under a tension by a stop torque of a torque limiter while a take-up bobbin is driven through the torque limiter when recording paper is...
8115791 Tape printing apparatus  
A printing apparatus that receives a supply of an image receiving medium and includes a platen arranged to feed the image receiving medium selectively in one of a forward and reverse direction. A...
8085286 Printing method and apparatus  
A method of printing an image onto a substrate including the steps of providing a substrate, a print head, and a carrier between the print head and the substrate; providing a backing roller; urging...
8081201 Thermal transfer printer  
A thermal transfer printer according to the invention includes at least one printing unit for thermal transfer printing with a print head via a ribbon having a dye layer; a first bending member for...
8018477 Transferred medium  
A transferred medium is provided. In one exemplary embodiment a transferred medium includes a projection part projected in a transferring direction. The projection part can be integrally formed at...
8011774 Azo dye, colored composition, heat-sensitive transfer recording ink sheet, heat-sensitive transfer recording method, color toner, inkjet ink and color filter  
An azo dye represented by formula (1): wherein, R11 represents a monovalent substituent, R12 represents a hydrogen atom or a monovalent substituent, Ar1 represents a specific heterocyclic group...
7956881 Printing apparatus and printing method  
A printing apparatus includes a takeup reel driving motor which, after printing, takes up an ink ribbon to eliminate a slack in the ink ribbon. The printing apparatus includes a control device for...
RE42088 Printer  
A printer includes a supply shaft wound with unused film including contrast agent, a winding shaft wound with used film including used contrast agent, rotation-speed detector for detecting a...
7864205 Heat-sensitive transfer image-forming method  
A heat-sensitive transfer image forming method, containing: superposing receptor layer side of image-receiving sheet and dye layer side of ink sheet, making a thermal head contact with the sheets...
7864206 Thermal transfer laminate film, thermal transfer sheet, and image-forming apparatus  
A thermal transfer laminate film includes a base film, a non-transferable release layer made of a rubber-elastic resin and disposed on one side of the base film, and an image-protecting layer...
7791627 Printer  
A ribbon supply shaft drive motor (8) and a ribbon take-up shaft drive motor (10) are drivingly controlled separately. If the state of a ribbon is not changed after a control cycle is repeated for...
7675534 Printer with short print-to-print cycle times  
A receiver medium transport system for a thermal printer, a method for operating a receiver medium transport system and a thermal printer are provided that enable the recording of at least a...
7651287 Printer device having ink ribbon cartridge with protection plate for thermal head  
A printer device is disclosed. The printer device includes: a base chassis that accepts therein and ejects therefrom the printing medium; a top chassis that is disposed to be able to freely open...
7639269 Printer and ink sheet  
A printer transfers to one image formation area a plurality of single colors of ink repeatedly arranged in a longitudinal direction of the ink sheet, to thus produce in an image formation area of...
7559642 Sheet material conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus  
A sheet material conveying apparatus for conveying a sheet material under attraction to a conveying belt has an attraction unit for attracting the sheet material to the conveying belt, and which...
7556445 Thermal activation device and method of conveying sheet material  
A thermal activation device has a thermal activation head that thermally activates a heat-sensitive adhesive layer of a sheet material having a printing layer on one surface of a sheet-like base...
7439995 Method and apparatus for laser induced thermal transfer printing  
An apparatus and method for providing substantially intimate rolling contact between a portion of a donor sheet and a portion of an acceptor element in a laser-induced thermal transfer printer...
7423663 Printer apparatus  
An object of the invention is to provide a printer apparatus which can perform printing to the whole surface of a recording sheet with no margin while print quality is not lost. A configuration of...
7417656 Compact printer  
A compact printer that includes a sensor system for monitoring the position and/or status of media is provided. The system includes a photo source extending along a line across all or a portion of...
7400337 System and method for efficient donor material use  
In a first aspect of the invention, a method is provided for operating a thermal printer adapted to print images by transferring donor material from patches of donor material from a donor ribbon...
7349002 Thermal transfer film and thermal transfer printing apparatus  
A card printing apparatus includes an information recording unit for printing an image to a card medium having at least a rewrite printing region capable of repeatedly coloring and deleting of...
7309178 Image formation device  
An image formation device (facsimile machine, printer, copier, etc.) is provided, which is capable of reducing the amount of ink ribbon rolled up for the removal of slack of the ribbon. When a...
7226226 Printing apparatus  
A printing apparatus (10) includes a carrier ribbon supply tool (12) and a carrier ribbon take-up spool (16), a print head (22) having a plurality of heating elements which are individually...
7113197 Method of thermal printing  
A method of thermal printing resulting in reduced or no wrinkling of the thermal printing ribbon during printing is described, wherein the ribbon includes inorganic particles in a polymeric host...
7102660 Thermal transfer printing  
An article for receiving an image by thermal transfer printing includes an image-receiving surface of plastics material coated with a layer of dye-receptive material capable of accepting an image...
7101100 Printer apparatus  
Provided is a printer apparatus, including: a thermal print head that performs printing by contacting a heat-sensitive color-developing layer of a heat-sensitive adhesive sheet that includes a...
7088379 Image forming apparatus and ink ribbon set  
When some trouble occurs to a facsimile apparatus 1 that reads component-identification information of an ink ribbon cartridge 60 and it is impossible to read the component-identification...
7011727 Thermal transfer film and image forming method  
A thermal transfer film comprises a coloring layer formed on a substrate film via an intermediate layer, wherein the intermediate layer contains a thermally fusible substance and a non-transferable...
6977669 Preventing crease formation in donor web in dye transfer printer that can cause line artifact on print  
A thermal printer is adapted to prevent crease formation in successive dye transfer areas of a dye donor web that can cause line artifacts to be printed on a dye receiver during dye transfer from...
6965391 Thermal transfer ribbon actuation device for printing machines  
Applicable to machines having a moving carriage (4) that can move transversally with respect to the continuous band to be printed and that includes a thermal printing head (9) by which passes a...
6947066 Thermal activating device of thermal activation sheet and printer using the thermal activating device  
A thermal activating device has an activation heating apparatus for heating and activating a heat sensitive adhesive on a thermal activator layer of a thermal activation sheet. A pressing device...
6929048 Laser transfer of organic material from a donor to form a layer in an OLED device  
Apparatus for permitting the laser transfer of organic material from a donor onto a substrate to form a layer of organic material on one or more OLED devices, wherein the donor includes a laser...
6919912 Method of registering the position of a ribbon moving at a constant angular velocity and detecting the amount of the ribbon used in a photo printer  
A method of registering the position of a ribbon by moving the ribbon with a constant angular velocity and detecting the amount of ribbon used in a photo printer. The ribbon includes dye regions...
6873347 Recording method and recording apparatus  
A transfer sheet separated from a support member is held and its recording position is detected, and the separated transfer sheet is returned and superposed on the recording surface of a support...
6860659 Traction device for heat-sensitive ink ribbon  
A recording deice includes a cylinder (1) of heat-sensitive ink ribbon (2), a rewinding cylinder (5), and a marking header (19). The device prevents unused segments of ribbon being left between...
6853394 Radiation-curable thermal printing ink and ink ribbons and methods of making, using and printing using the same  
A radiation-curable ink, a method of making the ink, a thermal transfer printer ribbon having a radiation-curable ink layer, and a thermal transfer printer with an actinic energy source are...
6827509 CD transporter with re-transfer printer  
A compact disc transporter has been described that includes a two-step printer. The printer uses an intermediate transfer sheet to receive a print image that is subsequently transferred to a...
6819348 Thermal transfer film, process for producing the same and method for image formation using said thermal transfer film  
There are provided a thermal transfer film which can yield a thermally transferred print possessing excellent fastness or resistance properties such as excellent abrasion resistance, lightfastness,...
6803936 Thermal transfer sheet, method for image formation, method for image-formed object formation, and image-formed object  
An image formation method and a thermal transfer sheet for use in the image formation method are provided. According to the image formation method and the thermal transfer sheet, an intermediate...
6781616 Preventing crease formation in donor web in dye transfer printer that can cause line artifact on print  
A method of equalizing web-stretching caused by web tensioning in a dye transfer printer that is for use with a donor web having a dye transfer area and opposite edge areas alongside the dye...
6778201 Monitoring consumption of print ribbon for printers  
A printer and method for monitoring consumption of a print ribbon of a thermal printer is provided. The method includes pressing the print ribbon against a medium located on a drawer of the thermal...
6778200 Thermal transfer printer, dyesheet and method of operation  
A thermal transfer printer includes three light emitting diodes (7, 8, 9) emitting red, green and blue light respectively, and respective detectors (10, 11, 12) mounted on the opposite side of a...
6762780 Printing apparatus  
A printing apparatus includes an image forming portion for selectively forming images to a card and to an intermediate transfer sheet, and a transfer portion for transferring images formed onto an...
6753894 Image recording apparatus, thermal transfer ink ribbon and thermal transfer ink ribbon cassette used in this image recording apparatus  
An image recording apparatus for producing a finished sheet of recording medium with an image printed thereon includes an image recorder with a platen drum, a clamper, a movable guide provided in...
6734888 Apparatus and method for determining mismatch involving availability of dye donor and receiver supplies in thermal printer  
A method for determining a mismatch involving the availability of a dye donor supply and a dye receiver supply in a thermal printer when a particular print size and print quantity are selected,...
6695030 Apparatus for permitting transfer of organic material from a donor web to form a layer in an OLED device  
Apparatus for transferring organic material from a donor web onto a substrate to form a layer of organic material on one or more OLED devices including a web of donor material; first and second...
6688365 Method for transferring of organic material from a donor to form a layer in an OLED device  
A method for transferring organic material from a flexible donor element onto a substrate to form a layer of organic material in making one or more OLED devices, includes providing the flexible...
6629791 Thermal ink ribbon traction device  
A traction device has an origin cylinder (1) of heat-sensitive ink ribbon (2), a rewinding cylinder (5), traction means and a marking header. The device prevents unused segments of ribbon being...
6614461 Printer  
A printer includes a supply shaft wound with unused film including contrast agent, a winding shaft wound with used film including used contrast agent, rotation-speed detector for detecting a...
6603497 Replaceable donor sheet assembly with memory for use with a thermal printer  
A wide format thermal printer for printing a multicolor graphic product on a printing sheet; a vacuum workbed for supporting a sheet material for performing work operations, such as cutting,...
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