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7588300 Image-forming apparatus  
An image-forming apparatus is capable of performing a non-margin recording operation without a margin on a recording medium and providing a waiting time between a moment of termination of a...
7176649 DC motor control apparatus and recording apparatus  
When torque of a DC motor is dropped down to zero at a stop position, force is generated by deformation of a member for transmitting the torque of the DC motor. The force moves the driven body...
7131779 Actuating control device  
An actuating control device for use between a printer head and an actuating and transmitting device includes a path planning unit, a feedback unit, a proportional-integral controller and a feed...
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...
7097266 Image printing apparatus and control method therefor  
An image printing apparatus is capable of printing an image at various resolutions, such as 300- and 360-dpi systems. To drive a printhead at a printing position corresponding to the resolution of...
7059787 Motor control method and apparatus, time recorder having same and impact type printing apparatus  
An impact printing apparatus is also disclosed with printing pin actuation timing correction dependent upon scanning speed or platen shape, striking duration timing dependent upon scanning rate, or...
7056041 Encoder strip damage detector  
A method and apparatus for detecting a damaged encoder strip are described. An encoder strip is scanned in two separate operations at two separate times, a first operation and a second operation....
6935722 Timer device for a digital printer and method of printing  
A digital printer has a printhead ( 10 ) for printing on a substrate and an encoder ( 14 ) which emits pulses ( 122 ) to indicate the relative distance moved by the printhead. A timer device for...
6910752 Ink jet printing apparatus and method for adjusting driving timing of ink ejection  
The present invention provides an ink jet printing apparatus and method that can print a high-grade image without being affected by a variation in moving speed of a printing head. To accomplish...
6895395 Postal printing device with facilitated reading  
This invention relates to an inkjet printing device of a franking machine intended to print postal indicia on a mail piece to be franked, displaced with respect to this device in a direction of...
6885471 Printer controller, printer control method, and data storage medium for recording the controller and control method  
A printer controller, printer control method, and data storage medium detect a real-time command pattern in the print data to prevent unintended real-time commands from being executed by the...
6863457 Lateral edge position detector for recording paper, and printer  
A thermal printer includes a thermal head which extends in a main scan direction. Feeder rollers move thermal recording paper relative to the thermal head in a sub scan direction, for image...
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...
6857799 Motor control method and apparatus, time recorder having same and impact type printing apparatus  
An impact printing apparatus is also disclosed with printing pin actuation timing correction dependent upon scanning speed or platen shape, striking duration timing dependent upon scanning rate, or...
6823132 Method and apparatus for controlling motor  
In controlling a motor in a device which drives a mechanism using the motor as a power source, pre-driving of giving a predetermined driving parameter to the motor and driving the mechanism is...
6742856 Movement control apparatus, printing apparatus, and movement control method  
To control movement of a member to be driven by using a scale having a plurality of indices at a predetermined interval, and a sensor which is attached to the member to be driven along the scale...
6698955 Method and apparatus for adjusting print positions of dot line printer  
A control circuit generates two sorts of printing timing signals on the basis of the position of the printing mechanism module detected by a detector, and sends the generated signals to respective...
6685415 Bookbinding method  
A bookbinding structure and method. The bookbinding structure is used to bind pages together in existing, commercially available binding machines. The bookbinding structure has a heat activated...
6679638 Unidirectional mode printers  
To save time between printing passes of a unidirectional printer, the print medium is advanced in two phases separated in time by the fast return of the carriage. The print medium advance movements...
6655777 Automatic horizontal and vertical head-to-head alignment method and sensor for an ink jet printer  
A printhead alignment sensor for an ink jet printer includes at least two terminals defining a gap therebetween. An electrical measuring device detects a change in an electrical parameter between...
6626593 Pen printer  
A printing system. The system may include an ink dispenser, a switch to generate an initial position signal, a movement sensor to generate movement signals and a circuit that causes the dispenser...
6471424 Printer suitable for printing on a surface other than a printed surface  
A printer is provided, which comprises a printer body 20 including a paper sheet feeding unit for setting paper sheets therein for printing and a paper sheet discharging unit, and a printer...
6471319 Method for synchronizing print start positions for an inkjet printer carriage  
A method for synchronizing the print start position for a printer carriage on an inkjet printer that includes the steps of: (a) providing an encoder signal indicative of a position of an inkjet...
6416148 Method and system for improving the print quality of a printer  
A printer has a print head for forming a pixel, and a driving system for moving the print head from a first location to a second location. The print head forms the pixel according to a firing...
6407678 Belt media drive for printer with dual belt encoders  
An encoding system is described for a media handling system including an endless belt. The encoding system includes encoding indicia associated with the endless belt. A first encoder transducer is...
6375296 Printing system and method for continuous web print medium  
An inkjet printing system for printing on a print medium having a top-of-form (TOF) indicator includes a printhead assembly, a top-of-form (TOF) detector adapted to detect the TOF indicator, a...
6371593 Error detection and correction for printer positioning logic  
A printer has a print path, a code strip disposed in parallel along the print path, a sensor for sensing the code strip, a driving system for moving the sensor along the code strip, a timer, a...
6367996 Printed image alignment control  
A printed image alignment apparatus in a printer that prints a defined portion on a media, the apparatus being an alignment control in connection to the printing device of the printer and which...
6354691 Printing apparatus  
A print timing signal is generated which has 1/n the previous cycle of the encoder output. The print processing based on this print timing signal allows the actual print processing to extend into...
6354216 Driving mechanism for scanning head and image recording device  
A drive control mechanism for a scanning head which travels along a scan surface and carries out image reading or image writing. The drive control mechanism includes a driving starting position...
6336756 Ink jet printer that carries out printing with strut moving along arc  
A compact ink jet printer having a small amplitude width in the horizontal direction of an ink carriage includes: a shaft provided rotatably about a predetermined axis; a strut fixed to the shaft...
6318915 Image forming apparatus and system, information processing apparatus, and their control method  
A printer having a plurality of recording heads each capable of recording with a recording width is connected to a host apparatus. The host apparatus develops an image to generate recording data...
6305856 Printing method and apparatus therefor  
There is disclosed a method and an apparatus of printing an image in a rectangular recording area on a recording material by a printing head as the recording material is advanced in a sub scan...
6267519 Positional deviation correction using different correction values for monochrome and color bi-directional printing  
In monochrome printing mode, a first correction value is set for correcting printing positional deviation between ink droplets printed during forward and reverse main scanning passes. In color...
6260945 Recording apparatus and method for controlling scanning speeds of the recording head of such recording apparatus  
A recording apparatus is capable of making the scanning range of a carriage narrower without expanding the left and right recording blanks of a recording material, and further, making the apparatus...
6231250 Method of controlling reciprocal movement of hammer rank in print device  
A hammer bank mounted on direct drive bearings reciprocally moves along a shaft. Springs provided at each end of the shaft supplies repulsive force to the hammer bank. When sheet feed operations...
6217143 Method of printing using scanning print head and apparatus using same  
A method of printing in which, when an image is divided to be printed into a plurality of lines, the feeding amount of a printing medium is equalized in each line for eliminating a feeding error of...
6196736 Adjustment of printing position deviation during bidirectional printing  
Image quality is improved by correcting printing position deviation arising between forward and reverse passes in the main scanning direction during bidirectional printing. An adjustment value is...
6158905 Bidirectional printer and printing position adjustment method for the same  
An adjustment value for printing deviation between forward and reverse printing passes is set for each width of printing paper. The printing deviation is adjusted by, for example, varying, in the...
6139205 Serial printer which provides acceleration control of carrier  
A serial printer apparatus comprises a print heat for printing on a medium according to a received character signal, a carrier on which the print head is provided and which runs the print head over...
6129464 Printing device, and a system having the printing device and an image processing device  
A printing device comprises a print head for printing an image on a recording medium, a carriage mounted for movement along the recording medium and supporting thereon the print head, an encoder...
6109802 Dot line printer for preventing the overheating of printing elements by selectively activating the printing elements  
In a dot line printer having a plurality of print hammers which are arranged to print a plurality of dot lines simultaneously when a hammer bank on which the print hammers are mounted performs one...
6106176 Printing method and apparatus  
There are provided a method and apparatus for printing a print image on a print material by using a print head based on dot information of the print image by causing at least one of the print head...
6082911 Method for judging propriety of printing position and printing apparatus  
A reference pattern is printed on one of the printing regions as the printing head moves in one direction, and a comparison pattern, which is to become a pattern identical to the reference pattern,...
6054835 Stepping motor control, and operating mode of such motors  
A method and apparatus for operating stepping motors in a printer or copier senses temporarily changes in the moment of resistance caused by the introduction of the leading edge of the paper and...
6053645 Method for automatic margin correction according to paper feeding mode in image formation apparatus  
In an image formation apparatus receiving image data from a host computer and having an automatic paper-feed mode and a manual paper-feed mode, a method for the automatic correction of the printing...
6050734 Tape printing device with cutter and program to allow for printing on the tape during an acceleration of the tape  
The present invention aims to produce a label which has a size, margins and a character arrangement as a user desired, and aims to reduce a wasteful consumption of tape. In a tape printing device...
6042281 Printing apparatus  
The present invention realizes excellent controllability of print position even when a print head is driven at accelerating or decelerating speed while keeping advantages of fine and high...
6036384 Printer for printing edge marks on gaming tickets  
A printer comprising a carriage making reciprocating movement and a printing head mounted thereon, the movement of the carriage comprising an outward section from a home position to the other...
6000869 Technique for controlling the position of a driving motor and a print head  
A device for accurately controlling the positions of a driving motor and a print head and enhancing print quality by sensing the position of the driving motor by occurring pulses from a timer at...
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