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6398438 Sheet feeding technique for image forming apparatus  
A sheet feeding apparatus for an image forming apparatus comprises a carriage with which an ink-cartridge is mounted and which is reciprocated to print an image includes: a printing stroke section...
6390698 Apparatus and method of detecting home position of carriage and storage medium storing home position detection program  
There is provided an apparatus and a method of detecting a home position of a carriage, achieving a less manufacturing cost. The apparatus includes a position detecting part to detect a position of...
6231251 Printing apparatus with a printhead rotatable between a printing position and a service position  
A printing apparatus comprises a print head and foil feed means provided on a mount for feeding foil past the print head when the mount is in a feed position adjacent the print head. The print head...
6089450 Receipt printer having a check reading mechanism with selective engagement  
A printer and method for negotiating transactions at the point of sale in retail establishments. The POS printer includes a check feeding mechanism that feeds a check into receipt printer with a...
6085973 Receipt printer having a check reading mechanism with selective engagement  
A printer for negotiating transactions at the point of sale in retail establishments. The POS printer includes a selective check reading mechanism that converts the receipt printer into a check...
5393152 Printing device having opening and shutting mechanism  
A print head is supported on an upper frame of a printing device and a platen and a feeding device are supported on a lower frame. Further, a circuit substrate, a print head moving motor, and a...
5372440 Printing machines  
A printing machine wherein printing onto a substrate is effected by a first movement of a print head (1) downwardly into contact with the substrate and then by a second movement over the surface of...
5145271 Serial printer  
A serial printer includes: a carrier mounted with a printing head; a display means movable with the carrier; a stationary panel having indicating windows arranged so that the display means is...
5008684 Head driving apparatus for thermal printer  
In a thermal printer, a driving apparatus moves a thermal head both longitudinally of and perpendicularly toward and away from a platen. A racing or idle rotating of gears is utilized in a driving...
4929106 Platen module  
An article of manufacture is provided which includes a molded piece-part having a substantially rectangularly-shaped plate portion including opposed surfaces. The piece-part also includes a pair of...
4902147 Printing apparatus with a carriage and a printing means holder movable relatively to the same  
A printing apparatus in which a holder, bearing a type carrier thereon, and a carriage, moving along a printing line, are coupled together by means of an engaging member and a coupling plate formed...
4883375 Printing device  
A guide shaft guides a print head, which moves along a print line of a platen to perform a printing operation. A rotating member and an eccentric cam member, having a toothed sector portion on its...
4874264 Selective magnetic attachment of a print head to a drive belt  
A hybrid printer includes at least one impact type print head and at least one non-impact type print head, which are selectively used to print not only graphic information but also character...
4867584 Impact mechanism for impact printer  
An impact mechanism for use in an impact printer, to deliver a printing force to drive a character element against a platen by means of a print tip movable toward and away from the platen. A...
4865476 Carriage mechanism providing movement of a print wheel motor  
Disclosed is a printing mechanism having a printing head mounted on a carriage frame so as to linearly move the printing head toward a platen.
4830523 Compliant head loading mechanism for thermal printers  
A compliant head loading mechanism for a thermal printer is disclosed which compliantly loads a thermal print head against a carrier and a receiver mounted on a drum to uniformly apply pressure...
4815871 Head control apparatus  
A head contorl apparatus is disclosed for a printing machine. The apparatus includes a frame with a thermal head connected to the frame. A tape roller guide is connected to the frame. The guide and...
4758845 Thermal printer carriage-medium transport  
A thermal printer having a main shaft supporting a carriage mounted with printing mechanisms including a printing head and an ink ribbon peeling member for peeling an ink ribbon off the recording...
4733250 Recording apparatus  
A recording apparatus such as a thermal printer is compact in size and simple in construction, and has a recording head, a pulse motor commonly used for driving the head and for feeding a recording...
4710045 Diasywheel printer with improved adjustable carriage assembly and cartridge latching member  
An adjustable carriage assembly for a printing device having a print mechanism to be translated along a linear print path. The carriage assembly includes an upper carriage sub-assembly and a lower...
4709242 Printer  
A thermal transfer printer comprising means for identifying space data present between character data in a print data string. When a space portion is detected by the space identifier, the thermal...
4705416 Positioning device for positioning type-wheel index motor in a printer  
A positioning device in a printer, for positioning an index motor for a type wheel selectively in an operative position in which the motor shaft is coupled to the type wheel, or an inoperative...
4689639 Inked film feeding for a thermal printer  
A thermal printer for transferring ink from an inked film onto paper using a thermal head includes an inked film feeding mechanism for feeding the inked film, a paper feeding mechanism for feeding...
4665407 Thermal printer  
A thermal printer using a thermal transfer-printing ribbon including a thermal head movable between an operative position in which it is held in pressing engagement with a printing sheet and an...
4647233 Thermal printer  
The present invention relates to a thermal printer comprising a thermal head, and means for inhibiting an energization signal for heat generation of said thermal head. The inhibition means prevents...
4644371 Thermal printer  
A thermal printer having a reciprocable carriage on which a thermal head is carried. The printer further includes a toothed rack and a driving plate both of which are rotatably held to a shaft. The...
4642656 Thermal printer  
A thermal printer automatically varies torque of a slip clutch provided between a motor and an ink film takeup roller with movements of a thermal head such that the torque transmitted to the takeup...
4641151 Thermal transfer recording apparatus  
A device associated with a thermal transfer recording apparatus for boosting a pressing force of a thermal head against a platen roller. The thermal head is mounted on one end portion of an...
4639744 Recording apparatus  
A recording apparatus comprises circuitry supplied with electric power for moving a recording head toward a recording medium into a recording position and a solenoid for holding the recording head...
4632584 Serial printer  
A serial printer comprises a carriage (21) which is movable parallel to a platen roller (11) and on which are mounted a character carrying disc (28) having a flexible blades, a stepping motor (26)...
4617577 Thermal-image-transfer recording apparatus  
A thermal-image-transfer recording apparatus which heats a thermally fusible ink sheet in a selected pattern and transfers the image formed to a superimposed recording sheet, has separate units for...
4614949 Transfer-type thermal printer  
A transfer type thermal printer includes a heat sensitive ink ribbon which is fed along an ink ribbon feeding path, a part of which is defined as a recording section, a thermal printhead and a...
4576496 Device for guiding a print element  
A device is provided for guiding a print element of a printer device. The guide device comprises a guide bushing which is provided with two sliding surfaces and which is carried on a guide rail...
4563692 Head and ribbon driving mechanism for thermal printer  
A head-driving and ink ribbon feeding mechanism for an ink-transfer thermal printer comprises a print carriage mounted for parallel and non-rotational movement in a direction parallel to the platen...
4553868 Device for mounting a daisywheel on a typewriter  
The device for mounting a daisy-wheel character carrying disc (70) in a printing machine comprises a frame (22) which is pivoted on a guide (13) of the carriage (12) that is parallel to the platen...
4544287 Printing control apparatus for a label printer, method of using the apparatus, and a label used in conjunction with the apparatus  
Printing control apparatus includes structure for selectively preventing the operation of a thermal head comprising part of a label printer for thermosensitive labels. The thermal head can be moved...
4531852 Printing apparatus of modular construction having a rotatable printhead and plural print stations  
A printing apparatus of modular construction includes a printing mechanism with a pivotally mounted printing head, a continuous form feed part and an individual form feed part. To provide a compact...
4420269 Device for lifting the printing head off the platen  
A printer having a carriage guided for movement along a platen and supporting a wire matrix printing element includes means for changing the distance between the printing element and the platen an...
4134695 Printer carriage  
A carriage for positioning a print mechanism in front of a record medium and moving the print mechanism back and forth in front of the record medium with facility for retracting the print mechanism...
4049109 Print member carriage assembly  
A carriage assembly for transporting a print member along a predetermined path adjacent a support member comprises a first carriage section adapted to be mounted adjacent the support member for...
3983985 Typing device of flexible laminae with guide means and visibility  
A typing device comprises a character-bearing disc having a central part for being fixed on a selector shaft and a peripheral rim with a plurality of selectable flexible laminae. Each lamina...
3951249 Drive for the movable portion of a printer  
A tape driving device in which the tape is helically wound around an axially displaceable cylinder. On rotation of the cylinder one end of the tape is taken up and the other is unwound at the same...
3949857 Electromechanical writing device  
An electromechanical writing device comprising a writing head, a carrier for carrying the writing head, a guide bar along which the carrier is movable during a writing operation, a writing platen...
3851249 MICROCIRCUIT TEST DEVICE WITH MULTI-AXES PROBE CONTROL AND PROBE STOP MEANS  
A tool for testing the miniaturized circuitry of silicone wafer devices. A ring-shaped structure is supported on a casting or platform for movement along X and Z axes in a horizontal plane. A probe...
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