Typewriting machines inventions 06/06

20060140697 - Adjustment device for printer head of barcode printer: A device for adjusting the position of a printer head of a barcode printer includes a casing mounted to the barcode printer and a base movably coupled to the casing. A slide board is slidably supported on the base and carries the printer head. A first adjuster is arranged between...

20060140698 - Line concentrator, external devices, information processing system including them, and method for managing information processing system: A line concentrator and external devices wherein data transmitted from external devices within a system and wherein the processing of the received data can be efficiently executed without increasing load on the network is provided. A print system includes a printer hub, a shared printer and a shared MFP. The...

20060140699 - Printing control apparatus, printing control method and computer-readable medium: A printing control apparatus is provided which can produce an appropriate copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image by adding a monochrome copy-forgery-inhibited pattern even if monochrome mode printing is performed in the condition in which a color copy-forgery-inhibited pattern is set. When the monochrome mode printing is performed in the condition in which...

20060140700 - Image forming device, computer system, and printing control and printing data processing methods using the same: An image forming device with a printing part to print printing data received from an external device is provided. The image forming device has a mode selector to allow a user to select one of a plurality of printing modes, and a controller. The controller creates a page image by...

20060140701 - Thermotransfer printer, and method for controlling activation of printing elements of a print head thereof: In a method for activation of a print head operating according to the thermotransfer principle, the print head having a number of printing elements, in which the energy quantity to be supplied to a printing element is determined in a determination step, and the energy quantity is supplied to the...

20060133877 - On-demand printing of coding patterns: A computer-implemented method is designed for on-demand printing on digital printers of a coding pattern to code data on a surface. The coding pattern comprises a plurality of parallel number sequences which represent different rotations of a cyclic number sequence. The method could involve retrieving a digital representation of the...

20060133878 - Simplified device drivers for hardware devices of a computer system: A computer system uses simplified device drivers for operating hardware devices. A simplified device driver for a hardware device of a given device type, such as a flatbed scanner, works with a system-supplied common driver for that given device type. The common driver and the simplified driver together function like...

20060133879 - Spool adapter: An adapter is provided for use with a supply spool having first and second spool ends the spool having web media thereon. The adapter has a body having first and second body ends with each of the first and second body ends having shaped linkages to join to one of...

20060133880 - Printer with reciprocating carriage and a two-stage frame structure: A printer including: a frame composed of a lower frame and an upper frame supported on the lower frame, a platen rotatably supported in the upper frame for advancing a recording medium, a guide rail extending in parallel with an axial direction (Y) of the platen, a carriage guided at...

20060133881 - Mobile computing device form factor: A handheld computing device is disclosed. In one embodiment the handheld computing device comprises a display screen having a first side and a second side, the first side operable to display visual images, a control mechanism coupled to the second side of the display screen, the control mechanism operable to...

20060133882 - Material cutter with a selectable cutting profile: A material cutter for producing a selected cutting profile. The material cutter includes a cutter frame and a cutter button. The cutter frame has a stationary blade. The cutter button, which is slidably mounted in the cutter frame, has a moving blade with a cutting edge. The cutter button preferably...

20060133883 - Frame structure for a scanning-type printer: A printer including a frame, a feed roller rotatably supported in the frame for advancing a recording medium, a sheet support plate for supporting said recording medium, a guide rail extending in parallel with an axial direction (Y) of the feed roller, and a carriage guided at the guide rail...

20060127153 - Three-dimensional object printing: Apparatus and method for controlling modeling material supply in a three-dimensional object-printing system (100). The apparatus may include one or more cartridges (180) containing modeling materials that may be connected via a set or matrix of valves (175) to the three-dimensional object printing system (100). Sensors (185) associated with the...

20060127154 - Rfid tag, antenna, and printer system: An RFID label with embedded tag is passed through an RFID antenna in a printer system, where the RFID antenna allows a roll of such labels to pass in close proximity to the antenna and still allow each individual RFID tag to be read and/or programmed. The RFID antenna module...

20060127155 - Continuous decorative thermal print: The invention relates to a decorative thermal print comprising a continuous thermal print material comprising a thermal image on a pragmatic layer, a protective layer over the print, and an adhesive layer on the opposite side of said pragmatic layer from said image....

20060127156 - Printing apparatus and printing method: This invention provides a printing apparatus that can control vibration generated resulting from the movement of a carriage to be small even when a desired printing pattern etc. may change, and a printing method for the same. For this object, the carriage is moved based on a plurality of drive...

20060115309 - Streamlining cpu utilisation by delaying transactions: In a printer (3), a communication unit (302) receives location information indicating a storage location of a job ticket describing details of a printing instruction, and a print processing unit (304) receives a printing instruction for print data by this. When processing of a print job which has been queued...

20060115310 - Printing apparatus and methods: A printing apparatus (10) has at a printing station (11), a print head (12) with an array (13) of heating elements individually selectable by a computer controller (15), a feed path (16) for feeding carrier ribbon (18) through the printing station (11), the carrier ribbon (18) carrying a layer of...

20060115311 - Thermal image forming apparatus: A thermal image forming apparatus includes a platen roller which supports a medium, a print head, including a heating unit which applies heat to the medium to form an image thereon, which rotates around the platen roller and moves the heating unit to a first location facing a first surface...

20060115312 - Media processing apparatus and scanner unit: The media processing apparatus has a first transportation path for guiding the check, a second transportation path and a third transportation path that diverge from the first transportation path, a front scanner that is rendered along the first transportation path for imaging the first side of the check, a back...

20060115313 - Assembly for feeding a continuous roll of web material to a sheet fed printing device: An assembly for feeding, printing, and cutting a continuous web of material is provided. The web is fed from a roll supported in a roll feeding unit to a printer unit. The web can carry distinct image-receiving media items or can be a plain continuous web material. The assembly is...