Typewriting machines inventions 07/06

20060165458 - Method and system for printing a document: A method includes printing at least one document provided with information content and with at least one mark on a printing unit. A first print instruction comprising the information content to be printed on the document is provided from a document generator. A marking module generates a second print instruction...

20060165457 - Print production method, print production system, print order slip, print containing bag, and print product: By executing an ordering program which causes a computer to work as process sequence storage unit 15c, display item setting unit 15d, order-screen creating unit 15f, order history information storing unit 15i, and display mode changing unit 15j, an ordering screen displays only items that were selected in previous steps...

20060165456 - Print system, print device and print instruction method: The print system (0001) is made up with the print instruction device (0101), the print device (0102) and the print data supply device (0103). The print instruction device (0101) has a print instruction device (0111) which transmits, to the print device (0102), authentication information and a print instruction of print...

20060165459 - Printing processing device and method thereof: A printing processing device in which different jobs are generated at different stages of the printing process is disclosed that is capable of providing information of different jobs generated at different stages in connection with each other. The printing processing device includes a job information providing unit that provides the...

20060165460 - Handheld printing device connectable to a mobile unit: The present invention relates to a handheld printing device (1) having a print head for printing a printout on a printout surface. The handheld printing device (1) comprises an interface for mechanical and electrical connection to a handheld mobile unit (9) capable of communicating with other units for information retrieval....

20060165461 - Identifying compatible combination for a thermal printer: A printing apparatus having a first zone for receiving a supply of image receiving tape and a second zone for receiving a supply of thermal transfer ribbon, means for identifying the nature of the image receiving tape and the thermal transfer ribbon located in the first and second zones, and...

20060165462 - Computerized apparatus and method for applying graphics to surfaces: A computer-implemented method for applying at least one graphic to at least one surface comprises receiving at least one graphic, receiving data for mapping the at least one surface, communicating instructions to a horizontal drive means for moving a pigment application head across a width of a first surface, communicating...

20060165464 - Training system and method for learning typing: A training system and method for a user to effectively learn typing in a correct fingering manner provides the user a finger-mountable sensor device, upon a user typing a key, they will compare signals generated by the key stroked and by the sensor of the typing finger and indicates whether...

20060165463 - Wireless keyboard for hand-held computers: Prior collapsible keyboards for personal digital assistants are overly complex and require different connecting hard-ware for different handheld devices. The present invention provides a folding keyboard for a hand-held computer or other information processing devices which folds up simply and in a small size and which is useful for touch...

20060165465 - Two module splash resistant keyboard: A two module keyboard with splash-resistant mechanism has a key module that can be separated by a user from a base module. One group of components becomes a detachable and user-serviceable key module, while the other group stays as the base module. The detachable module contains essentially the keycap portion...

20060165466 - Method for controlling media feed in an imaging apparatus: A method for controlling the media feed of a print media sheet in an imaging apparatus having a media feed roller includes selecting between using absolute positioning of the media feed roller and relative positioning of the media feed roller for various media feed roller moves....

20060165467 - Printer with a peeler mechanism: A printer having an opening/closing cover for providing access to a roll paper compartment, a peeler mechanism for peeling printed labels from a web and for dispensing the peeled printed labels from the printer and an opening and closing mechanism 50 which locks and unlocks the cover and a peeler...

20060165468 - Paper sheet package, and printer using the package: Print sheets 7 stacked up are inserted into a package member 8 so that the sheets 7 in this state can be set in a printer together with the package member 8. The package member 8 is provided with an identification mark 31 while the printer is equipped with a...

20060165469 - Printer and printing method: An image is recorded on a recording material line by line during transport of the recording material by a drive roller and a driven roller. Rotation of a motor is transmitted to the drive roller via a traction drive decelerating mechanism. An output shaft of the traction drive decelerating mechanism...

20060159502 - Printer thermal response calibration system: Techniques are disclosed herein for estimating parameters of a model of a thermal print head for use in performing thermal history control. In particular, techniques are disclosed for use in conjunction with a thermal print head having a plurality of print head elements and an associated heat sink. A sensitivity...

20060159503 - Two-sided thermal printing: Dual-sided direct thermal printing of a thermal imaging element having thermally sensitive coatings on opposite sides of a substrate is described, where the thermal imaging element is provided along a feed path of a thermal printer having print heads disposed on opposite sides of the feed path. Printing on both...

20060159504 - Printer: Disclosed are a printer and a stacker and methods. The printer prints selectively on one or both sides of a printable web and sheets or labels are cut from the web and stacked in the stacker. The printer has an unwind mechanism that accepts and holds web rolls of different...

20060159505 - Ribbon packaging and loading device: Ribbon packaging is used to load the ribbon into the printer and to code the media type into the printer. The inventive ribbon packaging comprises a contoured sleeve that acts as a loading device. The contoured sleeve with printer ribbon is inserted into the printer. The contoured sleeve is withdrawn...

20060159506 - Keypad module manufacturing method: A keypad module manufacturing method for reducing production time and enhancing yield is described. A lower substrate, with button holes and positioning holes, is manufactured. A rubber layer is formed upon the lower substrate. An upper substrate, with buttons and a cut-away portion, is manufactured. The upper substrate is attached...

20060159507 - One-row keyboard: In one aspect, the present invention comprises an apparatus for data entry on an electronic device, comprising: a keyboard with only one row of keys used to type letters of an alphabet; and an electronic display device in communication with the keyboard; wherein each key of the one row of...

20060159508 - Tape print device and program: There is provided a tape printing device capable of using long tape-like print media such as label tape having a plurality of label areas as targets of printing arranged on a long support tape along the length of the support tape and normal tape allowing printing at any position on...

20060153613 - Method and device for handling errors in a printer or copier: A method is provided for error handling in a printer or copier. A plurality of monitoring units detect error states of the printer or copier. A detected error states are transmitted to a controller. A plurality of successively transmitted error states are stored in a storage. The stored error states...

20060153614 - Printing apparatus performing bidirectional communication with a server and an information terminal: A printing apparatus is connected to a WAN and a LAN and can perform a bidirectional communication with each terminal in those networks. In the printing apparatus, a CPU sends a Web server a request signal, which received from a LAN terminal, and receives content data sent from the web...

20060153617 - Computer containing a print control program, the program, and program recording medium: When access is made from an application program (4) to a printer (69), a spooler (65) operates. An access request is detected in response to an event occurring when the spooler (65) operates. A common interface driver (7) controls data output to the printer (69) at a filter (41) or...

20060153615 - Print control device and print control method: A print control device (100), which prevents a print range from being limited, is comprised of: a division unit (101a) that obtains print data (401) and divides it into a plurality of divided data files (104a); a R/W unit (101b) that reads/writes the plurality of divided data files 104a to/from...

20060153616 - System and method for the automatic generation of printable files from data: The invention relates to a system for the automatic generation of printable files from data in a database. The system includes a printing system having at least one print processing component, the print processing component having means for the printing and/or the further processing of the files. The printing system...

20060153618 - Portable printing system: A portable label printing system for printing on a variety of materials is disclosed. A retractable platen roller cooperates with a self-aligning print head in three planes cooperates for proper label printing registration. A display screen allows the user to view precisely what the actual label and associated indicia will...

20060153619 - Embossing control method, program, braille-embossing apparatus, and character-information-processing apparatus: An embossing control method used in a braille-embossing apparatus includes an embossing head that embosses a braille string on a tape fed along a tape-conveying path, the braille string being embossed in an area biased to one of upper and lower sides of the tape along the width of the...

20060153620 - Ink ribbon unit and method of judgment of ink ribbon jamming: Magnetic force lines 51 are generated in the direction from a first limited portion 52 of an inside peripheral face 50a of a ribbon-delivering cylindrical core 50 toward an opposing second limited portion 54. A first magnet is fixed at the first limited portion: a second magnet is fixed at...

20060153621 - Method and apparatus for substrate handling and printing: An apparatus and method are described for transferring substrates to and from a printer. In a described embodiment, the apparatus includes a pair of storage units for vertically stacking substrates, and a laterally moveable platen. The storage units are moveable vertically with respect to the platen in order to transfer...

20060153622 - Pinion roller drive for recording apparatus: An apparatus for recording an image onto a sheet medium (12) has an entrance drive roller (16) paired with a corresponding entrance pressure roller (18) to form an entrance nip (14) for transporting the sheet medium into an image recording section (20). The image recording section has a write head...

20060153623 - Printer apparatus: In a printer body 2 of a printer apparatus 1, a grid roller 4 for feeding a sheet of paper 10 and a press roller 8 are arranged. Grid roller 4 is formed to have a large diameter portion and a small diameter portion smaller in diameter than the large...

20060153624 - Printer: A printer has a discharging roller, and a discharging section having first and second pinch rollers. The first pinch roller and the second pinch roller are arranged such that a mounting angle of the first pinch roller is smaller than a mounting angle of the second pinch roller, wherein the...

20060147233 - Print control device and print control method: The print control apparatus 100 that reduces the time needed for searching files includes a division unit 101a that obtains the print data 401 from outside the print control apparatus 100 and divides it into division files 104a, a storage unit 104 that has an area for storing the division...

20060147236 - Printing control apparatus and printing control method: 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...

20060147234 - 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...

20060147235 - 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...

20060147237 - Drive controlling method for carriage and computer readable medium including drive controlling program, electronic apparatus, recording apparatus, and liquid ejecting apparatus: A drive controlling method for a carriage which permits absorbing of a vibration caused by cogging, eccentricity of a motor pulley, or the like, without providing a vibration absorbing mechanism; and an electronic apparatus and a liquid ejecting apparatus provided with a carriage controlled by this controlling method. The drive...

20060147238 - Print head: A needle guide (5) is composed of a first guide wall (5a) and a second guide wall (5b) arranged at a distance x from each other. Each of these guide walls is formed with through holes through which needles penetrate and which extends parallel to the longitudinal direction of a...

20060147239 - Keyboard configuration system: A system for configuring keyboards using both frequency and alphabetical bases, as well as the resulting keyboards. The Keyboard Configuration System uses alphabetized and frequency-based sets of keys. The relevant alphabet is analyzed for letter use on a frequency basis. For maximum-fingers configurations, the frequency-ranked list is broken into rows....

20060147241 - Antijamming device for printers put in public places: An antijamming device for a printed ticket vending machine having an exit opening for exiting of a printed ticket and a control for controlling feeding of unprinted tickets to a printing mechanism for printing tickets, having a pathway through which printed tickets pass from the printing mechanism to the exit...

20060147240 - Method of making a lined tray: A lined tray may be made by printing on a film an ink comprising from about 15 to about 50 weight percent binder resin selected from ethylene/vinyl acetate copolymers, polyamide polymers, polystyrene polymers, and acrylic polymers. The printed film is laminated to a tray substrate to form a lined tray...

20060147243 - Spindle assembly: Disclosed are a printer and a stacker and methods. The printer prints selectively on one or both sides of a printable web and sheets or labels are cut from the web and stacked in the stacker. The printer has an unwind mechanism that accepts and holds web rolls of different...

20060147242 - Stacker and methods: Disclosed are a printer and a stacker and methods. The printer prints selectively on one or both sides of a printable web and sheets or labels are cut from the web and stacked in the stacker. The printer has an unwind mechanism that accepts and holds web rolls of different...

20060147244 - Printer apparatus: A printer body of a printer apparatus is provided with paired bearing portions such that the paired bearing portions face each other, while a paper support for supporting a paper sheet is provided with paired rotating shaft portions, which are rotatably journaled by the paired bearing portions. Each of the...