Typewriting machines inventions 06/07

20070147926 - Apparatus and method for printing on irregular surfaces: An apparatus and method for presenting a substrate/print media having favorable surface conditions and optimum spatial orientation for printing purposes. The apparatus/method includes a mechanism for maintaining the substrate/print media in a substantially orthogonal spatial orientation relative to the direction of ink deposition, and a pressurization device for developing a... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. Intellectual Property And Technology Law Dept.

20070147928 - Image forming system, method of realizing simulated printing operation, program for implementing the method, and storage medium storing the program: An image forming system which is capable of realizing a highly accurate simulated printing operation thereby shortening a development schedule and reducing development costs. In the image forming system, a plurality of printer functional modules perform operations for printing. A plurality of printer drivers drive the printer functional modules, respectively.... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070147927 - Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and computer readable recording medium storing control program: Disclosed is an image forming device including an inputting unit to input print data from an external device; a printing unit to execute printing according to the print data; and a control unit to control the image forming device, wherein the control unit determines whether a printing size included in... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070147929 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: The image data with the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image added and an image area flag signal stored in the hard disk drive are inputted into a thinning filter. A thinning circuit does not perform thinning processing on these pieces of data and outputs the inputted image, as it is. The filter... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070147930 - Light guides to assist in movement of a handheld printing device: A printing device includes light guides to assist the user in aligning the device with a reference, such as the edge of a page. The light guides emit a beam of light that produces an illuminated visible straight line segment on the page. The light guides can employ a light... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070147931 - Thermal printer cartridge with energy absorbing features: A thermal printer cartridge is provided. The thermal printer cartridge comprising: a supply housing having a drive end and a non-drive end; a take-up housing having a drive end and a non-drive end; a stiffening linkage joining the non-drive end of the supply housing to the non-drive end of the... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff

20070147932 - Computer keyboard: A computer keyboard that includes features which assist a child in learning how to type. The keys have different colors based upon the function of the keys. The number keys are physically separated from the letter keys by a gap to prevent accidental contact with the number keys while typing... Agent: Todd A Noah Dergosits & Noah

20070147933 - Keyboard used in the information terminal and arrangement thereof: A keyboard used with information terminals/devices and key arrangement on the keyboard. The keyboard comprises a high click frequency key group chain consisting of at least four of the five vowel keys and the ‘N’ key. Within the key group chain, each member key is next to at least one... Agent: Wang & Ho

20070147934 - Keyboards: A switch comprising a generally tubular housing (10) of a rigid plastics material. A plurality of discrete tabs (12) are circumferentially disposed, in side-by-side relation, around an end of the housing (10). The housing (10) defines a recess (16) for receiving an elastomeric dome member (24) having an annular rib... Agent: Waddey & Patterson, P.C.

20070147935 - Sheet fed continuous motion printing system: Method of printing individual header cards with a limited amount of information, such as a barcode, employing continuous movement of each of the header cards through a gap defined between a backup roll and a thermal printing head, each header card partially wrapping the backup roll only in the immediate... Agent: International Paper Company

20070147936 - Paper roll feed mechanism, paper roll feed cassette, and image forming apparatus: A paper roll feed mechanism rotates a paper roll including recording paper wound in a cylindrical shape to unwind the paper. The paper roll feed mechanism includes the following components. A supporting mechanism rotatably supports the paper roll. At least one paper feed roller unwinds the paper, serving as the... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070147937 - Print tape and print cassette: A print cassette comprises a double-sided adhesive tape composing a print tape. The double-sided adhesive tape from which a release paper is removed so that a second-sided adhesive layer is exposed, can be adhered to an adherend. The second-sided adhesive layer which is in contact with the adherend is made... Agent: Day Pitney LLP

20070147938 - Printer encoder adapted for positioning aboard a mobile unit: A printer/encoder system is provided for mounting to a mobile unit, such as a forklift-type vehicle. The printer/encoder system is adapted for printing and encoding one or more media units that may be stored in a media supply assembly of the printer/encoder system. The printer/encoder system may be mounted to... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070147939 - Rfid label and label producing device: A label producing device for producing an RFID label using a tag label tape with print includes a tape feed roller for feeding the tag label tape with print, a print head for performing printing on a print area provided in a cover film, a half-cut unit for cutting, on... Agent: Day Pitney LLP

20070147940 - Sheet feed tray for image forming apparatus: A sheet feed tray including a regulating wall member being assembled in a displaceable manner with a placing tray, which includes a first tray side engagement portion, and regulating a position of a recording medium such that a wall portion of the regulating wall member contacts with the end portion... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070147941 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus having a housing that includes a front face, a rear wall, a pair of side walls, a bottom surface, and a top surface with a discharge surface formed therein. A cover, having a planar upper surface, is mounted on protrusions extending along each side of the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070140769 - Printer: The present invention provides a printer that includes a clearance gauge which is made of resin, and has formed thereon a cut at the sliding range of platen rollers, which cut extends in a direction perpendicular to the sliding direction. The width of the cut is set up by taking... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070140770 - User interface for a hand-operated printer: A hand-operated printer includes a body, a printhead mounted to the body, a display device mounted to the body, and a user interface communicatively coupled to the display device. The user interface provides a user input to the display device based on movement of the hand-operated printer.... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070140771 - Printing apparatus and printing method: The present invention provides a printing apparatus and method capable of printing an image in a rear end area of a print medium. A sheet is transported by a transport roller and pinch rollers situated upstream of a print head with respect to the transport direction, and by a discharge... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070140772 - Torque coupling: Various embodiments and methods pertaining to torque coupling are disclosed.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070134038 - Apparatus and method for pad printing: The present invention includes apparatus and method for image transfer onto one of a plurality of a pad medium pages while the pages are aggregated together. A preferred embodiment for a printer includes a housing; a print engine, within the housing, for transferring an image to a transfer medium when... Agent: Patent Law Offices Of Michael E. Woods

20070134039 - Dual-sided thermal printing: A dual-sided imaging direct thermal printer includes a switch enabling activation and deactivation of a dual-sided printing function. The printer is configured to allow printing on both sides of a receipt or other sheet media moving along a feed path through the printer and comprises a print head on each... Agent: Douglas S. Foote Intellectual Property Section

20070134041 - Label printer: A first editing application is prepared in a label printer 1 in order to expand data into substantially the same format as that displayed on a display 3 of a computer 2 and print the data expanded on a label L even where the computer 2 is not connected to... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070134040 - Printing process control method and short distance wireless communication terminal apparatus: A printing process control method for use in a terminal apparatus having storing means for storing image data to be printed and control means for performing a short distance wireless communication with a printing apparatus, wherein the control means acquires, from the printing apparatus, information related to the attributes of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070134042 - Rewritable card printer: A rewritable card printer useful as a rewritable card printer. The rewritable card printer includes a print module coupled to one or more separate card magazines, each having independent card drives. The operation of the print module and one or more card magazines are controlled by a printer controller. Cards... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP

20070134043 - Item printing system: An item printing system for printing imprints on moving items, comprising: an item transport path through which items are in use transported in a transport direction; an item transport unit for transporting items through the item transport path; a printing unit (11) for printing imprints on items transported through the... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070134044 - Pre-aging of rollers, gaskets, or o-rings to improve material response to compression set and compression stress relaxation: A platen roller is placed in a fixture. A plurality of pressurizing rollers are placed in the fixture. At least one of the plurality of pressuring rollers applies a pressure to the platen roller to pre-age the roller. A platen roller is placed in a pressurized chamber. A hydrostatic pressure... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070127965 - Apparatus, system, and method for modifying print parameters: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for modifying print parameters. In one embodiment, a scanner automatically scans a print media and/or packaging for the print media. In an alternate embodiment, a RFID interrogator interrogates an RFID for the print media and/or print media packaging. A detection module detects an... Agent: Kunzler & Associates

20070127966 - Printer: A printer allowing changes of a paper size and an ink sheet in an intermediate stage of printing is obtained. This printer comprises a paper tray provided in correspondence to each of a plurality of paper sizes, a paper tray detecting portion for detecting the size of the paper corresponding... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070127967 - Image forming apparatus: A memory 8 stores integral gain values Ki and differences Δ between an actual stop position and a target stop position of the carrier 41 so as to corresponding to each other. A controller 7 calculates each difference between the actual stop position and the target stop position of the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070127968 - Label producing apparatus: A tag label device includes a cartridge, a cartridge holder portion, and an antenna. The cartridge has a first roll around which a cover tape is wound and is detachably mounted in the cartridge holder portion. The cover tape has a plurality of RFID circuit elements To for transmitting and... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070127969 - Perforation forming mechanism for use in an imaging apparatus: An apparatus for perforating a sheet of media includes a perforation forming mechanism including at least one perforation device. The perforation forming mechanism is configured to drive the perforation device through the sheet of media to extend through the sheet of media by a distance.... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070127970 - Inkjet printer having gripless drive roller: An inkjet printer comprising: a media supply; and a gripless driven roller and an idler roller arranged, in use, to take-up the media therebetween from the media supply and feed it past a printhead having a plurality of ink ejection nozzles arranged to print on the media as it is... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070127971 - Easy assembly printer media transport arrangement: A printer comprising: at least one elongate roller arranged, in use, to rotate so as to transport print media within the printer; a support frame for supporting the roller at the longitudinal first and second ends of the roller so as to allow the rotation of the roller; and fixing... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070127972 - Method of assembling printer media transport arrangement: A method of assembling a print media transport arrangement of a printer, the method comprising the steps of: providing a support frame for at least one elongate roller; positioning the roller so as to be supported at its longitudinal first and second ends by the support frame; positioning a bearing... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd