Typewriting machines inventions 07/07

20070172280 - Methods and apparatus for printing of personalized publications: A method for preparing and printing a personalized book utilizing a software package installed on a personal computer is provided, wherein the method includes entering, via one or more graphical user interfaces displayed on the computer, personalization features for at least one character in the book, and editing, via one... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20070172284 - Image forming apparatus, image forming method and image forming program: An image forming apparatus, including an image forming section to form a cover image on a cover sheet to cover bundled printing sheets with the cover sheet folded in a U-shape, based on image data of the cover sheet, and a control section to determine a cover image forming area... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070172283 - Image forming system, image forming apparatus and program for use therein: An image forming system includes: a page image input section which inputs page images including at least a text image and a spine image; a stamp setting section which establishes stamp setting information that indicates forming of a stamp image onto the page images inputted by the page image input... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070172281 - Image forming apparatus, image forming system, and information processing apparatus: An image forming system or the like may be installed at a public location such as a computer center of university to serve people who want to print for various purposes. Restrictions may be placed on the use of the system. Restriction on the use of the system may be... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070172282 - Method for reducing banding in an imaging apparatus: A method for reducing banding during printing with an imaging apparatus includes establishing a current original move length; determining a current original absolute position; calculating a current adjusted absolute position based on the current original absolute position; determining a current difference between the current original absolute position and the current... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070172285 - Printing apparatus: To allow continuous paper to be printed a plurality of times with a time difference by ink jet printer equipment and dried each time of printing while preventing condensation from occurring on an ink discharge surface of print head at and after the second time of printing, there is provided... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070172286 - Ribbon cassette for mailing machine: A thermal ink ribbon cassette for a mailing machine has an anti-reverse spring for preventing rotation of the take-up spindle in the unwinding direction; a constant-tension drag arrangement, including an expansible stub axle, a cooperating expansion member, and a drag gear mounted on the stub axle in meshing engagement with... Agent: Ira S. Dorman

20070172287 - Keyboard and keys: In a preferred form, a keyboard has a single row of eight multi-position keys with the letters arranged in a standard QWERTY keyboard configuration. The eight keys correspond to the eight fingers used when touch typing; each finger operates one key, and that key contains all the letters that the... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20070172288 - Press key structure: A press key structure comprises two first plates disposed between a casing and a circuit board, wherein one side of each first plate is exposed to the outside of the casing, the other side thereof faces the circuit board and includes a groove, and each of the grooves includes a... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070172291 - Device for producing tags for patient wristbands, a system for producing tags for patient wristbands, and a print medium: A print medium web comprising a tag printing area, an insertion tab area, and a perforation extending along a length of said print medium web, said perforation dividing said print medium web into said tag printing area and said insertion tab area.... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070172290 - Tag label producing device: The tag-label producing device includes: a cartridge holder for selectively installing a first roll and a first roll; a tape feed roller, a ribbon take-up roller, and a switching mechanism that impart a drive force in the tape length direction to this tape; an antenna for performing transmission/reception of information... Agent: Day Pitney LLP

20070172289 - Paper compartment cover for printer: A paper compartment cover can be unlocked to load a printer with a paper roll. A top cover is pivotally mounted on a flexible arm, and carries a platen in simple round journals with an opening for the snap-in assembly of the platen in the top cover. A lever shaft... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070172292 - Printer having removable handling apparatus for printed roll media: A roll media printer is provided having a printhead for printing on a media web conveyed along a path defmed between a loading area and a winding area to produce printed media, and a handling apparatus removably retained in the winding area. The handling apparatus has a core located within... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070172293 - Tape printer: A tape printer for use with a tape cassette and an ink ribbon cassette, the printer comprising a housing and a printhead having a line of printing elements thereon, wherein said printer comprises at least one cassette receiving portion in said housing for receiving the tape cassette and the ink... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070172294 - Device for printing receipts using two printing units, particularly on thermal paper, and related printing method: A printing device (11) for printing receipts (12), each bearing constant data (41a) that render the receipt (12) identifiable, and variable data (41b), indicating the operations to be documented on the receipt in question, comprising: a roll (16) of thermal paper suitable for feeding a continuous ribbon (16a) of thermal... Agent: Venable LLP

20070172295 - Print engine with end moldings: A print engine for a printer includes an elongate support frame. A pinch roller assembly is rotationally mounted relative to the support frame and can engage and feed the print media along a print media path. A pair of opposed print head assemblies is mounted on the elongate support frame... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070172296 - Printer: A printing head is operable to perform printing on a printing medium at a printing area. A first roller is adapted to transport the printing medium in a first direction toward the printing area. A second roller is disposed in a downstream side of the printing area in the first... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070172297 - Input tray point of sale display (pos): A printer includes an input tray, a printer body, an output tray, and a point of sale display. Paper is fed through an input tray into the printer, the printer body disperses ink to form colors, text, or images, and the output tray of the printer receives the paper after... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20070166090 - Method and apparatus for printing: A printing apparatus includes a base coupled to a copying device and a printing device. A feed mechanism is provided which is operable to couple to the base in one of either a first position or a second position, whereby the feed mechanism is operable to feed a document to... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070166091 - Keyboard arrangement: A handheld mobile communication device having a physical keyboard with a first set of keys having indicia associated with the letters A-Z arranged in a standard alphabetic keyboard arrangement and a second set of keys having indica for the numerals 0-9. The numerals are arranged in a numeric phone key... Agent: Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP (rim Prosecution)

20070166092 - Portable printer and method: There is disclosed a portable printer operable in either a strip mode or a peel mode. In the peel mode, a pressure roll cooperates with a carrier web and the platen roll to strip labels from the web. A battery-powered electric motor advances a printable web through the printer. In... Agent: Paxar Americas, Inc. Attn: Joseph J. Grass

20070166093 - Automatic opening device for a printer gate: An automatic opening device for a printer having an openable/closeable gate for providing access to a printer housing for housing a paper roll onto which information is to be printed and housing other printer parts, comprising a rotatable shaft for carrying a printer roll for printing onto paper carried by... Agent: Lackenbach Siegel, LLP

20070160403 - Print control apparatus, print apparatus, print system, print method, and storage medium: A print control apparatus enables a user to select an arbitrary print mechanism among a plurality of print mechanisms of a print apparatus. To this end, the print control apparatus can display a screen showing two or more print mechanisms usable in the print apparatus. The print control apparatus can... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070160401 - Unauthorized copy preventing device and method thereof, and program: The pattern (pattern characteristic quantity) extracted from the pattern image carried by original printing paper is stored on the original printing paper and the validity of the original printing paper is verified according to the pattern stored on code-added printing paper at the time of copying the printed contents of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070160402 - System and method for improving print quality on mail pieces having low reflectivity: A printing system is provided that dynamically adjusts the method of printing an image based on the lightness or darkness of the medium upon which the image will be printed. The reflectivity of the medium upon which an image is to be printed is determined, and the way in which... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20070160404 - Braille pen writer: A Braille writing instrument has a housing which has a first end and a second end, extending in a first direction. Six plungers are positioned near the first end, arranged in a first column of three plungers and a second column of three plungers. The first and second columns are... Agent: Ronald L. Yin

20070160405 - Printer: There is provided a printer which can suppress the variations in rotation speed of a platen and the forwarding speed of a recording medium when a recording unit abuts on a platen through the recording medium. The printer of the present invention includes a platen, a recording unit, and a... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070160406 - Printer: A printer (2) for printing security cards (14) in which two pairs of pinch rollers (22, 24) convey a substrate (14) past a print head (20). A cam follower (42) is driven by a cam (40) and is mounted on shafts of lower rollers (22a, 24a) of the pinch rollers... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070160407 - Printer: A printer is provided. The printer includes a platen that is operative to rotate and support a forwarded recording medium. A plurality of recording units are operative to freely move in contacting and separating directions about the platen and perform a printing operation in contact with the recording medium. A... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070160408 - Packaging and method for making the same: A method of manufacturing a package is provided, comprising a first and second layer attached by a sealing process to create a peelable seal. The package also includes perforation cuts at regular intervals. A traverse cut is provided through both the first and second layer that traverses the perforation cut... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070160409 - Image forming apparatus having structure for flexibly supporting feeding roller: A feeding roller is rotatable about an imaginary rotational axis extending in an axial direction and is configured to be rotatingly driven in a rotational direction for feeding a recording medium to a conveying path. A supporting section rotatably supports the feeding roller at a position in confrontation with the... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070160410 - Printer cradle having shock absorption for removable print cartridge: A printer cradle is provided having a recess with an inclined face for receiving and removably locating a print cartridge, a retainer for removably retaining the print cartridge within the recess, and resilient members arranged to act against the print cartridge as it is located by the inclined face and... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070154250 - Six-sided printing method: An improved sheet printer is provided capable of simultaneously printing both on a “main” surface of a sheet of print media and along edges of that same sheet of print media, such that when the sheets are stacked after being printed, a predetermined image will appear along one or more... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070154251 - Labeling article including a stack of labels, sheet feeding cassette to which label is attached and image forming apparatus equipped with sheet feeding cassette: A labeling article including a stack of labels, each label having a front face on which at least one of a size and a type of a printing sheet to be contained in a sheet feeding cassette is written, and a back face provided with an adhesive part on which... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070154252 - Member mounting arrangement: A member mounting arrangement mounts a proximity mounting member to a proximity object at a predetermined position relative thereto. The arrangement includes an intermediate fixing member attached to a fixing frame supporting the proximity object, the intermediate fixing member being adjustable in position in a direction to/from the proximity object,... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.