Typewriting machines inventions 08/07

20070201926 - Apparatus and print processing method: An apparatus is configured to allow a user to make a selection as to whether printing of print data is performed according to print setting is specified to be unchangeable, or according to restriction information indicating restriction in printing instructed by the user.... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070201927 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is provided which includes a printing device, an image orientation identification device, a medium orientation identification device, a conversion device, and a prohibition device. The printing device prints an image represented by image data onto a recording medium. The image orientation identification device identifies orientation of... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070201928 - Head support structure, printing device, thermally activating device, and printer: Provided is a head support structure including: a thermal head (11) for heating a sheet material (5); a platen roller (12) for transporting the sheet material (5) being pressed by the thermal head (11); a head support member (13) for supporting the thermal head (11), which is capable of moving... Agent: Bruce L. Adams, Esq.

20070201929 - Printer and method of controlling the same: A scale is provided with a plurality of marks or slits arranged in a first direction such that a distance between centers of adjacent marks or slits in the first direction assumes a first length. An encoder is opposing the scale and includes: a photo emitter, operable to emit light;... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070201930 - Image forming apparatus: A multifunction apparatus includes a belt drive mechanism configured to move a carriage reciprocally placed on guide rails. The belt drive mechanism is comprised of a drive pulley, a driven pulley, and a timing belt, which is stretched between the drive pulley and the driven pulley. The carriage includes a... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070201931 - Front rear switchable keyboard: A keyboard with a more standard qwerty key pattern on a top surface where an operators hands approach the keyboard from a front side for use as a standard keyboard for front data input and then the same keyboard electronically switches to two separate more 90 degree key patterns on... Agent: James H. Bowen

20070201932 - Digit-operated input device: A digit-operated input device used for entering data into an electronic device includes: a dragging line, a digit locator, a press sensor, and a control unit. One end of the dragging line is connected to a user's digit while the other end is connected to the digit locator, which outputs... Agent: Pai Patent & Trademark Law Firm

20070201933 - Feeding system for image forming machine: There is provided a feeding system for an image forming machine using a first feeder roll and a press roll that form a nip between them though which a substrate is passed, and a second feeder roll located after a printing zone, where the first and second feeder roll surfaces... Agent: Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc.

20070201934 - Print medium and tape producing apparatus: An object of the disclosure is to provide a print medium including an upper and lower parts on which characters are printable and dividing the printed upper and lower parts well without using scissors or the like, while allowing adhering to anything without dividing the upper and lower parts when... Agent: Day Pitney LLP

20070201935 - Printing device that reliably feeds recording medium from feeding cassette to conveying roller: A conveying roller is disposed downstream of a feeding roller in a conveying direction and conveys a sheet of recording medium to a printing position along a conveying path. A medium detecting unit is disposed between the feeding roller and the conveying roller along the conveying path and detects the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070201936 - Conveyance apparatus: A conveyance apparatus includes a platen having a flat supporting surface that supports a conveyor belt, from its inside, being stretched between first and second rollers. The apparatus further includes an encoder roller disposed between the first roller and the platen so as to be in contact with the conveyor... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070201937 - Sheet tray device and image forming apparatus having the sheet tray device: A sheet tray device including (a) a first tray and (b) a second tray which is disposed on an upper side of the first tray and which includes (b-1) a support member which bridges between opposite side walls of the first tray and which is movable relative to the opposite... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070201938 - Locking mechanism for cover: A locking mechanism for a cover is provided which locks the cover in a closed state. The locking mechanism includes a slider that is elastically urged in a direction perpendicular to the opening and closing direction of the cover so as to suppress movement of the slider in one direction... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070196154 - Control system for printing apparatus and information processing apparatus: An appropriate maintenance such as appropriate registration adjustment can be executed even if a status for the maintenance cannot be acquired from a printing apparatus. Specifically, if a status cannot be acquired from the printer, a printer driver refers to a history of number of past instructions for registration adjustment... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070196153 - Lenticular printer: Method and system for obtaining automatic alignment of interlaced images to a lenticular sheet and adaptation between the pitch distance thereof. An interlaced file that includes digital data that comprises linear orientation and pitch distance data and corresponds to linear frames of two different images is obtained. A lenticular sheet... Agent: Fleit Kain Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco

20070196155 - Image recording apparatus: An image recording apparatus, including a sheet-supply tray device which accommodates and holds a plurality of recording sheets and which supplies the recording sheets, one by one, in a sheet-supply direction; and an image recording device which records an image on each of the recording sheets supplied from the sheet-supply... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070196157 - Image forming apparatus and opening/closing method of re-conveyance mechanism: An ADU is turned around a first hole section that operates as fulcrum and opened by a first angle relative to the lateral side of an apparatus main body when dissolving a jam. The lateral side cover is temporarily taken away from a stationary side plate when maintenance the inside... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070196156 - Computer keyboard and mouse security shield: A security shield for a computer keyboard and mouse that prevents an unauthorized user from accessing the computer in the absence of the authorized user. The security shield consists of a rigid protective cover that is hingedly connected on one side to a base plate. A “U” shaped hasp is... Agent: Brown & Michaels, PC 400 M & T Bank Building

20070189826 - Printing apparatus and control program for a printing apparatus recorded in computer-readable recording medium: This disclosure provides a printing apparatus which enables a user to adjust easily and appropriately a direction of an image that is to be printed onto a recording object medium. When a user gives instructions for the execution of option printing, a personal computer displays on its monitor an option... Agent: Day Pitney LLP

20070189825 - Paper thickness compensation in a printer: In a printer, page thickness is compensated for by measuring a displacement between a printhead and a print media support surface. A sensor flag engages a surface of said print media and provides an indication to an optical sensor of the displacement. The print media support surface may be a... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070189827 - Methods and apparatus for media selection in cluster printing systems: Methods and apparatus are provided for specifying media in cluster printing systems that include printers that use device-specific media selection techniques, such as paper catalogs, media tray pulldown menus and media attribute pulldown menus.... Agent: Law Office Of James Trosino

20070189828 - Printing apparatus: A printing apparatus includes a substrate storage module including first and second sides, and a printing module, the storage module including a store of substrates to be printed upon, and a transport mechanism for transporting the substrates to the adjacent printing module, and the printing module including a print head,... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070189829 - Transfer tool: In order to provide a good transferable and extremely usable transfer tool in which consumable supplies can be easily replaced while increasing rigidity in use and case assembling procedure is also simple, the transfer tool (A) includes a case body (1) which incorporates a transfer material (T), the case body... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070189830 - Printing apparatus and printing method: In a conventional printing apparatus with a plurality of paper feed ports, since a paper type limits the paper feed port usable for paper feed, a user must know in advance a paper feed port to set a paper sheet. This arrangement is not user-friendly. A printing apparatus according to... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070189831 - Slitting mechanism for roll media printer: A slitting mechanism for a roll media printer is provided. The slitting mechanism has a rotatable carousel of rotatable slitting shafts which extend across the width of a media web arranged to pass the slitting shafts along a path. Each slitting shaft has at least one slitter misaligned with at... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070183829 - Exercise keyboard: An exercise keyboard including a substantially vertical keyboard array of keypads arranged for typing alphanumeric letters by pushing of keypads of the array so as to type one the letter per the push of one of the keypads. Each keypad is padded so as to accommodate the pushing of the... Agent: Antony C. Edwards

20070183830 - Printer: A roll paper printer having a cover movable between an open and closed position with the printer having hooks on locking levers disposed to the cover to hold the cover in the locked position upon engaging pins located on the printer body side and having an opening lever to unlock... Agent: Anderson, Kill & Olick, P.C.

20070183831 - Sticky note printer and method of controlling the same: In a sticky note printer, a sticky note is peeled off and fed one by one from a bundle of notes set in position. In empty-feed motion, the sticky note is fed in a normal direction from a peel-off position through a sticky note ejecting slot to a pull-out position... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070183832 - Sheet guide apparatus and image forming apparatus: A sheet guide apparatus including a sheet tray in which a sheet is placed and a side guide having an abutting portion that abuts the sheet placed in the sheet tray. The sheet tray includes a groove formed along a direction perpendicular to an abutting surface of the abutting portion... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070183833 - Trough support ribs and method of use: An improved method of edge-to-edge printing on media in a printer having a printhead disposed above an ink trough, the ink trough has a plurality of sections formed by a plurality of trough support ribs within the ink trough, comprises indexing a leading edge of media to a first position... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070177918 - Print engine assembly with overlapping ink printing ic's: A print engine assembly includes an elongate chassis. A pair of bearing moldings is operatively mounted to either end of the chassis. A printhead assembly is mounted within the chassis. The printhead assembly includes an elongate printhead having a plurality of ink printing integrated circuits (IC's) each disposed at an... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070177919 - Image forming apparatus, data processing method thereof, and computer-readable recording medium storing program of the method: An image forming apparatus is disclosed. The image forming apparatus includes a data receiving section connected to a computer via a network for receiving a command from the computer, a command processing section for processing the command received by the data receiving section, a command interpreting section for interpreting the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070177920 - Approach for implementing locked printing on printing devices: An approach is provided for implementing locked printing on a printing device. The printing device includes a user interface configured to display information and accept user input. The printing device includes a locked print process that is configured to examine print data received by the printing device and determine whether... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070177921 - Staggered keyboard for a portable device: A staggered keyboard for use with a portable device is provided. The staggered keyboard includes a plurality of keys arranged into a plurality of rows of keys. For each row of keys, the labeling of the keys is arranged in either a linear or an arced relationship depending upon the... Agent: David B. Cochran, Esq. Jones Day

20070177922 - Supplying media to a self threading color web printer: A method of supplying a media web to a wallpaper printer. the method includes opening a reusable case, placing into the case a core onto which has been located a supply roll of a blank media web and supporting the core for rotation within the case. then, leading a free... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070177923 - Platen and printer: A platen according to the invention has a metallic plate integrated thereto in such a manner that the plate surface is parallel to the direction of impact pressure applied from a printing section. Accordingly the platen has sufficient strength and rigidity even though being made of plastic, so that the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070177924 - Web printer with straight print media path: A web printer is provided for printing web patterns on print media. The web printer includes a cabinet. A plurality of ink reservoirs is mounted, in a releasable manner, within the cabinet and store respective types of ink to be printed. A print media cartridge is mounted, in a releasable... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd