Typewriting machines inventions 03/08

20080069619 - Paper bundle print system, method of controlling paper bundle print system, and paper bundle printer: A paper bundle print system for lifting up and separating paper sheets from a bundle of paper sheets one by one and performing a printing operation on the paper sheet includes: a message acquiring device which acquires a message including a contact name; a storage device which stores the contact... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080069620 - Hand-operated printer and printer dock configured to facilitate auxiliary printing: An imaging apparatus includes a hand-operated printer and a printer dock. The hand-operated printer has a body and a printing mechanism coupled to the body. The printer dock has a cradle configured for removably mounting the hand-operated printer, and has a recessed region formed on the cradle to define a... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20080069621 - Tastatur: The invention relates to a keyboard comprising a housing upper part which has a key array area for arranging a plurality of keys, characterized in that the housing upper part is of wavy design in the key array area.... Agent: Arnold & Knobloch, L.L.P.

20080069622 - Cutter unit, half-cutting mechanism, and tape printer: A cutter unit includes a cutter frame, a scissors-type of full cutter having a fixed blade fixed to the cutter frame and a movable blade pivotally supported on the fixed blade, and a force-cutting half cutter having a straight-tooth cutting blade and a blade-receiving member for receiving the cutting blade... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080069623 - Tape printing apparatus: There is provided a tape printing apparatus capable of improving durability performance of a cutting mechanism constituted of a fixed blade and a movable blade tremendously. The bottom edge portion of an opening portion in a rear frame is formed to be located below the bottommost end portion of the... Agent: Day Pitney LLP

20080069624 - Paper bundle printer and control method for the same: A paper bundle printer includes: a platen roller that is disposed to face a bundle of a plurality of papers; a printing head that prints the bundle of the papers; a platen movement unit that moves the platen roller back and forth between a pick-up position facing the paper on... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080069625 - Keyboard guard apparatus and system: An apparatus and a system is provided that prevents the inadvertent striking of a computer keyboard key by a user's finger. The present invention may be utilized in either Original Equipment fashion or may be retrofitted to an existing computer keyboard to provide the user with an efficient deterrent system... Agent: Rutan & Tucker, LLP.

20080063452 - Label producing apparatus and label producing system: A label producing apparatus has a pressure roller drive shaft for feeding a cover film supplied from a cartridge storing a cover film capable of supply, acquires the arrangement information by accessing a database storing and holding arrangement information of the article to be arranged, and has a print head... Agent: Day Pitney LLP

20080063453 - Inkjet printer with double-side printing function: An inkjet printer with double-side printing function includes a base, a guided component located in the base and a cover covered on the base and the guided component. A second path is located between the base and the guided component. A second path exit is located in the end of... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20080063454 - Detection of donor material use: Selectively printing full and fractional sized images with a donor ribbon. A first print order and indicia are printed while the donor ribbon is advanced through the printer. Printing is performed using donor material on a first fraction of the patch set when the print order requests a fractional sized... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20080063455 - Printing apparatus: The invention relates to a printing apparatus that performs printing by scanning a carriage that has a print head in a main scan direction. The printing apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes: a carriage motor that drives the carriage; a control unit that controls the driving... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080063456 - Deployable keyboard device including displaceable keybutton positions for portable miniature electronic devices: In a miniature keyboard, keybuttons may shift their relative positions from a relatively smaller array when stored to deployment which results in a relatively larger array for active keyboard use. An application for this positional adjustment is the use of the keyboard for inputting data with fingertips when used with... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080063457 - Sheet bundle printer and method of controlling sheet bundle printer: A sheet bundle printer includes a platen roller facing a sheet bundle having peelably adhered multiple sheets of sheet and pulling up an uppermost sheet thereof, a print head feeding the sheet and performing printing thereon while peeling it off with the platen roller, a platen moving device reciprocally moving... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080063458 - Printing machine: A printing machine, in particular a label printing machine or a sheet-fed offset printing press, includes printing units accommodated in a machine support structure that is made at least partially, and preferably entirely, of rock. The rock may be a natural rock, in particular granite, or an artificial rock, in... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080063459 - Printer and emission intensity adjusting method: A printer for performing a printing operation on a printing medium, includes an optical sensor, operable to detect the printing medium; an emission intensity adjuster, operable to adjust emission intensity of a light-emitting element included in the optical sensor; and an output monitor, operable to monitor an output voltage of... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080056793 - Printer: A size-reduced printer that conveys a recording sheet in a circulating manner along a ring-like conveyance path while printing a plurality of images on the recording sheet in different colors sequentially in a superimposed manner, thereby forming a full color image. When a ribbon cassette that contains a multi-color ink... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080056794 - Ribbon cassette and printer using the ribbon cassette: A ribbon cassette of the invention accommodates a driving mechanism configured to move an ink ribbon in a length direction using a driving roller and a driven roller, and an ink replenishing mechanism having a roller-shaped ink tank impregnated with ink and a transfer roller that comes into contact with... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080056795 - Ribbon cassette and printer using the ribbon cassette: In a ribbon cassette of the invention, a driving mechanism that circulates an endless ink ribbon to move to and from a print portion is accommodated in a main body portion of a case. The case has a pair of arm portions serving as an inbound path and an outbound... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080056796 - Sheet bundle printer and sheet bundle printing system: A sheet bundle printer peeling off and performing printing on an uppermost sheet of a peelably adhered sheet bundle includes a print head performing printing on the sheet, a platen roller, at a print position, cooperating with the print head to feed both the sheet and an ink ribbon, pinched... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080056797 - Donor cartridge for thermal printer: A cartridge is provided with a supply housing having at least one exterior surface defining a supply area adapted to receive a donor ribbon of predetermined width and a take-up housing having a main wall that defines a take-up area for receiving donor ribbon of predetermined width. A take-up projection... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20080056798 - Printing apparatus and method of controlling transport of print media for continuous printing: A printing apparatus, including a first roller and a second roller, adapted to transport a plurality of print media on a tray in a transport direction, the second roller disposed at a downstream side, the first roller disposed at an upstream side, includes: a first calculator, operable to calculate a... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080056799 - Sheet retaining structure and printer for an electronic voting device: In order to provide a printer for an electronic voting device, capable of smoothly transporting a recording sheet having a free end and capable of realizing downsizing and simplification, a container (7) includes a main body portion (7d) mounted on to a casing (6a) of a printer (6) and a... Agent: Bruce L. Adams, Esq.

20080056800 - Label printer and printing medium: In a label printer, a top cover made of transparent resin is attached to a housing at a rear upper edge to cover a roll sheet holder storage part and to be freely opened and closed. A roll sheet of a roll sheet holder removably mounted in the roll sheet... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080056801 - Mounting arrangement and support stand for print feed mechanisms: A mounting arrangement and/or stand for supporting a print feed mechanism relative to a printer. The mounting arrangement includes first and second support members defining first and second mating surfaces, respectively. The first support member is adapted to support the print feed mechanism and the second support member is adapted... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive