Typewriting machines inventions 07/08

20080181703 - Printer: A printer includes a feeding device that feeds a tape-like print medium along a length direction of the print medium and a printing device that prints a character on the print medium. The printer further includes a storage device that stores original data including unit data, line feed data, and... Agent: Day Pitney LLP

20080181702 - Tape printing apparatus and computer-readable recording medium storing tape print program: A tape printing apparatus includes an input device, a setting device, and a display device. The apparatus further includes a setting tape width image storage device, a character size image storage device, a tape width acquisition device, a character size acquisition device, a setting tape width image reading device that... Agent: Day Pitney LLP

20080181704 - Extractable ribbon tray and printer utilizing the same: A ribbon tray. The ribbon tray includes: a body, disposed in a printer in an extractable manner; a bearing component, disposed in the body in a freely detachable manner; and a ribbon, disposed on the bearing component.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080181705 - Image forming device and ink sheet cartridge mounted on the image forming device: An ink sheet cartridge includes a cartridge body. The cartridge body has a pair of side plates, a partitioning plate, and a cover segment together defining a frame shape with an central open space. When the ink sheet cartridge is accommodated to a facsimile device, a thermal head and a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080181706 - Tactile force sensor and hybrid stenotype keyboards and method of use: A stenotype keyboard utilizes pressure sensitive tactile sensors to register key presses and output interpreted keystrokes. The pressure sensitive tactile sensors are illuminated internally and create detectible changes to the electromagnetic radiation when compressed. The detectible changes are picked up by sensors and analyzed to determine which keys are pressed... Agent: Thompson Hine L.L.P. Intellectual Property Group

20080181707 - Method for reducing media skew in a media advance mechanism: The method comprises the steps of feeding media from a media roll, arranged about an axis, through an input driving device and an output driving device of the media advance mechanism, wherein the output driving device engages the media with lower friction than said input driving device; releasing said input... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080181709 - Printing apparatus: A printing apparatus comprises supports for holding a roll of print media during printing, said supports being accessible from one side of the printer to insert a roll of print media, and an auxiliary media tray suitable for holding in a stable position a roll of print media placed with... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080181708 - Tape cassette and tape printer: A wireless tag circuit element 25 is arranged at a center position in the height direction of a tape cassette 21 of an outer peripheral wall surface 24 of the tape cassette 21. Information on the tape cassette 21 are stored in an IC circuit part 67 of the wireless... Agent: Day Pitney LLP

20080181710 - Web conveyance method and apparatus of tandem printing system: By executing low-speed conveyance of web by a web feeding mechanism before the printing operation begins, slack W22a, W10a, and W15a in the web located downstream of the guide rollers, and the slacked web is accumulated in the air loop portion, thereby completing the standby for printing. At that time,... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080181711 - Cutter assembly for a printer: A cutter assembly for cutting printed media in a printer comprises a housing arranged for displacement across a media path, in a cutting direction at right angles to a media advance direction in the printer, a first rotary cutting blade carried on said housing such as to be positioned generally... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080181712 - Portable printer: There is disclosed a lightweight portable printer having a frame or housing with a print head and a cooperable platen roll mounted in the housing. The housing pivotally mounts a subassembly. The subassembly mounts an electric motor and gearing driven by the motor for driving the platen roll. The subassembly... Agent: Avery Dennison Corporation

20080181713 - Printing device locking mechanism for consumable enclosures: A user inserts one or more consumable enclosures into one or more corresponding slots of a printing device. The user engages a locking mechanism of the printing device into a corresponding feature of each consumable enclosure. The printing device detects user engagement of the locking mechanism. In response to the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080175641 - Printer ink reduction: A method of printing an image comprises sending a data stream representing the image to a printer driver, generating a stream of print instructions at the printer driver, forwarding the stream of print instructions to a printer, and printing the image in accordance with the print instructions. The data stream... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080175642 - Check processing and deposit ticket printing system: A check processing and deposit ticket printing system which in which checks are scanned and the check information is captured. The check information is received by a first processor to calculate a deposit total and item count. The check information, deposit balance and item count is displayed. The user validates... Agent: James Ray & Associates

20080175643 - Ribbon printer: A ribbon printer assembly and method which allows for margin-less printing is disclosed. The ribbon printer assembly includes a printer media having a first and second side, first side comprises a printable portion and the second side includes an adhesive. The ribbon printer also includes a backing, wider than the... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20080175644 - Thin keypad assemblies and components for electronics devices and methods: A keypad including a plurality of user interface key caps flexibly coupled to a carrier and forming a substantially planar unitary member. The user interface key caps defined by and located between nested slots formed in the substantially planar unitary member wherein the nested slots are devoid of a material... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080175645 - Printer and roll-shaped printing medium therefor: A printer that uses a roll-shaped printing medium comprising a printing surface on which images are printed, a releasably adhered printing portion, and a release portion holding the adhered printing portion includes a conveying device conveying the printing medium while pulling out the printing medium by a predetermined amount every... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20080175646 - Flat panel display unit with integrated printer: The invention provides for a flat panel display unit. The unit includes a rear cover molding defining an aperture therein, a base portion, arm and mounting plate fast with the rear cover molding to support the display unit in an upright position, and a pagewidth printer with an ink delivery... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080170899 - Signal output apparatus, image forming apparatus and information output apparatus: A signal output apparatus comprises an impact applying unit applying an impact to a sheet from the outside thereof, and a detection unit outputting a signal by the impact. An apparatus for determining the type of sheet comprises an impact applying unit applying an impact to a sheet from the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080170900 - Hand-held printer guides: A hand-held printer includes at least one print nozzle and a guide for maintaining the alignment of the at least one print nozzle relative to an object. The guide is operable to operable to maintain the position of the at least one print nozzle relative to the object while the... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20080170901 - Image forming apparatus and method of controlling the same: An image forming apparatus and a method to control the same. The image forming apparatus variably outputs the PWM signal until the printing medium reaches the target position, accelerates the printing medium-feeding motor, and decelerates the printing medium-feeding motor in multi-stages. If the printing medium reaches the target position, the... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080170902 - Printer apparatus: A printer apparatus includes a supply unit to supply recording media, a recording unit to record information to the recording media, and a storage unit to store the recording media. A tray is formed in at least one of the supply unit and the storage unit and detachably connected to... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20080166166 - Method and apparatus for perforating a printable surface: A perforating print head for a printing device comprising a frame assembly, a plurality of perforating printing assemblies coupled to the frame assembly, each having an impact element further comprising a first end for impacting a printable media surface and a second end suitable for receiving a driving force, and... Agent: Ibm Corporation (swp)

20080166167 - Tape drive and printing apparatus: A tape drive for use in for example a transfer printing apparatus to drive a printer ribbon. The printer ribbon is mounted on two spools each of which is driven by a respective stepper motor. A controller controls the energization of the motor such that the ribbon is transported in... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P. A.

20080166168 - Method and device for reducing the number of actions required to operate a computer or other device: The present invention is a method and embodied keyboard that does not require the use of the Shift key to produce character output to a computer system. It has the ability to produce a group of characters such as whole words and/or partial words with a single key press. It... Agent: Ernest V. Glover, Sr.

20080166169 - Print media feed system and control method for the same: A print media feed system comprises: drive means for moving a feed roller; sensing means for sensing movement of a feed roller; detection means for detecting movement of a pinch roller; and a controller arranged to control the drive means using a gain parameter and signals provided by the detection... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080166170 - Printer protective cover with integrated message display: A cover device for a point-of-sale receipt printer comprising, a base having a retention mechanism to attach the cover device to the point-of-sale receipt printer; a front dam of the base that helps prevent falling objects from being discharged from the top front area of the base into equipment adjacent... Agent: Mcnair Law Firm, P.A.

20080166171 - Printer with set spacing between a print engine and an exit roller assembly: This invention relates to a printer having a housing, a print engine, and inlet and exit roller assemblies. The housing has an upper cover, a lower cover, a first side wall and a second, opposed side wall. The print engine is housed within the housing and has two print head... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080159797 - Card issuing apparatus: A printer apparatus has a card supply unit that supplies a card formed with a magnetic strip for recording information, and a card conveyance path for conveying the card supplied from the supply unit using the direction of the formation of the magnetic strip as the conveyance direction. The apparatus... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20080159798 - System for processing mass-fabricated items with three-dimensional codes: In the processing of mass-produced items that include a three-dimensional code formed therein, a system is provided for automating certain post-manufacturing processing steps. The system includes a printing mechanism that applies ink to the three-dimensional code to form an optically-readable code; a code-reading mechanism that reads the optically readable code... Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20080159799 - Keyboard for a computer: A keyboard for a computer. The keyboard comprises a plurality of keys for providing both digital and analog inputs. Additionally, the keyboard comprises keys for functions such as activating a camera or a microphone, scrolling windows on a computer screen, and so forth. The keys are covered with a flexible... Agent: William L. Botjer

20080159800 - Printing system, cutting device, and cuttting method: A printing system comprising: a printing device having a printing portion and a printing control portion; and a cutting device having a cutting portion which cuts a continuous sheet, a conveying portion conveying the continuous sheet, a detecting portion detecting cutting information, and a cutting control portion which controls the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080159801 - Print media loading mechanism having displaceable endless belts: A print media loading mechanism for a modular printer assembly includes a drive assembly. A traversing mechanism is engaged with the drive mechanism. A pair of endless belt and roller assemblies is operatively engaged with the traversing mechanism, so that actuation of the drive assembly displaces the traversing mechanism to... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd