Abstract: A media supply cartridge includes a media case having a molded top half and a molded bottom half, both halves defining arcuate slots; a media roll assembly rotatably provided within the media case, the media roll assembly having a shaft received in the arcuate slots of the media case and a roll of media wound around the shaft; a roller assembly for ejecting blank media from the media roll assembly out of the media case, the roller assembly including a cartridge drive roller and an idler roller; and media roller support moldings provided at each end of the shaft, the media roller support moldings being restrainedly received in locator slots defined in the media case. The shaft is provided with a notch at each end thereof to engage cooperating nibs on each support molding, the engagement of the notches with nibs restraining the shaft from rotating.

Abstract: A media cartridge is provided having a shaft about which media is rotatably wound, a drive roller for drawing the media from about the shaft, and a support member mounting the shaft and drive roller to the cartridge. A groove in the drive roller engages with a lunette of the support member so that the drive roller protrude from the cartridge.

Abstract: A direct thermal barcode printer including a print assembly is provided. The print assembly is movably positioned relative to a print media for adjusting printing characteristics of an attached print head.

Abstract: A point of sale terminal that is capable of printing on a roll of paper is provided with a compartment defining an upper surface and an opposite lower surface, a left side and a right side between the upper and lower surfaces, and a rear surface between the upper and lower surfaces. The terminal also includes a display and a keypad disposed on the upper surface, and a printer with a paper roller and a printing mechanism for receiving and printing on the roll of paper. The printer is disposed within the compartment, and a door is provided in the lower surface of the compartment for insertion of the roll of paper. The compartment is provided with an exit for the paper adjacent the rear surface.

Abstract: A printer, which prints by repeatedly reciprocating a rolled recording paper and ejects a printed recording paper, has therein a recording paper storage unit in which the recording paper is temporarily stored. The recording paper storage unit has a configuration formed by at least a part of the periphery of the rolled recording paper or a configuration provided in a space between the rolled paper holder and an ejection slot. This configuration eliminates the need for separately providing a configuration in which a recording paper is set aside when printing a long sheet of printed material and, at the same time, makes the printer smaller.

Abstract: A method for printing wallpaper onto a web of media is provided. In the method one or more collections of patterns are provided, a selection of a pattern from the one or more collections by an operator is captured, the selection being communicated by input of a symbol of the selected pattern, and the wallpaper is produced, on demand, according to the captured pattern selection by utilizing an printer configured to print onto the web of media to produce the wallpaper.

Abstract: A printing cartridge is provided which has a rotatable core for a roll of print media, and a print media delivery arrangement having an opening in the cartridge which is arranged to enable a roller of a print media drive mechanism of a printer to which the cartridge is removably mounted to contact a wound portion of the roll of print media so as to feed an unwound portion of the print media from the roll through the printer on demand operation of the roller on the wound portion.

Abstract: A housing includes a hollow body case having a communicating portion that communicates the interior and the exterior with each other; a first shaft accommodated in the body case and supporting a recording medium wound into roll form; and a second shaft accommodated in the body case and taking up the recording medium that is let out from the interior of the body case to the exterior from the first shaft via the communicating portion and again introduced from the exterior of the body case into the interior via the communicating portion. The second shaft is movable relative to the body case so that the shortest distance to the inner circumferential surface of the body case increases as the second shaft takes up the recording medium.

Abstract: A printing roll release and retainer mechanism to facilitate the insertion of a printing roller into a printing head of a thermal printer and to facilitate the locking thereof to the printing head and to facilitate the removal of the printing roller from the printing head wherein a holder is provided for receiving and permitting withdrawal of the printing roller and a pair of oppositely spaced members is provided for to hold the shaft roller.

Abstract: A cartridge that is detachable from a printing apparatus that includes a printing unit that prints onto a print medium and a cutter member that cuts the print medium, the cartridge comprises a print medium containment portion that contains print medium that are consumed along with printing operations performed by the printing unit, a cut piece collection portion that collects cut pieces of the print medium resulting from cutting operations performed by the cutter member are formed integrally in the cartridge and a partition member that separates the print medium containment portion from the cut piece collection portion, wherein the partition member is movable.

Abstract: 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 holder storage part is visible through the transparent resinous top cover. The roll sheet is provided with a plurality of medium information marks by printing. The medium information marks are visible through the top cover.

Abstract: A label roll rack is provided for a barcode printer and includes a shaft rod and at least one retention bar. The shaft rod has an end coupled to a housing of the barcode printer to receive a label roll to fit thereon, serving as a support axle for the label roll. The shaft rod forms on surfaces thereof sliding slots extending in a horizontal axial direction. The retention bar has a lower end forming opposite coupling sections each having an inside surface forming a projection, which is fit in the respective sliding slot of the shaft rod to make the retention bar substantially normal to and realizing a retention condition with respect to the shaft rod, wherein the retention bar is movable in the horizontal axial direction for positioning and retaining label rolls of various sizes fit on the shaft rod.

Abstract: 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 least one of the slitters of the other slitting shafts. Each slitter has a cutting edge. The slitting mechanism is selectively movable and the carousel is selectively rotatable to a plurality of cutting positions within the path. Each cutting position results in a different width of roll media being output from the printer.

Abstract: The device (18) for detecting end of paper comprises a support (43) mounted on a wall (26) of a printer (10) of receipts, obtained from a tape (12) of paper wound on a roll (14), contained in a housing (15) of the printer (10). The printer (10) is preferentially employed at a Point Of Sale (POS) and may be arranged on a horizontal work plane (21) set on its base (22), or inclined by about 90°, on a front wall (24). As a result, the roll (14) is set into the housing (15) alternatively in two positions, corresponding to the inclination assumed by the printer. A detecting lever (54) in hinge-mounted on the support (43) and is provided with two arms (55, 56) spread apart, forming an angle of approximately 120°.

Abstract: A roll paper printer comprising a roll paper storage unit having a bottom surface on which a roll paper is held and rolls, an operable cover unit for opening and closing a roll paper loading opening to the roll paper storage unit, a roll paper size detection mechanism comprising a detection lever that can move in a direction protruding into the roll paper storage unit and a direction retracting from the roll paper storage unit, and an urging member for urging the detection lever in the protruding direction, wherein the detection lever separates from the roll paper and is pushed in the protruding direction when an outside diameter of the roll paper stored in the roll paper storage unit decreases to a predetermined size or less, and a detection lever retraction mechanism for moving the detection lever protruding into the roll paper storage unit in the retracting direction against the urging force of the urging member in conjunction with the operable cover unit opening.

Abstract: A low paper sensor mechanism including first and second support rollers rotatable about a first and second rotational axis to support a paper supply roll, the first and second support rollers and rotational axes configured to translate in a path between a first position and a second position, first and second biasing members biasing the first and second support rollers toward the second position and a detection device, including a light emitting element and a light detecting element, disposed adjacent to the first and second support rollers, wherein the first and second support rollers move from the first position to the second position when a diameter of the paper supply roll is less than or equal to the predetermined distance between the first and second support rollers and the paper supply roll disrupts a line of sight between the light emitting element and the light detecting element.

Abstract: A label printing apparatus comprising a cassette receiving bay arranged to receive a cassette; and an engagement member. The engagement member is movable between a first position, in which the engagement member is engaged with the cassette, and a second position in which the engagement member is disengaged with the cassette.

Abstract: A cassette is provided which includes a supply of label material and a brake. The brake has a first position and a second position. In the first position, the supply is clamped by the brake. In the second position, the supply is removable from the cassette.

Abstract: A label printing apparatus comprising a cassette receiving bay arranged to receive a cassette; and a cassette positioning mechanism. The cassette positioning mechanism is arranged to move a cassette inserted into the cassette receiving bay into a position in which printing can take place.

Abstract: A printer having one roller of a transportation roller pair attached to cover renders the mechanism pressing the transportation roller pair together and the damping mechanism used when opening the cover using few parts, compactly, and at low cost. A damper spring 27 prevents the cover unit 3 of the printer 1 from opening suddenly and forcefully. A roller support lever 38 having the first follower roller 33b disposed to the distal end thereof is attached rotatably and movably to the cover unit 3. The roller support lever 38 is urged by the damper spring 27, and the first follower roller 33b on the distal end thereof is pressed to the first transportation roller 33a on the printer frame 11 side. The damper spring 27 functions as the damping mechanism when the cover unit 3 opens, and as the pressure mechanism of the first transportation roller pair 33 when the cover unit 3 is closed.

Abstract: An object of the disclosure is to provide a print cassette for producing a print tape comprising a structure which can avoid a bad effect on a feeding performance of a film tape in the print cassette and handling of a print tape when stuck to an adherend even when an adopted to-be-printed medium is a thin-film. A print tape 5 produced in a print cassette is composed of a first tape 11 and a second tape 13. In the first tape 11, a first base material 31 and a to-be-printed medium 33 are stacked via a first adhesive layer 32. In the second tape 13, a second adhesive layer 51 is stacked to a second base material 52. Then, a printing surface 11A of the first tape 11 on which ink 41 is put and the second adhesive layer 51 are overlapped with each other, so that the second tape 13 adhered to the first tape 11 to compose the print tape 5.

Abstract: A printer is provided for producing printed media web which has a printhead extending at least the width of a media web, drive means to drive the media web past the printhead, and a winding area for removably receiving a container for the printed media web. The drive means is configured to drive the printed media web from the printhead through an opening in a container received in the winding area so that the printed media web is wound onto a rotatable core of the container. The container is closable about the opening so as contain the wound printed media web therein.

Abstract: A thermal sublimation imaging apparatus and a thermal sublimation printer using the same are described. A print head of the thermal sublimation imaging apparatus is fixed, a platen capable of contacting or separating from the fixed print head is lifted up to contact the fixed print head, and an elastic component is used in conjunction to provide a pressure for printing. The platen lays flat in paper feed/reverse mode, and presses downwardly to drive a paper pickup plate to fetch paper. These actions are achieved by a stepper motor together with a sensor through a worm shaft, a worm gear, and at least a gear. Therefore, the number and the cost of the gears are reduced, and the time for switching the printing action is greatly reduced since the switching can be implemented within a very small rotation angle.

Abstract: A tape printer capable of separating a print head and a platen when the print head and the platen adhere to each other while the tape printer is stored with a tape cassette uninstalled, keeping a holding member at a pressing position. A cassette cover has a pressing cam part which comes into contact with a roller holder to press the roller holder to a pressing position in a closed state of the cassette cover, and a withdrawing cam part which presses a withdrawing cam receiver to return the roller holder to a withdrawing position in the process of shifting from the closed state to an opened state of the cassette cover. Accordingly, the withdrawing cam part forces the withdrawing cam receiver provided in the roller holder, so that the thermal head and the platen roller which have adhered to each other can be surely separated even after the tape printer is stored for a long period with the tape cassette uninstalled, keeping the roller holder at the pressing position.

Abstract: A web-fed printing press is disclosed. The press having at least one printing unit for printing at least one printing substrate web, and having at least one processing device for processing the at least one printing substrate web, a control device for controlling the at least one processing device, and a fastening device for arranging the at least one processing device at an arbitrary web feed position between a reel changer of the web-fed printing press and an exit of a folding unit of the web-fed printing press in such a way that the at least one processing device is able to process the printing substrate web on an upper side and/or on a lower side and/or on one or both edges of the same.

Abstract: 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 to support the first support member. Furthermore, the first and second mating surfaces define a mating interface or plane which is inclined relative to a horizontal plane. The relative position of the first and second support members is maintained by a means for coupling the first and second segments along the inclined mating plane. The coupling means is, furthermore, operative to selectively position the first support member relative to the second support member so as to separate the print feed mechanism segment from the printer by a fixed separation distance.

Abstract: A first frame member has an accommodating section adapted to accommodate a rolled sheet at a rear side of the first frame member. A print head is operable to perform printing with respect to a part drawn out from the rolled sheet. A second frame member is provided with the print head and supported on a front side of the first frame member so as to be movable between a first position and a second position. A locking mechanism locks the second frame member at the first position. A release lever releases the locked state of the second frame member when the release lever is pulled toward the second frame member. User access with respect to at least the accommodating section is allowed when the second frame member is placed in the second position.

Abstract: A printing system is provided having a support structure, a print media drive mechanism mounted to the support structure and a media cartridge removably received by the support structure. The media cartridge has a casing housing a roll of print media and a print media delivery arrangement. The casing has a door which is arranged to be opened to enable the print media delivery arrangement to couple with the print media drive mechanism for feeding the print media from the roll. The print media drive mechanism has a pivotal carrier, a first drive motor arranged to impart pivotal drive to the carrier, a primary drive roller mounted to the carrier to engage the roll of print media when the door in the cartridge is open, a second drive motor arranged to impart rotary drive to the primary drive roller, and a third drive motor which engages a drive roller of the print media delivery arrangement.

Abstract: A media cartridge is provided which is arranged to be removably mounted in juxtaposition to a printer and has a casing, a roll of print media rotatably housed in the casing, and a print media delivery arrangement housed in the casing and having a roller. The casing has a door which is arranged to be opened to enable the roll of print media to be contacted by a driven roller mounted to a pivotal carrier of the printer and the roller of the print media delivery arrangement to couple with a drive motor of the printer.

Abstract: A low paper sensor mechanism for a printer includes two paper supports. Each paper support includes a fixed roller rotatable about a fixed roller axis and a movable roller rotatable about a movable roller axis and pivotable about the fixed roller axis from a start position to an end position, the movable roller and fixed roller spaced a predetermined distance apart and capable of supporting a paper supply roll. A detection device includes a sensor having an emitting element and a detecting element disposed in a line of sight of the detecting element. The movable roller is translatable from the start position toward the end position as a diameter of the paper supply roll decreases to less than or equal to the predetermined distance thereby allowing the paper supply roll to fall between the fixed roller and the movable roller thereby restoring the line of sight.

Abstract: A printer with an elongated media output port is disclosed. The printer may be used for a digital tachograph of a motor vehicle. The printer includes at least one bearing surface which limits the media output in the transverse direction and along which the printing medium slides during output. The boundary conditions for the operation of a small-format printer in a digital tachograph of a motor vehicle makes it necessary that the media output port has to be sealed off against the ingress of harmful media. Therefore, the media output port includes an elongate sealing closure which is movable in the transverse direction and presses elastically against the bearing surface by a sealing feed guide. The printing medium is capable of being outputted between the bearing surface and the sealing closure in an output direction.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a tag label producing apparatus capable of facilitating label production and improving label production reliability. [Solving Means] A tag label producing apparatus 1 comprises a housing 3a comprising a label discharging exit 11, a driving roller 51 and a pressure roller 52 for controlling the feeding position near the label discharging exit 11 of a tag label tape 109 with print wherein an RFID circuit element To comprising an IC circuit part 151 configured to store information and a tag antenna 152 is provided, and an apparatus antenna LC provided in the housing 3a and configured to transmit/receive information by magnetic induction near the driving roller 51 and the pressure roller 52 with the IC circuit part 151 of the RFID circuit element To.

Abstract: The printer includes a printing unit 12 that performs printing on each of a label L1 and a second raw sheet M2 on the way of feeding out a first raw sheet M1, which is temporarily stuck with labels L1 on a release liner S, and a second raw sheet M2 having no adhesive layer; a peeling unit 13 that peels off the label L1 from the release liner S; first and second holding units 15, 16 that hold a label sheet L2 formed via a cutting unit 14; and a laminating unit 17 that laminates the label L1 and the label sheet L2 with each other so that the reverse surface of the printed surface of the label sheet L2 faces the adhesive layer side of the label L1 are provided. The label L1 laminated with the label sheet L2 is stuck onto an adherend W in a state that the adhesive layer is exposed in a closed loop state in an entire area of the periphery of the label sheet L2.

Abstract: A label printer enables drop-in loading of linerless label paper rolls and prevents print defects caused by variation in the label paper transportation and the readhesion of chaff to the label paper. A pair of roll guiding members 37 and 38 limit the position of the outside of the label paper roll 5 to a position separated a predetermined distance from the label paper entrance 11 by contacting the outside of the label paper roll 5 inside the roll paper compartment 7 of the label printer 31 at a position offset from the label paper entrance 11 toward the center of the roll paper compartment 7. The roll guiding members 37 and 38 are members with low friction resistance when in contact with the outside of the label paper roll 5, and thus reduce the friction that can cause inconsistent paper transportation and chaff from wear.

Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program for controlling the tension in roll-based print media. The apparatus comprises: an encoder arranged to detect an angular displacement of a roll of print media; a processing unit arranged to determine the radius of the roll of print media based on the detected angular displacement of the roll of print media; a motor arranged to apply torque to the roll of print media to create tension in the print media; and a controller arranged to control the torque applied by the motor based on the determined radius of the roll of print media.

Abstract: The tag-label producing device includes a print head for performing printing with respect to a print area of a cover film, a loop antenna for performing transmission/reception of information to/from an RFID circuit element, and a tape feed roller for imparting relative movement between the print head or loop antenna and a tag label tape with print. At this time, a control circuit determines the chronological sequence relation between the arrival of the RFID circuit element at a communication position where transmission/reception of information is performed with respect to the loop antenna, and the completion of the printing by the print head with respect to the print area. In accordance with the result of this determination, the operation modes of the tape feed roller, loop antenna, and print head are switch-controlled in a coordinated fashion.

Abstract: A printer (1) comprises a printing section (2) and paper roll holder (3) located beside or under the printing section. The paper roll holder (3) has a receiving portion (7) supporting a paper roll (10) from below and a drawer portion (8). A guide member (12) that acts on a paper sheet is located between the receiving portion (7) and the drawer portion (8). The paper sheet between the receiving portion (7) and the drawer portion (8) is inclined to a horizontal side by the guide member (12).

Abstract: A hand held personal digital assistant is provided having body and display sections interconnected via a hinge section, a pagewidth inkjet printhead disposed in the body section, and a supply of print media disposed in the hinge section. By disposing the print media supply in the hinge, a fully functional in-built printer is provided whilst making the personal digital assistance compact.

Abstract: A supply of image receiving medium for a label printer, said image receiving medium arranged to receive an image and comprising a magnetic layer, wherein said magnetic layer is anisotropic.

Abstract: Media rolls, support structures for the media rolls, and media processing systems are provided. A media roll may include an identification transponder having retrievable information regarding the media units and associated media unit transponders wound around a core of the media roll. A support structure may include a spindle for supporting a media roll and include an identification coupler for communicating with the identification transponder. In addition to the spindle having the identification coupler, the media processing systems may include a second coupler for encoding the media unit transponders and a printhead for printing indicia onto the media units. The information retrieved from the identification transponder may be used to adjust one or more encoding and/or printing settings of the systems.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a printer which includes a print unit, a supply unit for the supply of substrate, said supply unit containing a first holder for rotatably receiving a first web of a first substrate wound into a roll, and a second holder for rotatably receiving a second web of a second substrate wound into a roll, a first motor for driving the first roll and a second motor for driving the second roll, an actuating unit for actuating the motors and a switch for connecting the actuating unit to the first or second motor, and a control unit, by means of which the switch connects the actuating unit to the first motor when the printer is configured for printing a first substrate, and the switch connects the actuating unit to the second motor when the printer is configured for printing the second substrate.

Abstract: A CPU 81 displays a virtual tape 201 of a length obtained by subtracting a length (l1+l2) from an antenna 33 to a thermal head 9 from a data value of an “IC chip pitch length L” when it determines that a printing object tape 531 of type 1 is accommodated in a tape cassette 21. A “tape width” is displayed on the right side of the virtual tape 201. A tape length of the virtual tape 201 is displayed below it. A “tape type” is displayed below it. Then, the CPU 81 displays a print area 202 on the virtual tape 201 from a data value of the “print area” while a right side portion thereof serves as a non-print area. It displays the print data inputted into the print area 202 and waits for the return key 4 to be pressed.

Abstract: A roll-based printer and method of loading the same is presented. The method comprises: sliding a roll of print media onto a print media spindle so that the roll of print media is positioned closer to a first end of the print media spindle than a second end of the print media spindle; loading the spindle onto a supporting assembly so that the spindle is rotatably supported by the supporting assembly and the first end of the print media spindle is at the end of the printer which is opposite to an end of the printer having a media detecting unit for detecting the presence of print media being fed to the printer; feeding the print media to the printer from the loaded spindle; detecting the position of an edge of the print media fed to the printer; and adjusting a starting position of the print head based on the detected position of an edge of the print media.

Abstract: This disclosure discloses a label editing apparatus comprising a tape attribute information acquisition portion that acquires tape attribute information of a print-receiving tape or of a base tape to be bonded thereto; and a feed setting portion that sets the feeding behavior of the print-receiving tape, based on the tape attribute information, wherein, the label editing apparatus performs editing of a production of a label with print by using a label producing apparatus, the label producing apparatus including: the feeding device; the printing device that performs printing on the print-receiving tape; and a cutter that cuts the print-receiving tape.

Abstract: A tape printer includes a holder support member at one side end in a roll sheet holder storage part in a direction substantially perpendicular to a feeding direction. In the holder support member, a mounting piece which is substantially rectangular in section and formed protruding outward on a positioning holding member of a roll sheet holder is fitted. The tape printer further includes a flat portion formed substantially horizontally between a rear edge of an insertion opening through which a roll sheet is inserted into the tape printer. On the flat portion, a front portion of a guide member is placed. At a rear edge of the flat portion in the feeding direction, at plural positions corresponding to various kinds of the roll sheets having different widths, there are formed four second positioning grooves in which part of the guide member is fitted.

Abstract: An article for collecting dust and debris from edges of paper rolls comprising an annular body of material having a plurality of undulations on the surface of the body to provide one plurality of ridges resiliently disposed in one direction and another plurality of ridges resiliently disposed in an opposite direction.

Abstract: Provided is a wallpaper printer having a media supply cartridge. The cartridge includes a media case, a media roll assembly rotatably located within the media case, and a roller assembly configured to operatively eject blank wallpaper from the media roll assembly and out of the case for printing with the wallpaper printer.

Abstract: A printing system for producing printed media web, such as wallpaper, with a consumer selected print, such as a wallpaper pattern. The printing system comprising: at least one media cartridge containing the media web; a printhead extending at least the width of the media web; first drive means to drive the media web past the printhead; at least one processor to receive and process the selected print and to control printing of the selected print, by the printhead, on the media web to produce the printed media web; and, second drive means to drive the wallpaper onto a roller to be wound by a winding means.

Abstract: 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 edge of the roll between a pair of rollers and past an edge of the open case and closing the case. next the case is loaded into a self threading printer with the rollers located within the case and on either side of the media web. the printer includes a full width digital color printhead and the printhead prints a wallpaper pattern on at least part of the media web to produce wallpaper.

Abstract: A front cover structure is used in a label printer, including a back board forming a paper roll support device; a front board coupled to the back board and defining a first hole and including a first cross bar, a second cross bar and a third cross bar, of which the second and third cross bars are parallel to and positioned against the first cross bar; a pressing board defining two second holes in two side projections thereof and a third hole, and being coupled to the front board with a first connection bar extending through the first hole and the second holes; and a lock board defining a plurality of fourth holes in opposite edge portions and being coupled to the pressing board with a second connection bar extending through the third hole and the fourth holes.