Abstract: In a printing press and attached onto the transfer cylinders, an anti-marking system that uniformly supports the transport and the release of the wet printed sheet from one station to the next. The anti-marking sheet consists of a two plus layer system, the outer layer being a textured surface and the inner layer being a microcellular material that is both compressible and resilient. The outer textured layer may be treated with either conductive/anti-static layers or an ink repellent layer or both. The two plus layer system is easily attached to both transfer cylinders and tracking/skeleton wheels using any combination of fixtures from Velcro™, magnetic, metallic, and pressure sensitive double sided tape to elastic loops.

Abstract: A method and a device for converting a mode of operation from straight printing to perfecting in a sheet-processing machine, includes a cam/follower control for operating a gripper system, in which cam followers are maintained in a position in which they are disengaged from control cams before a conversion of the mode of operation is performed. The method and the device convert a gripper system of a reversing drum between a straight or one-sided printing mode and a perfecting or recto-verso printing mode, by controlling pivoting and opening movements of grippers of the gripper system with a control cam. Initially, a cam follower is locked in a position in which it is disengaged from the control cam. Subsequently, a further cam follower is locked in a position in which it is disengaged from a further control cam. Then the gripper system is converted.

Abstract: 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 reads out one of setting tape width images from the setting tape width image storage device, and a character size image reading device that reads out one of character size images from the character size image storage device. The apparatus further includes a setting guide image generation device that generates a setting guide image by combining the one of the setting tape width images and the one of the character size images, and a setting display control device that displays the setting guide image on a setting screen.

Abstract: 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 bus operatively accessible via the aperture for receiving an ink cartridge. The unit further includes a chassis defining a chute for receiving print media therein, said chassis supporting a flat panel display, and a front bezel molding operatively fast with the rear cover molding to enclose the printer, chassis and display.

Abstract: Provided is an inkjet printer assembly having a cartridge with an integrated pagewidth printhead integrated circuit (IC), and a cradle configured to receive the cartridge such that the printhead IC is adjacent a media feed path. Also included is a driven mechanism configured to maintain the printhead and to feed print media through the media feed path, and a central processing unit (CPU) configured to control operation of the IC to determine a performance characteristic of the cartridge to control operation of the driven mechanism and printhead IC in response to the determined performance characteristic of the cartridge. The assembly also includes a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) subsystem configured to store print data and to arbitrate requests received from the CPU, and a print engine pipeline (PEP) subsystem configured to accept compressed pages from the DRAM subsystem and to render said pages to bi-level dots for printing by the IC.

Abstract: A guide apparatus for mounting and dismounting an inner part usable in an image forming device includes: a first and a second sliders formed at both sides of a built-in part respectively; a first and a second undercut preventing parts formed at a first and a second side walls of the frame facing the both sides of the inner part under the connecting member, respectively; and a first and a second guide rails integrally formed with the first and the second side walls adjacent to the first and the second undercut preventing parts, respectively, and housing and guiding the first and the second sliders. Accordingly, the first and the second guide rails are integrally formed with the first and the second side walls of the frame, respectively, so that manufacturing is simpler, manufacturing costs and inferiority are reduced, and the intensity is increased.

Abstract: A mounting apparatus for mounting a mobile information handling device comprising a frame assembly, a mount for mounting a mobile information handling device and a support for supporting a printing device. Frame assembly may include a base plate having a first surface configured to receive a printable media supply housing. Printable media supply housing may be a basket assembly. Support may be pivotally coupled to the frame assembly, allowing insertion and removal of printable media supply housing. Mounting apparatus may be further comprised of a mounting arm having at least one universal joint coupling the mount to the frame assembly. Mounting arm may allow three-dimensional rotational adjustment of the mount.

Abstract: 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 tray device.

Abstract: A printing device has a platen roller, a print head for printing on a sheet material, and a sheet cutting device for cutting the sheet material on which printing has been performed. The sheet cutting device has a stationary blade and a movable blade for cutting the sheet material in a pressing contact state with respect to the stationary blade. A release mechanism is disposed in the stationary blade frame and is movable to first and second positions to release the stationary and movable blades. In the first position of the release mechanism, the blades are in the pressing contact state, the platen roller is in contact with the print head, and ends of a platen roller shaft of the platen roller are disposed adjacent to one end of respective elongated holes of a stationary blade frame supporting the stationary blades.

Abstract: 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 ribbon cassette, such that the cassettes are receivable in a direction which is substantially perpendicular to the line of printing elements on the printhead when the printhead is in a printing position.

Abstract: A method for registering a rotary press for a printing process, in which “n” inking systems (Fn) each produce monochrome printed images and print one on top of the other thereby producing n-colored printed images, includes producing the images of a printed material with at least one sensor station, recording information on rotary movements of printing plate cylinders (Dn), and using the images and the information to produce correction signals which actuate the cylinders until a deviation of the images of the respective inking systems from a desired position on the material lies within a defined range of tolerance values. During the registering method, one printing plate cylinder at a time is in the printing position, the sensor station produces the printed images, and the correction signals are obtained based on the image produced by the respective cylinder and the information on the rotary movements of at least one cylinder.

Abstract: A sheet-fed offset printing press for printing multiple colors on both sides of sheets, preferably on sheets of paper, includes a first row of in-line printing units for printing a first side of the sheet, followed by a reversing device, followed by a second row of in-line printing units for printing the other side of the sheets, and followed by one or more varnishing units that are disposed in such a way, or include varnishing blanket cylinders that are disposed in such a way, that the front sides and the back sides of the passing sheets are varnished. A further reversing device is inserted between two varnishing units. A method of printing multiple colors on both sides of sheets is also provided.

Abstract: A sheet-fed offset printing press prints multiple colors on both sides of sheets, preferably on sheets of paper. A first row of in-line printing units print a first side of the sheet, before the sheets are turned in a reversing device, which is followed by a second row of in-line printing units for printing the other side of the sheets. The second row of in-line printing units is followed by one or more varnishing units that are arranged in such a way or include varnishing blanket cylinders that are arranged in such a way that the front sides and the back sides of the passing sheets are varnished.

Abstract: A mobile image forming apparatus forming an image on a media including a main body, a folding part, which is provided to be folded and unfolded via a predetermined rotating shaft, rotating between a closed configuration coupled to the main body and an opened configuration opened from the main body and having a folding transferring path for transferring the media, and an image forming part provided in at least one of the main body and the folding part.

Abstract: A printer has a carriage being movable between a first end and a second end of a reciprocating path; and a driving force transmitting path selecting mechanism provided at the second end of the reciprocating path. The selecting mechanism has: a common driving force outputting member; a plurality of force receiving members; a selecting member; and a position retainer for keeping the position of the selecting member. The selecting member connects the force outputting member to one of the plurality of force receiving members, and moves in association with the carriage when the carriage moves in a vicinity of the second end in a first direction extending from the first end to the second end. The position retainer keeps the position of the selecting member when the carriage moves in a second direction extending from the second end to the first end.

Abstract: In a print area provided on a peripheral surface of a gravure roll, a plurality of cells are defined by printing-direction walls and perpendicular walls, and each perpendicular wall has a plurality of cuts. In a center portion of the print area, most intersections of the printing-direction walls and the perpendicular walls are defined by T-shaped intersections where the perpendicular walls do not cross the printing-direction walls, but meet the printing-direction walls in a T-shaped arrangement. Preferably, round chamfers are provided at corners where a portion of each printing-direction wall and a portion of each perpendicular wall intersect, and at leading ends of the perpendicular walls pointing toward the cuts.

Abstract: A sheet feeding procedure supplies recording media from a medium enclosing portion to a medium conveying path. An overlap-feed detecting procedure monitors a thickness of recording media supplied to the medium conveying path, thereby detecting the overlap-feed media. Sheet returning procedures (A) and (B) return the overlap-feed media into the medium enclosing portion when the overlap-feed media are detected. A looseness forming procedure applies rotational forces of different rotation speeds to upper and lower surfaces of the overlap-feed media during the medium returning procedure, thereby forming a looseness in the overlap-feed media. A medium re-feeding procedure supplies again the returned recording media to the medium conveying path from the medium enclosing portion. In the medium feed control, the overlap-feed can be further certainly recovered.

Abstract: A bag dispenser feeds a bag assembly for supplying bags to a work station for manual removal from the bag assembly as needed. Each bag is printed with information such as packing date or packing location prior to reaching the work station.

Abstract: A printer is equipped with a supply roller for sending a piece of sheet from pieces of sheets stacked within a cassette; a pair of feed-in rollers for sending the piece of sheet supplied from the supply roller toward a printing region; and a sheet sensor provided between the supply roller and the pair of feed-in roller. The printer rotates the pair of feed-in rollers in a forward direction in a case that the sheet sensor detects presence of the sheet at a timing when it is found that printing data for a subsequent sheet is not stored within the printer. On the other hand, the printer rotates the supply roller in a reward direction when the sheet sensor detects non-presence of the sheet at the timing when it is found that the printing data for the subsequent sheet is not stored within the printer.

Abstract: A printing apparatus and method can control vibration generated resulting from the movement of a carriage to be small even when a desired printing pattern, etc., may change. The carriage is moved based on a plurality of drive conditions, each specifying a different moving distance of the carriage, and a drive condition by which vibration generated at that time becomes not larger than a predetermined magnitude is set as a drive condition of the carriage when printing an image on a printing medium.