Abstract: A time card may have first and second card identifying sections disposed on opposite faces of the time card. The first card identifying section stores a most significant value of an identification of the time card, and the second card identifying section stores a least significant value of the card's identification. When combined to form a single value, the most and least significant values provide the time card identification. Also, a printing position indicator on the card identifies an initial printing position for the first and second card identifying sections to a time card recorder.

Abstract: The present invention provides a time recorder with a card feed rate adjustment function making it possible to print data for arrival and departure times to and from a job side at a correct position within a print column by adjusting a feed rate for a time card according to extension or shrinkage of the time card or characteristics of the time card such as a printing state within the print column. An adjustment value is computed by reading a start point and an end point printed on a time card TA or TB inserted into the time recorder with the mark sensors 10, 11 and counting a feed rate for the time card TA or TB from the start point to the end point with the encoder sensor 12, and a feed rate for the car is adjusted according to the computed adjustment value.

Abstract: An ID of the time card TK is divided to a plurality of ID marks in the form of at least two ID marks VN and VN′. Eeach of the divided IDs is provided to a front face T1 and a rear face T2. The divided ID marks VN and VN′ are read by mark sensors 12 and 13 of the time recorder TK. The read ID codes are combined as one ID code by reading of the sensors 12 and 13 and a working infomation such as attendace and leaving informations corresponding to the combined ID code is stored in a memory 21 and are printed to a predetermined printing column R of the time card TK. Accodingly,it is possible to provide a time card enabling to draw up a large numbers of ID codes and a time recorder system which makes the processing speed to fast and enables to fabricate a smoll sized time recorder, by constituting the time recorder enabling the reading of an ID and the printing of the ID during movement of the time card toward a inserting direction.

Abstract: The present invention provides a time recorder with a card feed rate adjustment function making it possible to print data for arrival and departure times to and from a job side at a correct position within a print column by adjusting a feed rate for a time card according to extension or shrinkage of the time card or characteristics of the time card such as a printing state within the print column. An adjustment value is computed by reading a start point and an end point printed on a time card TA or TB inserted into the time recorder with the mark sensors 10, 11 and counting a feed rate for the time card TA or TB from the start point to the end point with the encoder sensor 12, and a feed rate for the car is adjusted according to the computed adjustment value.