Abstract: There is provided a printing device that includes an ink applicator and a shaping fluid outlet adapted to dispense a shaping fluid onto curable ink applied by the applicator. The printing device may further include energy emitting source used to at least partially cure the applied ink. There is further provided a curable ink mixture, the mixture includes a colorant at a concentration higher than 4%. There is further provided, a method for printing that includes applying curable ink on a substrate and shaping the ink by dispensing a shaping fluid.

Abstract: A system and method for developing a software application for manipulating data associated with an asset are provided. The system includes at least one processing unit. The system further includes at least one memory store operatively connected to the processing unit. The system further includes an extensible N-tier software resident in and executable within the at least one processing unit, wherein N corresponds to a positive integer value. The system further includes an inventory of software components resident in the memory store wherein a plurality of tiers are generated from the inventory of a software components using the N-tier software, each tier being associated with at least one other tier, and each tier comprising a plurality of software components and performing a predetermined function relating to an asset.

Abstract: A printing ink for use within multiple ambient temperatures which comprises a mixture of two or more inks having different viscosities at a given temperature. Thus, one or more lower viscosity inks having, for example, a viscosity in the range of about 300 cps to about 900 cps is mixed with one or more higher viscosity inks having, for example, a viscosity range of about 1100 cps to about 1800 cps to provide a multi-viscosity ink mixture useful over a wide temperature range. A print ribbon which carries the multi-viscosity ink mixture and, the combination of an impact printer incorporating said print ribbon are provided. A method for printing with an ink mixture to compensate for varying ambient temperatures includes the steps of mixing together two or more inks each having a different viscosity at the same given temperature to form an ink mixture; and, printing with said ink mixture on a medium to be printed upon.

Abstract: A marking press device having a pair of type arms that face each other to interpose a workpiece to be marked therebetween, a type fixed on each of said type arms for making a mark thereof, a circular type assembling member around which a plurality of said type arms are attached radially, a device for rotatably supporting said type assembling member around a rotary shaft and for pressing a selected type from said type assembling member onto said workpiece, a driver for rotating said type assembling member, a ribbon guiding mechanism that guides an inked ribbon for coloring marked characters, a ribbon supplying spool for supplying said inked ribbon, a ribbon winding spool for winding said inked ribbon, a ribbon frame to which said ribbon guiding mechanism, said ribbon supplying spool and said ribbon winding spool are mounted, and ribbon frame turning device for rotatably supporting said ribbon frame and turning said ribbon frame to a horizontal position above said type arms when said inked ribbon is replaced.

Abstract: A method and system are provided for performing database queries with geographic inputs that are converted to a direct marketing area prior to performing the query. Direct marketing areas define geographic locations as discrete areas of interest that may be more useful than city limits or a specific geographic location (e.g., latitude/longitude). Direct marketing areas are more useful geographic designations for purposes of advertising and marketing. A geographic input, such as a city and state, or a latitude and longitude are converted to a direct marketing area. The direct marketing area is then substituted for the entered geographic parameter (e.g., city and state or latitude and longitude), and the requested database query is performed.

Abstract: A belt steering apparatus for controlling inclined movement of the belt in, for example, a printer. The belt steering apparatus includes a first frame supporting a cylindrical roller having a predetermined portion which contacts an endless rotating belt, a second frame hinged to the center of the first frame, and a sliding member capable of sliding linearly, installed at one side of the first frame, and having an upper surface supporting a rotary shaft formed at one end of the roller, inclined from the direction of linear movement by a predetermined angle. A rack gear is provided on one side of the sliding member, and a pinion gear is connected to a rotary shaft of a motor mounted to the first frame, contacting a predetermined portion of the rack gear to linearly move the sliding member. Thus, the roller is easily tilted to forcibly raise and lower one side of the roller, and the pressure transferred from the belt can be withstood reliably.

Abstract: An entity relationship diagram for a relational database is generated from introspection of the relational database to determine which entities should be included within a specific table to be displayed. Tables within the entity relationship diagram are displayed with icons hyperlinked to other portions or displays of the entity relationship diagram. A trigger icon links the displayed table to a display of the trigger information for the displayed table. A primary key icon indicates which column of the displayed table is utilized as the primary key for the displayed table, while a foreign key icon links the displayed table to a display of another table in the entity relationship diagram containing the foreign key. Dashed or dotted lines and dot or diamond terminators associated with the foreign key icon described the relationship between the displayed table and the linked table. A constraint icon links the displayed table to a display of the constraint information for an entity.

Abstract: A data encoder and method utilizes a node list for storing a list of nodes in the data array to be processed, a branch list for storing a list of tree branches in the data array to be processed and a set list for storing a list of data sets. The method begins by initially storing in the node list node identifiers representing a predefined set of nodes in the data array, corresponding to coefficients generated by a last iteration of a data decomposition procedure. Also, it initially stores in the branch list branch identifiers representing tree branches corresponding to a predefined subset of the nodes initially listed in the node list. Each such tree branch has an associated root node and a branch depth value indicating how many node layers intervene between the root node and the nodes of the tree branch closest to the root node. The set list is initially empty, and a parameter called the LayerLimit value is also initialized.

Abstract: A system designed to enable persons incapable of manipulating a writing implement to sign papers and/or documents comprising a holder for the document to be signed, a holder for a transfer sheet for holding the transfer sheet adjacent that portion of the document to be signed and an implement defining the signature to be applied to the document for pressing the transfer sheet into transferring engagement with the document.

Abstract: A printer/plotter system for producing a multiple color hard copy output in response to digital input data. The system includes one or more impact hammers, each capable of printing a single dot with the hammers being arranged to selectively print dots along a defined print line. The system further includes an ink ribbon having multiple zones of different colors carrying encoded identifying indicia. In response to input data defining a dot pattern and the color in which it is to be printed, the ribbon is searched to position the first identified ribbon color zone in front of the impact hammers. After the pattern for that color is printed, the ribbon is again searched and the next identified color zone is moved into print station, i.e. in front of the impact hammers, and the pattern associated therewith is printed. A paper control system is provided to move the paper to be printed upon in a forward direction as information is printed in each color.

Abstract: A printer/plotter system for producing a multiple color hard copy output in response to digital input data. The system includes one or more impact hammers, each capable of printing a single dot with the hammers being arranged to selectively print dots along a defined print line. The system further includes an ink ribbon having multiple zones of different colors carrying encoded identifying indicia. In response to input data defining a dot pattern and the color in which it is to be printed, the ribbon is searched to position the first identified ribbon color zone in front of the impact hammers. After the pattern for that color is printed, the ribbon is again searched and the next identified color zone is moved into the print station, i.e. in front of the impact hammers, and the pattern associated therewith is printed. A paper control system is provided to move the paper to be printed upon in a forward direction as information is printed in each color.

Abstract: There is disclosed a numbering machine designed so that code numbers as well as check digits each consisting of a single-place digit are printed by means of a mechanical mechanism. The check digits are printed by a check digit type wheel having an arrangement of circulating digits which are calculated in correspondance with code numbers in accordance with a modulus 10 or 11 check with predetermined weights. When there is a carry from one code number digit place to the next higher digit place, it is necessary to print the digit skipped a predetermined number of the digits in the circulating digit arrangement, and as a result a drive control mechanism is provided so that when a change from one code number to the next higher code number necessitates a skipping operation, the change is detected and the check digit type wheel is rotated idly through a predetermined angle.

Abstract: The invention contemplates a non-rotary printing machine which accommodates continuously moving web along a single path of movement, for recycled precision imprinting of specially characterized information; the printing involves cooperative use of a printing-head unit on one side of the web and a printing-hammer unit on the other side of the web, and these units are indexibly positionable to enable the machine to print the characterized information in a selected one of at least two different alignment orientations with respect to the direction of web movement.

Abstract: A high speed multicolor printing apparatus having an ink ribbon with colored stripes or bands of different colors to allow printing of a certain line with a different color from the other lines. The apparatus is provided with means to control the selected color for printing.

Abstract: A check printer and including a base having an upwardly facing check print surface thereon and a chassis disposed thereover, such chassis cooperating with the base to form a pathway leading from one side to the other of the check print surface. A plurality of printing wheels are mounted in side-by-side relationship from said chassis for disposition over the check print surface. An ink ribbon cartridge is mounted from the chassis and includes a flat frame overlying the print surface with ink ribbon rollers carried therefrom and disposed on opposite sides of such print surface. An actuating handle engages the chassis and is operable upon depression thereof to shift the chassis downwardly to engage the wheels with a check resting on the print surface to print the numbers selected on such individual wheels on such check.