Ncr Corporation

Iconex LLC

Jeffery S Denton

Mark E Keeton

Timothy W Rawlings

Richard D Puckett

Michael J Vandemark

Joseph D Roth

Yaoping A Tan

Paul C Blank

David M Dashiell

Matthew A McLaughlin

Thomas J Obringer

Michael W Olmstead

A printer with adhesive capabilities is presented. A printer includes one or more printing elements to image one or two sides of print media. The printer also includes an adhesive element to apply or activate adhesive material on at least one of the two sides of the print media.

Printer with adhesive capabilities

Methods of, and apparatus for, two-sided thermal printing comprising direct and/or thermal transfer print means are provided. In one embodiment, a combined direct thermal and thermal transfer printer and related media are disclosed wherein direct thermal printing is provided for on a first media side, and thermal transfer printing is provided on a second media side. In other embodiments, various two-sided thermal transfer printers and media are disclosed wherein thermal transfer printing is provided for on first and second media sides through use of, inter alia, a one- and/or a two-sided thermal transfer ribbon.

Two-side thermal printer

Two-sided thermal media comprising thermal transfer receptive and/or direct thermal thermally sensitive coatings on one or both of a first and a second side thereof are provided. In one embodiment, two-sided thermal media comprising a substrate having a first side and a second side, opposite the first side, and a first and a second thermal transfer receptive coating supported on the respective first and second substrate sides is provided. In another embodiment, two-sided thermal media comprising a substrate having a thermal transfer receptive coating on a first side thereof, and a direct thermal thermally sensitive coating on a second side thereof, is provided. In some embodiments, a direct thermal thermally sensitive coating provided on one or both sides of two-sided thermal media is adapted to image at a temperature different than a temperature at which thermal transfer printing has or can occur.

Two-sided thermal media

A label, method of printing and method of manufacture that includes a label comprising a transparent protective layer, a thermosensitive image-forming adhesive layer and a release liner. The transparent protective layer is of a thickness and weight, which permits sufficient heat to be conducted through it to the thermosensitive image-forming adhesive layer to cause thermally active dye in the thermosensitive image-forming adhesive layer to change color in the area where the heat is conducted.

Printable adhesive label

Thermal transfer ribbons which employ a reflective sensor marker of a small size for detecting the end of the ribbon and also thermal transfer ribbons which employ a reflective sensor marker and a transparent sensor marker for detecting the end of the ribbon.

Thermal transfer ribbon with end of ribbon markers

A thermal transfer medium is provided which is sufficiently opaque to be sensed by optical sensing means, yet forms images which can be transparent or semi-transparent (or opaque). The thermal transfer medium comprises a transparent substrate and multi-layer structure of a thin first coat and a thick second coating. The coatings are formulated such that only the second coating transfers to a receiving substrate upon exposure to a print head of a thermal printer leaving the first coat positioned on the transparent substrate. Separation of the two coatings allows the transparency/opacity of the image to be independent of the transparency/opacity of the first coats and the thermal transfer medium.

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Springboro, OH, United States of America

Jeffery S Denton