Avery Dennison Retail Information Services, LLC

Avery Dennison Corporation

Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.

Liebel-flarsheim Company LLC

Paxar Americas, Inc.

Mitchell G Stern

Jeanne F Duckett

John D Mistyurik

Donald J Ward

Timothy L Brown

Jan M Watson

Jesus Romo, Jr

Jason R Wheeler

James E Knipfer

Clyde N Tharp

James A Makley

Gary S Wagner

Charles S Neer

David W Riley

Donald A Morrison

Lance D Neuhard

James H Goethel

Jeffrey A Raymond

Peter F Staats

Johannes Lenkl

Dane J Battiato

Robert G Bergen

Pamela K Jacobs

James E Helmbold

Robert B Schulte

John R Monteith

John N Minnich

Steve P Verdino

William B Durst

David N Long

Roberto Mauro

João Pedro Gomes Da Costa

A stand-alone apparatus for cutting a web of media or tag stock into individual units for use downstream of a printer. The apparatus may cut vinyl, plastic, or RFID stock material in both back and forth directions. The apparatus comprises a housing, a carriage assembly and a movable cutter assembly. The cutter assembly is easily interchangeable and comprises a cutting element such as a wheel blade, and a pressure adjusting element for adjusting the amount of pressure applied by the cutting element to the stock material. Alternatively, the cutter assembly may be manufactured with a predetermined pressure load, but still permit an operator to adjust the depth of cut. The apparatus may be powered by and or in hardline or wireless communication with a printer, or may further comprise a computer microprocessor, memory and user interface to function wholly independent from a printer.

Stand-alone cutting apparatus

A method of reducing label waste that employs a stand-alone or printer attached apparatus for cleanly and efficiently cutting a web of media or tag stock into individual units. The apparatus used by the method may cut vinyl, plastic, or RFID stock material in both back and forth directions without sacrificing cut quality, and preferably comprises a housing, a carriage assembly and a movable cutter assembly. The cutter assembly comprises a cutting element such as a wheel blade, and a pressure adjusting element for adjusting the amount of pressure applied by the cutting element to the stock material. Alternatively, the cutter assembly may be manufactured with a predetermined pressure load, but still permit an operator to adjust the depth of cut. The method involves using the cutting apparatus to make a series of cuts as the label material is incrementally advanced through the cutting apparatus.

Method for reducing label waste using a cutting apparatus

A combination printer and cutting device for printing upon and cutting a web of media or tag stock into individual units. The device may cut vinyl, plastic, or RFID stock material as it moves through the printer in both back and forth directions. The device comprises a printer and a cutting apparatus that is further comprised of a carriage assembly and a movable cutter assembly. The cutter assembly is easily interchangeable and comprises a cutting element such as a wheel blade, and a pressure adjusting element for adjusting the amount of pressure applied by the cutting element to the stock material. Alternatively, the cutter assembly may be manufactured with a predetermined pressure load, but still permit an operator to adjust the depth of cut. The cutting apparatus is adaptable for use with both new and existing printers.

Combination printer and cutting apparatus

The present invention provides for an improved printer provides a user with a simple, intuitive user-friendly touchscreen interface, is easy to assemble, and has a low cost to repair. The printer comprises a platen roller that can be changed without tools via the use of a bayonet connector, and an easy change print head that mechanically guides the print head into the carrier via mechanical guiding pins. Further, the printer comprises a universal supply holder to accommodate different sizes of inner diameter cores for tag and laminated supplies. The printer also discloses a ribbon spindle that accommodates both a cardboard core and a plastic core on the same printer device. Additionally, the printer discloses a media low sensor for providing a low supply indicator, and a gap sensor that comprises an LED array and a resistor array for gap sensing across the supply web.

Thermal printer and components

A hand-held labeler/printer for printing and applying labels is described. The labeler/printer has a keyboard, a display, a scanner, and a battery-containing handle. The labeler/printer is user-friendly and compact. The labeler/printer can be easily loaded with label and webs of different widths. The labeler/printer has a discharge area along its front for the carrier web. Also described are various charging cradles and controllers for the labeler/printers.

Hand-held portable printer

There is disclosed method and apparatus for encoding labels with information relating to temperature, life expectancy and/or discard dates and times of products such as perishable items. A hand-held portable printer mounts a thermometer which can sense the temperature of an item and the printer can print a label bearing the sensed temperature and/or other related data.

Method and apparatus for encoding labels

There is disclosed a portable printer and a method of selectively printing on any one of a plurality of label rolls housed in the printer, or on a wide roll housed in the printer.

Printer and method of printing with a plurality of selectable registration sensors

A medical fluid injector includes: an air detection system for detecting air in the neck of the syringe; a hand-operated control lever for controlling movement of the injector ram; magnetic conductors for delivering magnetic fields from a power head face plate to an internal circuit board to permit detection of different face plates; a tilt sensor detecting the tilt angle of the power head to control the speed of motion brought about by the hand-operated control lever and to control an invertible display; and a monitor microcontroller for monitoring the behavior of the central processing unit to detect and react to error conditions.

Medical fluid injector having watchdog circuit

Medical fluid injector

A dynamic strobe compensation control for a battery powered barcode printer varies the strobe time for the thermal printhead of the printer during the printing of a line of data to compensate for internal resistance losses in the thermal printhead. The control varies the strobe time based upon the measured voltage of the battery powering the printhead when the battery is not loaded by the thermal printhead and when the battery is load by the thermal printhead. The print quality is thus maintained across the width of a line of print data as well as over multiple lines of print data.

Dynamic strobe compensation control for a barcode printer

A universal controller interface for use in a number of different barcode printers is disposed between the printer's microprocessor and a number of the printer's input and output devices including the printhead. The controller includes a microprocessor interface that allows the controller to be used with various types of printer microprocessors. The controller also includes a printhead control circuit that allows the controller to be used with various types of printheads such as an intelligent thermal printhead or a non-intelligent thermal printhead. The controller also includes a programmable serial input/output port and a programmable baud rate generator so as to further increase its flexibility and use with various types of barcode printer input and output devices. A memory protection circuit of the controller allows various portions of the printer's random access memory to be protected if desired.

Universal controller interface for barcode printers

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Centerville, OH, United States of America

Mitchell G Stern