Premark Feg L.l.c.

Hobart Corporation

Robert Merle Frow

William Howard McMahon

George J Berner

John Wendell Bowman

Long Su Nguyen

A printer media cassette includes a movable arm which defines a desired path for media stock to facilitate insertion and removal of the cassette from a printer. The cassette also includes a tensioner arm for providing slack in the media path within the cassette to account for slippage between a feed roller of the printer and the media. Latching mechanisms on the cassette cooperate with latching mechanisms on a printer to assure proper installation of the cassette within the printer.

Printer cassette with label stock tensioner arm and associated printer

A label printer for printing both human readable and machine readable indicia on the end label in a strip of perforated label stock includes a drum printer providing printing at a print station and label advancing rollers for advancing the label stock from a supply through the print station. Human readable indicia are printed on the end label during this advancement. Label tensioning rollers are provided on the opposite side of the print station from the label advancing rollers and engage the end label after a portion of the label has been transported past the print station. When the label tensioning rollers have engaged the end label, the machine readable indicia are printed on the label, as well as any additional human readable indica. The label tensioning rollers provide for tensioning of the label during printing of the machine readable indicia so as to enhance the resolution of the printed indicia. A label bursting arrangement is provided which includes label bursting rollers between the label tensioning rollers and a label output.

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Kettering, OH, United States of America

Robert Merle Frow