Philip Morris Inc.

Sylvia L Scaife

Robert C Kucera, Jr

Stephen D Brown

Richard E Bowman, Jr

Patrick S McElhinney

A cigarette packing apparatus comprising means for repetitively progressing labels through a print location, a signal generator configured to generate a signal indicative of presence of the label as it passes adjacent the print location, a second signal generator configured to generate a signal indicative of a speed at the print location; a fluid jet printer head adjacent the print location and a controller configured to operate the printer head responsively to the first and second signal generators, with an additional arrangement within the packing apparatus defining a contact-free path portion sufficient for ink to dry at the indicia-bearing portion of the label as the label is progressed beyond the print location.

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Charlotte, NC, United States of America

Sylvia L Scaife