Kabushiki Kaisha Ishida Koki Seisakusho

Ishida Scales Mfg. Co., Ltd.

Takashi Kitaoka

Michiyasu Hikita

Hatsuo Kawaguchi

A weighing system for computing the prices of articles purchased by customers includes cards (4) containing codes for discriminating the customers. The card (4) is inserted in a card reader (16) attached to an electronic scale (1), and the prices of articles weighed by the electronic scale (1) are totaled for each of the codes of the cards (4).

Weighing system

A printer operatively associated with an electronic weigher includes an input unit having numeric keys or format keys, a memory device storing a plurality of programs for controlling positions at which data are to be printed on a label as well as the size of the printed data, each program corresponding to a different label format, reading means for reading out of the memory device a program corresponding to a format designated by operating the keys of the input unit, and a printing mechanism for printing predetermined data on a label at a predetermined position of the label on the basis of the program read out of the memory device. A journal printer for printing out data from a plurality of electronic weighers having different printing formats includes a memory device storing a plurality of different printing formats, weigher discrimination means for discriminating from which of the plurality of electronic weighers data is received, mode discrimination means for discriminating the mode of the data, reading means for reading a printing format out of the memory device in accordance with the results of the discrimination operations performed by these discrimination means, and for delivering the printing format to the printing means.

Label printer with variable format

A printer having a circuit for controlling a heating head is arranged so that the heating head is divided into first and second heating element groups. When a printer control unit provides one line of print data, a first portion of the data is printed by the first heating element group during the first half of a printing cycle by supplying power solely to the first heating element group, and a second portion of the data is printed during the second half of the printing cycle by supplying power solely to the second heating element group.

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Ohtsu, Japan

Takashi Kitaoka