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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2023
Zebra Technologies Corporation, Lincolnshire, IL (US);
Morgan Hassan Malone, Swansea, MA (US);
Edward Anthony Hackett, Surbiton, GB;
Raymond E. Maynard, Westerly, RI (US);
Michael F. St. Germain, West Warwick, RI (US);
Michael C. Wondolowski, Carpinteria, CA (US);
Daniel V. Carroll, Port Barrington, IL (US);
Ozgur Ozserin, London, GB;
James Roger Morley-Smith, Oxfordshire, GB;
Hannah Marie Legg, London, GB;
Roger Edward Guinee, Arlington Heights, IL (US);
Ellen Thomas, London, GB;
Zebra Technologies Corporation, Lincolnshire, IL (US);
Abstract
A printer includes: a body defining a media enclosure configured to receive a media supply; an indicator assembly supported by an outer wall of the body, the indicator assembly including a plurality of substantially contiguous illumination surfaces illuminated by respective ones of a set of lights supported within the body; a controller supported by the body, the controller configured to: (i) obtain an operational status of the printer, (ii) retrieve, from a mapping repository, a set of notification control parameters corresponding to the operational status, and (iii) control the set of lights according to the notification control parameters.