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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 1977
Filed:
Sep. 23, 1974
Robert W Swett, Smoke Rise, NJ (US);
Amnon Goldstein, Manhasset, NY (US);
Edward C Marshall, Upper Montclair, NJ (US);
Paul E Stanford, Clifton, NJ (US);
Litton Business Systems, Inc., Belleville, NJ (US);
Abstract
Hot printing of hard copy i.e., human readable, characters to meet the strict, high quality dimensional and other standards required for automatic optical or other means of reading such characters. The printing is effected by a heat responsive ink means. In the present embodiment, the ink means is heated by the printing members. Documents, especially tags or labels, marked with such hot printed automatically readable characters. The documents may also contain punched encoded information; and may further have printed thereon conventional, human but not automatically readable characters.