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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 1991
Filed:
Apr. 26, 1990
Mannesmann A.G., Dusseldorf, DE;
Abstract
A printer for a plurality of different printing objects serving as a multifunctional printer is subject to problems of economic production. A printer system which allows to process all internationally required forms and savings booklets, records, checks, protocols, driver licenses for motor vehicles, passports, identification cards, motor vehicle registration papers, picture-text BTX texts, and teletext texts, can be furnished, depending on the selected functions, by forming a base model (1), which includes a print apparatus (2), a print-object transport device (3), an operating field (4), an electronic control device (5), and a power supply (6), where the print apparatus (2), the power supply (6), and the electronic control device (5) form in each case modular building blocks (7), which can be easily mounted and easily demounted by receiving and bolting means (8, 10 or, respectively, 9a, 10a) disposed at a base frame (8) and where further receiving and bolting means (9, 10 or, respectively, 9b, 10b) are provided at the base frame ( 8) for an optical character-recognition device (15) and/or for a magnetic-strip processing (20) and/or for an optical line searcher (21) and/or for an optical marking searching (22) and/or for a journal-printer modular building block (23, 7).