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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 1995
Filed:
Sep. 08, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kesayoshi Iguchi, Fujisawa, JP;
Masahiro Yamaguchi, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
400621 ; 400611 ;
Abstract
A printer with an automatic cutter, at the time when a printer power source is turned on, judges from the ON/OFF states of two keys, i.e. a paper feed key and a condition setting key, whether a selected mode is an automatic cutter test mode, a printing test mode, or a normal printing mode, and then effects a necessary processing in accordance with such selected mode. According to this processing, the test of the automatic cutter can be conducted using only the printer, that is, without the use of any special device and parts.