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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:
Mar. 14, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 19, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kanji Suzuki, Shizuoka, JP;
Assignee:
Star Micronics Co., Ltd., Shizuoka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
400708 ; 400279 ; 400283 ;
Abstract
A printer comprising a carriage making reciprocating movement and a printing head mounted thereon, the movement of the carriage comprising an outward section from a home position to the other position, a homeward section from the other position to the home position, and two reverse sections to change the direction of the movement, a printing being made on a printing paper by defining the outward and homeward sections as a printing area, in which, when printing includes a mark printing to print a mark on an edge of the printing paper, the mark printing is carried out by using one of the reverse sections.