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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 29, 1999
Hans Mathea, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, DE;
Abstract
In an apparatus for imprinting an unmarked endless foil with images which are to be arranged within sections of the foil of a predetermined length L including a printing device, a transport device with a foil section indicator provides a signal to a control unit to determine section limits and a buffer arrangement including a first foil movement sensor sensing the movement of the foil from the printer and a second foil movement sensor sensing the foil movement into the transport device is arranged between the printing device and the transport device and the control device to which the first and second foil movement sensors are connected compares the signals and supplies a printing initiation signal when the length of the endless foil between a section limit provided by the foil section indicator and the printing device is a predetermined multiple of the length of the section L.