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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2001
Iain Ansell, Newmarket Suffolk, GB;
Steven Roland Brace, Cambridgeshire, GB;
Francotyp-Postalia AG & Co., Birkenwerder, DE;
Abstract
A printing apparatus, particularly, a franking machine, with a movable printing-head guide includes a base, a guide connected to the base, a printing head, and an offsetting device. The guide moves the head, during printing, between first and second longitudinal positions in a given direction with respect to the base to effect a relative movement between the head and a print medium. The offsetting device prints images offset to one another transverse to the given direction and overlapping one another at most in an edge region of the images. The offsetting device is connected to the head and offsets the head relative to the base from a first transverse position into at least one second transverse position spaced from the first transverse position in a direction transverse to the given direction. The offsetting device is connected to the guide. A corresponding printing method, particularly, a franking impression is also provided.