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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2011
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2007
Kazuyuki Yokoyama, Matsumoto, JP;
Kazuyuki Yokoyama, Matsumoto, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A patient wristband tag production apparatus for printing and producing a tag precursor that includes a printing unit, a print medium web, an information acquisition unit, a printing control unit, and a cutter. The print medium web can have a perforation running along a length of the web and dividing the web into a tag printing area and an insertion tab area, the web being configured to produce tag precursors. The tag precursors produced from the web can have a printed tag part formed from the tag printing area on which patient identification information is printed such that the tag precursor is configured to be stored in a tag storage part of a patient wristband, and an insertion tab part formed from the insertion tab area that is detachably connected to the printed tag part and is configured to be used for inserting the printed tag part into the tag storage part.