G06K 15/02
Arrangements for producing a permanent visual presentation of the output data: using
Official title: using printers
G06K15/02 (Arrangements for producing a permanent visual presentation of the output data: using) appears on 11,145 US grants and 8,972 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G06K 15/18Conditioning data for presenting it to the physical printing elements4,615
- G06K 15/12By photographic printing2,436
- G06K 15/10By matrix printers2,092
- G06K 15/021Adaptations for printing on specific media766
- G06K 15/027Test patterns and calibration669
- G06K 15/16Means for paper feeding or form feeding559
- G06K 15/028By thermal printers254
- G06K 15/14By electrographic printing202
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