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US 2004/0056408 A1Published application
Sheet fed continuous motion printing system
AssigneeInternational Paper Company
InventorsThomas Alan Donaldson, Doyle Wayne Marlow
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Abstract
Method of printing individual header cards with a limited amount of information, such as a barcode, employing continuous movement of each of the header cards through a gap defined between a backup roll and a thermal printing head, each header card partially wrapping the backup roll only in the immediate vicinity of the printer head.
Claims12
A method of producing header cards for use in the display of merchandise in a retail outlet comprising the steps of
- die cutting a plurality of header cards from a blank having at least one surface thereof suitable for printing thereon,
- while moving each of said header cards continuously forward through a gap defined between a backup roll and a thermal printer head of a printer, each of said header cards wrapping said backup roll in said gap only to the extent required to effect thermal printing of a limited amount of information thereon,
- as each of said header cards is moved through said gap, thermally printing onto each of said cards the same message, said message being representative of at least the retailer and the product associated with said header card,
- associating said header card with a product being offered for retail sale and whose identification has been printed onto said header card.
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A system for the thermal printing of a limited amount of information onto a header card comprising
- a printer including a thermal printing head,
- a backup roll disposed adjacent said printing head and defining with said printing head a gap therebetween,
- a first idler roll disposed ahead of said backup roll,
- a second idler roll disposed downstream of said backup roll,
- said first and second idler rolls being spaced apart from and relative to said backup roll by respective distances which provide for wrapping of a header card about the outer circumference of said backup roll by a distance of about two and about two and one-half inches of the circumference of said backup roll and including said gap,
- continuously conveying said header card forwardly through said gap,
- thermally printing a limited amount of information on said header card as it is fed through said gap.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.