Ribbon printer
OwnerCraig Saunders, Gary Robert Stephaninventors
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Abstract
A ribbon printer assembly and method which allows for margin-less printing is disclosed. The ribbon printer assembly includes a printer media having a first and second side, first side comprises a printable portion and the second side includes an adhesive. The ribbon printer also includes a backing, wider than the printer media that is temporarily affixed to the adhesive on the printer media. The printer assembly may also include a printer engine which is configured to print along the entire width of the printer media and a spooling mechanism which is configured to secure the backing that supplies the printer engine with the backing and printer media.
Claims24
A consumer directed ribbon printer assembly comprising:
- a printer media having printable portion and an affixed portion, where said affixed portion is affixed to a carrier;
- a backing temporarily fixed to said affixed portion of said printer media;
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- a print engine configured to print across substantially the entire width of the printer media.
A consumer directed ribbon printer assembly product comprising:
- a printer media having a first and second side, said first side comprising a printable portion and said second side including a bonding agent;
- a backing at least as wide as said printer media, said backing being adapted to temporarily affix to said bonding agent on said printer media;
- a printer engine configured to print substantially along the entire width of said printer media;
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- a supply mechanism configured to secure said backing and printer media and equip said printer engine with said backing and printer media.
The printing substrate for printing a substantially continuous design on ribbon comprising:
- a ribbon having a first side and a second side, said first side being a printing face and said second side being an adhesive face;
- a backing with a width wider than said ribbon;
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- a bonding agent joining said second side of said ribbon and said backing.
The method of margin-less printing on a printable ribbon comprising:
- supplying a print engine with printable substrate, said printable substrate comprising a ribbon, a backing and a adhesive binding said ribbon and said backing, where the lateral edges of said backing are spaced further apart than the lateral edges of said ribbon;
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- printing on said substrate via said print engine where a design is printed substantially overlapping the lateral edges of said ribbon allowing for ink to be printed on said backing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.