Printing system for a vending machine
AssigneeBeaver Machine Corporation
InventorsMark Rendell, Detlef Lange, Robert Schwarzli
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Abstract
A printing system provides a printer for printing indicia on a container within a vending machine. The printing system may print indicia based on information relevant to a purchase transaction. The vending machine may transmit to a remote server data relating to a purchase transaction entered into the vending machine, the remote server retrieving data relevant to the purchase transaction and/or to the purchaser and transmitting to the vending machine the data relevant to the purchase transaction, such that the printing apparatus prints indicia on the container based on the received data relevant to the purchase transaction.
Claims21
1-20. (canceled)
A printing system for a vending machine comprising:
- a transceiver associated with the vending machine,
- a remote server, wherein the remote server is operative to transmit remote server data to the transceiver for printing onto a container,
- wherein the remote server data comprises information relating to at least one product stored in the vending machine which product is selectively dispensable from the vending machine in the container,
- a data store local to the vending machine, operative to receive and store the remote server data, and
- a printer contained in the vending machine, wherein the printer is operative to print onto the container in the vending machine, prior to dispense of the container, information or other indicia based at least in part on the remote server data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.