EP0373954A2 - Druckbares Medium - Google Patents

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EP0373954A2
EP0373954A2 EP89313137A EP89313137A EP0373954A2 EP 0373954 A2 EP0373954 A2 EP 0373954A2 EP 89313137 A EP89313137 A EP 89313137A EP 89313137 A EP89313137 A EP 89313137A EP 0373954 A2 EP0373954 A2 EP 0373954A2
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Siegfried Esselte Meto International Mehl
Peter Esselte Meto International Franzen
Michael John Abrams
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
    • G09F3/00—Labels, tag tickets, or similar identification or indication means; Seals; Postage or like stamps
    • G09F3/02—Forms or constructions
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    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
    • G09F3/00—Labels, tag tickets, or similar identification or indication means; Seals; Postage or like stamps
    • G09F3/02—Forms or constructions
    • G09F2003/0201—Label sheets intended to be introduced in a printer, e.g. laser printer
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
    • G09F3/00—Labels, tag tickets, or similar identification or indication means; Seals; Postage or like stamps
    • G09F3/02—Forms or constructions
    • G09F2003/0202—Forms or constructions printed before use
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
    • G09F3/00—Labels, tag tickets, or similar identification or indication means; Seals; Postage or like stamps
    • G09F3/02—Forms or constructions
    • G09F2003/0208—Indicia
    • G09F2003/0211—Transfer or thermo-sensitive
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
    • G09F3/00—Labels, tag tickets, or similar identification or indication means; Seals; Postage or like stamps
    • G09F3/02—Forms or constructions
    • G09F2003/0214—Stock management

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  • This invention relates to a printable medium and to its use, particularly but not exclusively, in printing labels, for example bar code labels.
  • Bar codes are now widely used for ready identification and tracking of products, samples and documents. For example, they are finding increasing uses in medical, pharmaceutical and research centres as well as in retail areas. Bar codes are now widely used at goods-in and check-out locations associated, for example, with retail trading. They facilitate the use of fully automatic in-and-out systems and, in some instances, do away with the need for price labels on the products. Many supermarkets stock 25,000 to 30,000 items for sale, however, and do not have sufficient shelf space to allocate all of these items to a particular position; as a result, even if there is a bar code on such products, there is still a need for price marking. Nevertheless, the use of a bar code scanning system to identify the goods may reduce labour requirements significantly and thus produce considerable savings.
  • a retail outlet In order to apply price labels to items already carrying a bar code, and to add a bar code to those products which are not coded at source, it is common for a retail outlet to use one or more label printers. These may be hand-held, portable or fixed in position. Typically, three stationary printers may be used by up to ten people. Strips of labels will be printed and taken to the product and either applied by hand or with a dispenser. Some retailers consider that it is more economical for each operative to have his own hand-held bar code label printer.
  • a national bar code has been allocated to a given product, this will normally be used by the retailer if no manufacturer's bar code is present. For products where no such national bar code has been allocated, it is up to the retailer to decide on his own bar code number. Typically, this number might be based on the numbering system used by the retailer before the introduction of bar code scanning to his store. In practice, the person generating bar codes with a printer will have with him source material which indicates the nature of the bar code for each product where a label is required. In medical applications, bar codes are useful in patient identification, specimen collection and distribution, pharmaceuticals distribution, document tracking, and management applications such as accounting, time recording/allocating, supplies management, and tracking of personnel and documents.
  • Hand-held labelling machines typically comprise a housing which is supported by a handle. Such a machine may include a label supply roll within said housing; a printing unit; and a keyboard for inputting data.
  • a label supply roll within said housing
  • a printing unit for inputting data.
  • an operative will input the bar code number via the keyboard, and then activate a label feed mechanism and the printing unit to apply the requested bar code to one of the labels on the supply roll.
  • the label feed mechanism moves the supply roll so that the printed label is accessible for application to the appropriate goods item.
  • a medium for use in a printing device characterised in that the medium comprises a substrate which carries a controllably transferable printing medium, e.g. ink, and at least one detachable element capable of displaying indicia when contacted under appropriate conditions with said printing medium.
  • a controllably transferable printing medium e.g. ink
  • the substrate will be in the form of a roll of paper or of a synthetic polymer on one side (the obverse side) of which the detachable element or elements (e.g. a plurality of labels) are supported.
  • the transferable printing medium is disposed on the reverse side of the substrate, i.e. opposite the labels.
  • the transferable printing medium is contained within a layer of adhesive by means of which the labels are removably secured to the substrate.
  • the controllably transferable printing medium will be referred to hereinafter as ink; likewise, the detachable element or elements capable of displaying indicia will be referred to hereinafter as a plurality of labels.
  • a medium for use in a printing device characterised in that the medium comprises a substrate which carries on one surface a layer of ink and on the other surface a detachable element capable of displaying indicia when contacted under appropriate conditions with said ink.
  • a printer which comprises a housing; a printing unit; means for supplying to said printing unit a medium onto which indicia are to be printed; and means for inputting data to control the nature of the indicia printed at said printing unit, characterised in that said supply means is arranged so that two passes of said medium overlap at the print head whereby one surface of the incoming pass of the medium is brought into contact with the opposite surface of the outgoing pass of the medium.
  • a printer which includes a feed mechanism for supplying a medium which is to be printed to a print head, characterised in that the feed mechanism is arranged so that the path of said medium in the vicinity of the print head includes an overlapping portion.
  • a printer which includes a feed mechanism for supplying a medium comprising a substrate, a coloured thermosensitive adhesive and a plurality of elements onto which indicia are to be printed to a print head, characterised in that the printer includes a roller in the vicinity of said print head and downstream thereof, whereby labels are separated from the substrate.
  • the ink will be a thermosensitive ink, but the invention is not restricted to such inks.
  • the detachable element With a thermosensitive ink, the detachable element will be capable of carrying printed indicia produced by contact between the element and the thermosensitive ink layer in the presence of heat, typically from a thermal print head heated to a temperature appropriate for the functioning of said thermosensitive ink.
  • a printing medium in accordance with this invention may carry, on that surface opposite said thermosensitive ink layer, a plurality of identical detachable labels.
  • a medium in accordance with this invention takes the form of a label roll 2 which is supplied from a spool 1.
  • the medium comprises a substrate 3 carrying adhesive labels 4 on one surface thereof and carrying a layer 5 of a thermosensitive ink on the opposite side thereof.
  • the medium is fed from spool 1 to a first roller 6, which is arranged obliquely with respect to the direction of travel of incoming medium 2.
  • the medium then travels to a second roller 8, arranged at 90° to the original direction of travel of the medium 2.
  • the net effect of traversing the two rollers 6 and 8 is that the medium 2 crosses over its initial path in the vicinity of print head 9.
  • zone 11 of the medium 2 constitutes a first pass of the medium
  • zone 12 of the medium constitutes a second pass of the medium 2.
  • Both passes 11 and 12 travel between print head 9 (see Fig. 1).
  • the print head 9 serves to transfer ink from the underside 10 of pass 12 onto the labels 4 on the upper side of pass 11 of the medium 2.
  • labels are removed from the substrate 3 at roller 6, and pass over a further roller 7 to be dispensed from the printer.
  • Figure 3 The arrangement of Figure 3 is generally similar to that of Figure 2, except that rollers 6′ and 8′ are oriented so that the second pass 12 of medium 2 travels in a direction different from that of Figure 2.
  • a spool 21 carries a label roll 22 which comprises a substrate 23 carrying an adhesive layer 30 on which are supported a plurality of identical labels 24.
  • the adhesive 30 is a coloured, thermosensitive material.
  • the label roll passes under a thermal print head 29. Just beyond the print head 29 in the direction of travel of the label roll there is a roller 26 which serves to cause an abrupt change if direction of the substrate 23. Labels 24 continue in their original direction of travel, thus becoming separated from the backing material 23, as shown. Wherever the print head 29 is actuated, a portion 35 of the coloured thermosensitive adhesive layer 30 is transferred to the label 24′, as shown.
  • actuation of print head 29 serves to transfer a block (or point or line) of coloured material to the label 24′.
  • the labels 24 may be overcoated with a layer of a second adhesive (not shown), this second adhesive being advantageously activatable under predetermined conditions, e.g. on application of ultra­violet light to the label roll.
  • a source of UV radiation 39 may be disposed downstream of the print head 29.

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WO1995031800A1 (en) * 1994-05-13 1995-11-23 Media Solutions, Inc. Laminated thermal transfer printable labels

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US4370370A (en) * 1981-06-08 1983-01-25 Ricoh Company, Ltd. Thermosensitive recording adhesive label
GB2163562A (en) * 1984-08-20 1986-02-26 Ricoh Kk Adhesive thermosensitive recording sheet
GB2192288A (en) * 1986-06-16 1988-01-06 Ricoh Kk Thermosensitive recording materials
EP0314592A2 (de) * 1987-10-26 1989-05-03 Jean Claude Duport Mehrschichtiges Band für Etikettendruckgeräte und ein solches Band benutzendes Gerät

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US4370370A (en) * 1981-06-08 1983-01-25 Ricoh Company, Ltd. Thermosensitive recording adhesive label
GB2163562A (en) * 1984-08-20 1986-02-26 Ricoh Kk Adhesive thermosensitive recording sheet
GB2192288A (en) * 1986-06-16 1988-01-06 Ricoh Kk Thermosensitive recording materials
EP0314592A2 (de) * 1987-10-26 1989-05-03 Jean Claude Duport Mehrschichtiges Band für Etikettendruckgeräte und ein solches Band benutzendes Gerät

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
WO1995031800A1 (en) * 1994-05-13 1995-11-23 Media Solutions, Inc. Laminated thermal transfer printable labels
US5587214A (en) * 1994-05-13 1996-12-24 Media Solutions, Inc. Laminated thermal transfer printable labels
US5738748A (en) * 1994-05-13 1998-04-14 Media Solutions, Inc. Method of making laminated thermal transfer printable labels

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GB8829229D0 (en) 1989-01-25
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DE68926778D1 (de) 1996-08-08
EP0373954A3 (de) 1991-12-04
ATE140094T1 (de) 1996-07-15

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