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Custom label printer

  • US 5,401,110 A
  • Filed: 07/15/1991
  • Issued: 03/28/1995
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/15/1991
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A portable label printer for printing custom sized labels on site from a continuous label paper tape roll, said printer comprising:

  • a) a microprocessor means for receiving and storing a library of label information including label formats, label contents, and label sizes;

    b) scanner means for scanning external machine readable indicia, said scanner means being operably connected to said microprocessor means for enabling said microprocessor means to identify selected label information in said stored library which selected label information comprises label format, label content, and label size, all of which are identified by said scanned external machine readable indicia for each label to be printed;

    c) printing means connected to said microprocessor means, said printing means being operable by said microprocessor means to print, upon command, labels defined by said selected label information;

    d) means for holding said roll of label paper tape;

    e) perforating means connected to said microprocessor means, and operable upon command from said microprocessor means to form rupturable tear lines across the label paper tape at preselected locations dictated by said microprocessor means; and

    f) drive means connected to said microprocessor means, and operable upon command from said microprocessor means to move the label paper tape through said printing means and through said perforating means, to produce a series of labels each being separated from the next by perforated tear lines, which labels may be of the same or different lengths, and which labels have separate selected label information printed thereon.

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