Method and apparatus for printing onto cassettes or specimen slides for histological preparations

US6715870B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Leica Microsystems Nussloch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Uwe Kiene · Eppelheim, DE
• Manfred Biehl · Norderstedt, DE
• Andreas Laudat · Meckesheim, DE
• Holger Metzner · Schallstadt, DE
• Rolf Metzner · Dossenheim, DE
• Roland Walter · Tiefenbronn, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 26, 2002
• Grant date: Apr 6, 2004
• Expiry date: May 30, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N2035/00861
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method and an apparatus for printing onto plastic cassettes for histological preparations and/or onto glass specimen slides for microscopic thin sections are described, in which a computing device (1) is provided to control the printing device (2), and the printing device (2) comprises an inkjet printer for printing onto the cassettes and/or specimen slides. The ink is pre-dried by way of a hot-air drier (3) and completely dried by way of a flash device (4).