Apparatus, method, and computer program product for pad transfer

US6971806B2 · kind B2 · utility

Inventors

• Philip G. Wessells · Mill Valley, US
• Michael Simonian · San Francisco, US
• James R. Yurchenco · Palo Alto, US
• Larry Cheng · Palo Alto, US
• Jesse Arnold Fourt · Menlo Park, US
• Chris Luomanen · San Francisco, US
• Shilajeet Banerjee · Belmont, US
• Sven Newman · Menlo Park, US
• Opher Yom-Tov · San Francisco, US
• Jon LeFors · San Francisco, US
• Hans-Christoph Haenlein · San Jose, US
• Michael E. Woods · Tiburon, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 3, 2003
• Grant date: Dec 6, 2005
• Expiry date: Dec 3, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06K2215/0097
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The present invention includes apparatus and method for image transfer onto one of a plurality of a pad medium pages while the pages are aggregated together. A preferred embodiment for a printer includes a housing; a print engine, within the housing, for transferring an image to a transfer medium when the transfer medium is located at a print position; and a transfer medium registration system, coupled to the print engine, for positioning a pad including a plurality of transfer media releasably secured to one another, wherein the print registration system locates one of the transfer media at the print position. The method including positioning a pad at a print position of a print transfer engine, the pad including a plurality of transfer media releasably secured to one another; and transferring an image to one of the transfer media positioned at the print position.