Printing apparatus

US9102140B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Francotyp-Postalia GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Stefan Beckmann · Mannheim, DE
• Wolfgang Muhl · Hohen Neuendorf, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 7, 2014
• Grant date: Aug 11, 2015
• Expiry date: Nov 7, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07B2017/0062
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A printing apparatus has an ink printing device onto which a flat item being transported om the x-direction for printing thereon is pressed by a contact pressure device, wherein the base of the contact pressure device has a contact pressure body floor plate biased by a spring force. A notch at the edge of the contact pressure body floor plate extends further in the contact pressure body in the z-direction, up to the ink printing device. An additional contact pressure device for strip-shaped printing substrates has a contact pressure element designed so as to be movable separate from the contact pressure body, and biased with a spring force of an additional spring or resiliently elastic element. The contact pressure element is arranged so as to be movable in the notch. A sensor for print triggering is arranged at a front wall of a lower housing shell of the printing apparatus and has a sensor region that is adjacent to the separate contact pressure element in the insertion direction y of a box-shaped module.