Card printer and method of printing on cards

A technology for printing presses and cards, used in printing, printing devices, thin material handling, etc., can solve problems such as difficulty in measuring and setting

Active Publication Date: 2010-04-14
ZEBRA TECH CORP
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This is undesirable because it is difficult to measure and set up a gate to accurately feed various cards of different thicknesses without double feeding

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[0054] The best embodiment for carrying out the present invention is described in detail below. This description is not intended to be limiting, but merely to illustrate the general principles of the invention, the scope of which can be determined with reference to the appended claims. For example, the invention is described below in terms of processing "cards", printing, encoding, and laminating cards. It must be noted that the present invention is applicable to any system to which cards are fed from card stacks, regardless of what the system does with the cards after they have been received. For example, the invention may be used to feed cards to a device that further polishes said cards by, for example, forming, stamping, or drilling holes in the cards.

[0055] Furthermore, it must be understood that the term "card" as used herein should not be limiting. A card as used herein refers to any unit of media supplied from a stack to a system via a path. The card can be paper...

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A compact system adapted for card imaging, card laminating, or other card processing, comprises a card processor positioned on a horizontal card feed path and configured to process one or both faces of a rectangular card such as a plastic credit or debit card. A card feeder is arranged to feed cards one at a time onto the horizontal feed path upstream of the card processor, the feeder comprising acompartment for holding a stack of vertical cards each supported on a long edge and a card feed mechanism configured to successively draw a card from an end of the stack and translate it off the stack. A card re-director is configured to receive the card and to redirect it to an attitude in which it is parallel with the horizontal card feed path and positioned to be fed to the card processor alongthe horizontal feed path. The compartment is located above the horizontal card feed path, and the card feeder feeds cards substantially vertically downward into the card re-director. The card process or may comprise a card printer and a magnetic strip encoder. Also disclosed are methods of printing, encoding and feeding cards.

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technical field [0001] This invention relates generally to card printers for applying information in the form of images, text, etc. to one or both sides of a card, and more particularly to a card printer that is vertically and horizontally compact. The invention also relates to a method of printing on a card. Still further, the present invention relates to a continuous feeding of cards from a card stack, and more particularly to a card feeding apparatus and method for feeding cards of various thicknesses while inhibiting the feeding of more than one card at a time from a card stack. Background technique [0002] Cards of various types have become increasingly common for purposes such as security (eg, identification cards and badges), financial transactions (credit and debit cards), driver's licenses, and the like. These cards are primarily made of plastic, but can also include paper or cardboard. These cards can be printed or embossed with symbols, magnetic stripes, and / or...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(China)
IPC IPC(8): B41J13/12B65H3/06
CPCB65H15/00B65H2301/33212B65H2701/1914
Inventor C·J·布赖恩特P·S·布赖尔D·E·佩里A·彼得L·C·查瓦里亚
Owner ZEBRA TECH CORP
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