ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,009, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).
"Printing apparatus and printing method" was invented by Shigeru Yoshigai (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes: a holder configured to hold a medium; a conveyor configured to convey the holder; a printing device configured to print on the medium conveyed by the conveyor in response to a reception of a print instruction; and circuitry configure to: maintain the printing device in a busy state; receive the print instruction in the busy state; control the conveyor to start conveying the holder to a print start position in respons...