US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on April 14 for "Printing apparatus and method for producing printed matter" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,153, issued on April 14, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus and method for producing printed matter" was invented by Tsuyoshi Himeno (Matsumoto, Japan), Toshihiro Hayashi (Matsumoto, Japan), Daisuke Shinohara (Shiojiri, Japan) and Ayako Kobayashi (Okaya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes: a printing unit configured to perform printing on a medium; a conveyance unit configured to convey the medium; a winding unit configured to wind up the medium after printing; and a prompting unit configured to prompt a user to fix a leading end of the medium to a winding core material in ...