| 发明名称 | System and method for printing a cancellation mark on a ticket | ||
| 摘要 | What is disclosed is a system and method for printing a cancellation mark on a ticket using inks having thermo-reactive properties. One embodiment of the present method for printing a cancellation mark onto a ticket involves the following. A ticket, which has a security mark printed thereon, is received into a slot of a housing of a device which contains therein an inkjet printhead. The received ticket portion comes into proximity with an inkjet printhead configured to print a cancellation mark on the ticket using the thermo-reactive ink. The cancellation mark is printed to at least partially overlap the security mark. In one embodiment, a user activates a switch which causes the inkjet printhead to print the cancellation mark on the ticket upon the ticket having been inserted into the slot. Various embodiments are disclosed. | ||
| 申请公布号 | US8967783(B2) | 申请公布日期 | 2015.03.03 |
| 申请号 | US201213716996 | 申请日期 | 2012.12.17 |
| 申请人 | Xerox Corporation | 发明人 | Wilsher Michael John;Olliffe Christopher D.;Stevenson Duncan Ian;Reid Brian |
| 分类号 | B41J2/01;B41M5/00;B41J2/21;G07F17/42 | 主分类号 | B41J2/01 |
| 代理机构 | Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco P.L. | 代理人 | Blair Philip E.;Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco P.L. |
| 主权项 | 1. A method for printing a cancellation mark onto a ticket, the method comprising: receiving, into an inkjet print device, at least a portion of a ticket which has a security mark previously printed thereon with ink having thermo-reactive properties; printing, using an inkjet printhead, a cancellation mark on said ticket, said cancellation mark at least partially overlapping said security mark previously printed thereon, said cancellation mark being printed on said ticket with ink having thermo-reactive properties; wherein said ink with thermo-reactive properties being visible when a temperature T of said ink is in a range of TL<T<TH, said ink becoming visually transparent when heated to a temperature of at least T≧TH, said ink thereafter remaining visually transparent after said temperature T returns back to within said range, said ink becoming visually perceptible again when cooled to a temperature of at least T≧TL, said ink remaining visually perceptible after said temperature T returns to within said range; and directing said ticket, with said cancellation mark overlapping said security mark, along a transport path to bring said ticket into proximity to at least one thermo-changing heating element which resides along said transport path to change a temperature of said ink to at least T≧TH, thereby making transparent both said cancellation mark and said security mark. | ||
| 地址 | Norwalk CT US | ||