US Patent Issued to ELECTRONICS FOR IMAGING on March 11 for "Single pass inkjet printer for Z-fold (fanfold) materials" (American, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,533, issued on March 11, was assigned to ELECTRONICS FOR IMAGING INC. (Londonderry, N.H.).

"Single pass inkjet printer for Z-fold (fanfold) materials" was invented by Juan Escudero Gonzalez (Almazora, Spain) and Elizabeth Logue (Scituate, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention use inkjet printing, which is a non-contact printing system, to print continuously on Z-fold materials without image quality defect. The Z-fold material is created first and the material is then printed (decorated) afterward. Embodiments of the invention print on the flat sheet of Z-fold material prior to being cut, folded, glued, an...