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A printing system for printing characters in various fonts and formats onto webs of sheet stock of various sizes includes apparatus for cutting the web into various lengths to accommodate various formats as well as for providing different lengths of tags which are interposed between batches of tags

A printing system for printing characters in various fonts and formats onto webs of sheet stock of various sizes includes apparatus for cutting the web into various lengths to accommodate various formats as well as for providing different lengths of tags which are interposed between batches of tags to permit easy separation of the batches. A stacker is also provided which selectively stacks the tags in a shingle fashion or into piles. Circuitry is provided to detect jams in the system and to assure that the proper size web corresponding to the selected format is used. Also, the system is provided with circuitry for adjusting the line print position to compensate for positioning errors caused by mechanical tolerances in the printers.

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A method for controlling the operation of a tag printer which is adaptable to printing data according to a plurality of formats of the type that makes imprints onto a web of sheet stock having indices disposed thereon at predetermined intervals including the steps of storing data representative of t

A method for controlling the operation of a tag printer which is adaptable to printing data according to a plurality of formats of the type that makes imprints onto a web of sheet stock having indices disposed thereon at predetermined intervals including the steps of storing data representative of the data to be printed and the corresponding length of the tag on which the information is to be printed according to a predetermined format, sensing the indices as the web is fed through the printer and terminating the operation if the tag length defined by the indices does not substantially correspond to the tag length defined by the stored data.