Appeal No. 2000-0376
Application 08/753,236
in Dietrich. Dietrich discloses that the machine parameters are
assembled into the final imprint or printing pattern, which can
be considered indicia, so the recorded information is in the
indicia or in the vicinity of the indicia. Dietrich also
discloses that the additional identification characteristics are
imprinted in the open, which suggests that they are printed in
the vicinity of, but separated from, the postal-related indicia.
Thus, the limitation of recording information "in the indicia or
in the vicinity of the indicia" is not a difference.
Bruns relates to a method of automatically identifying a
print wheel to permit automatic control of printing parameters.
Bruns discloses that printers may use a large number of print
wheels and the print wheels may be arranged within cartridges
which can interchangeably inserted into a printer. Bruns states
the problem as follows (col. 1, lines 39-48):
Although both the print wheels and their associated
cartridges have the same structure, printing conditions
differ depending on the type or consistency of a print
wheel, so that, when print wheels are to be exchanged,
operating conditions on the side of the printer itself must
be changed to correspond to the exchange of print wheels.
For example, the imprint strength, pitch, ribbon advance
and/or other parameters may need adjustment when changing
print wheels to obtain satisfactory printing.
One piece of identifying information (e.g., data identifying the
particular print wheel) is recorded on the print wheel by the
angle " between a slot 17 indicating a zero position of the print
wheel 1 and a stopping element (e.g., detent recess 32)
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