Patent Issued for Printer for printing on histology-laboratory consumable articles (USPTO 11755860).

The printer as claimed in claim 11, wherein the printer comprises a transport apparatus (3) which transports the histology-laboratory consumable articles (16). The printer as claimed in claim 3, wherein the control apparatus (8) compares the image-pattern image signals received from the optical reading apparatus (13) with the image signals of the reference image pattern by image analysis and/or pattern recognition. The printer as claimed in claim 16, wherein the transport apparatus (3) transports the histology-laboratory consumable articles (16) printed on by the printing device (4) further, in particular to a removal device (7). The printer as claimed in claim 1, wherein the control apparatus (8) determines where a printing field is located on the histology-laboratory consumable article (16) on the basis of the image-pattern image signals. [Extracted from the article]