A drive, comprising a number of bodies of revolution (3) which are pressed against at least one intermediate plate (4) by a drivable first structural member (1) and which can roll thereon. The intermediate plate (4) is connected to the outgoing part (5) of the drive and is supported by a second, plate-shaped structural member (6). The intermediate plate (4) is flexible in the direction transv...

A dye carrier ribbon for hard copy sublimation transfer is formed of a substrate with an ink layer formed on a surface of the substrate. The ink layer mainly comprises a sublimation dye and a binder resin. The binder resin has a glass transition point which is not lower than 55 DEG C, and comprises a resin having bisphenol units therein.

An electronic print board apparatus optically reads characters and figures, etc., written on a plate surface to scale down and print them, and includes a writing unit, a frame, a scanning unit, and a printer. The writing unit is divided into two sections, each of which has a plurality of stacked writable flat plates, a writing surface being formed by a front row of the two sections. The writing su...