Patent ID: 7891892

Claim:
A method of printing comprising: providing a thermal printer with a print head, a platen, a media upon which labels can be printed, a print ribbon for printing on said media and a printer controller; moving said media and said print ribbon for printing by said print head; detecting images having been printed on said label; tapping data from said printer controller to said print head; comparing the images on said label or the tapped data from said printer controller with a non-local pre-established standard, wherein the non-local pre-established standard comprises an American National Standards Institute (ANSI) qualification or other bar code standard; compensating for the speed of the media; comparing component features of a label having been printed to determine if they match features extracted from a bit map for said label; determining coordinates of the label printed; and, analyzing gray scale data on said label to determine if the label meets the pre-established standard.