Patent Document ID: 20030146970
Application ID: 09683717
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. In a label printer-cutter, a method for controlling plotter cutting of a label media at a label media-specific cutting depth, the method comprising: providing a cutting assembly for plotter cutting the label media in the label printer-cutter, the cutting assembly having a frame, a solenoid connected to the frame, and a plotter cutter connected to the solenoid; providing a memory chip for electronic communication with the cutting assembly, the memory chip having a label media-specific value stored thereon, the label media-specific force value corresponding to a label media-specific cutting force; reading the label media-specific value from the memory chip; converting the label media-specific value to a label media-specific current signal; providing, based on the label media-specific current signal, a label media-specific current; applying the label media-specific current to the solenoid; generating, with the solenoid, the label media-specific cutting force based on the label media-specific current applied to the solenoid; and transferring, to the plotter cutter, the label media-specific cutting force generated at the solenoid so that the plotter cutter will be controlled to plotter cut the label media of the label printer-cutter at the label media-specific cutting depth.