An apparatus for printing labels can have a printing area, a deflector area designed as a shaft or an edge located behind the printing area in the transport direction of the labels, around which deflector the carrier strip can be guided, and where the labels, on account of their stiffness, can be detached...http://www.google.com.au/patents/US5395174?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5395174 - Apparatus for printing labels
