Properties:

A mechanically or electrically operated clock which is primarily designed to imprint time data on cards, documents, and the like. It may be equipped to imprint additional data not related to time. It may be actuated manually or automatically by card insertion. It incorporates provisions for automatic, semiautomatic, or manual precise positioning of lined, and/or columned "in and out" time cards, "elapsed time" job cards, and the like. For similar items not having provisions for precise positioning, see stamp, time. See also clock, recording, watchman's. For instruments designed to measure the total operating time of a circuit, machine or system, see meter, time totalizing.