Thermal demand printer
    31.
    发明授权
    Thermal demand printer 失效
    热需求打印机

    公开(公告)号:US5657066A

    公开(公告)日:1997-08-12

    申请号:US957262

    申请日:1992-10-02

    摘要: A thermal demand printer for printing on media is a novel system which includes a case structure including a hinged cover panel, easily removable guide structures and media hanger, and a single central support wall to which the various components are attached. The printer includes a power supply circuit for receiving power from an external source and conditioning it for operation of the printer. An input device is provided for receiving command signals related to the operation of the printer. A control circuit for processing the command signals and generating corresponding control signals for controlling the operation of the printer and a printhead assembly for processing the control signals and generating corresponding control signals for controlling the operation of the printer are mounted in the case structure and coupled to the input device and the power supply circuit. The printhead assembly includes a printhead support structure which controls the printhead. A ribbon take-up spindle, method of operating the take-up spindle using a PMDC motor, and a spring wrap clutch device help to control the tension in the transfer ribbon used in the printer. The printer also includes a medial sensor and a method of sensing media by way of detecting the opacity of the media passing through the sensor. The printer includes a method of printhead control using double data loading and a method of accelerating and decelerating media relative to the printhead using pulse width modulation.

    摘要翻译: 用于在介质上打印的热需求打印机是一种新颖的系统,其包括壳体结构,其包括铰接盖板,易于拆卸的导向结构和介质悬挂器,以及单个中心支撑壁,各个部件附接到该中心支撑壁。 打印机包括用于从外部源接收电力并对其进行调理以用于打印机的操作的电源电路。 提供输入装置用于接收与打印机的操作有关的命令信号。 用于处理命令信号并产生用于控制打印机的操作的相应控制信号的控制电路和用于处理控制信号并产生用于控制打印机操作的相应控制信号的打印头组件安装在壳体结构中并耦合到 输入设备和电源电路。 打印头组件包括一个控制打印头的打印头支撑结构。 带状卷取轴,使用PMDC电机操作卷取轴的方法以及弹簧卷绕离合器装置有助于控制打印机中使用的转印带中的张力。 打印机还包括内侧传感器和通过检测通过传感器的介质的不透明度来感测介质的方法。 打印机包括使用双重数据加载的打印头控制方法和使用脉冲宽度调制相对于打印头加速和减速介质的方法。

    Thermal printer for selectively printing on one or more sheets of paper
    32.
    发明授权
    Thermal printer for selectively printing on one or more sheets of paper 失效
    热敏打印机,用于在一张或多张纸上选择性打印

    公开(公告)号:US5608440A

    公开(公告)日:1997-03-04

    申请号:US537554

    申请日:1995-10-02

    申请人: Eisuke Takebe

    发明人: Eisuke Takebe

    IPC分类号: B41J2/32 B41J2/35

    CPC分类号: B41J2/32 B41J2/35

    摘要: A thermal printer capable of performing multiple printing on a plurality of superposed recording paper sheets adapted for multiple printing. The thermal printer has a first printing mode for printing on heat-sensitive paper, a second printing mode for printing on plain paper by melting and transferring ink of an ink ribbon, and a third mode for multiple printing on multiple-printing sheets. Each of these printing modes is selected by a printing mode select switch. A control unit is provided which controls the traveling speed of a carriage and a unit time period for energizing a thermal head based on the selected printing mode.

    摘要翻译: 一种热敏打印机,其能够在适于多次印刷的多个重叠的记录纸上进行多次打印。 热敏打印机具有用于在热敏纸上打印的第一打印模式,用于通过熔化和转印墨带的墨水在普通纸上打印的第二打印模式,以及在多张打印纸上进行多次打印的第三模式。 这些打印模式中的每一种由打印模式选择开关选择。 提供控制单元,其控制滑架的行进速度和用于基于所选择的打印模式激励热敏头的单位时间段。

    Thermal printer for printing labels
    33.
    发明授权
    Thermal printer for printing labels 失效
    热敏打印机用于打印标签

    公开(公告)号:US5534890A

    公开(公告)日:1996-07-09

    申请号:US79121

    申请日:1993-06-17

    CPC分类号: B41J2/35

    摘要: A thermal printer is equipped with apparatus for allowing the thermal printer to be quickly and easily adapted to the type of paper currently being used without the need for testing and adjusting to obtain an essentially optimum print quality. The printer can also be equipped with a temperature sensor, attached to the thermal print head and connected to the computer control to essentially also produce printed images of uniformly high quality regardless of temperature fluctuations of the thermal print head. The necessary information for providing the adjustment values for producing the high quality print can be stored in a read/write memory connected to the processor. Thus, for each thermal print head temperature, there can be a reference energy value which determines the amount of thermal energy to be generated by the heating elements, whereby the processor, after measuring the thermal print head temperature, selects a reference energy value corresponding to the temperature, and transmits it to the control circuit of the thermal print head.

    摘要翻译: 热敏打印机配备有用于允许热敏打印机快速且容易地适应当前使用的纸张类型的装置,而不需要测试和调整以获得基本上最佳的打印质量。 打印机还可以配备温度传感器,连接到热打印头并连接到计算机控制器,基本上也可以产生均匀高质量的打印图像,而与热打印头的温度波动无关。 用于提供用于产生高质量打印的调整值的必要信息可以存储在连接到处理器的读/写存储器中。 因此,对于每个热打印头温度,可以存在确定由加热元件产生的热能量的参考能量值,由此处理器在测量热打印头温度之后,选择对应于 温度,并将其传送到热敏打印头的控制电路。

    Thermal transfer recording method including preheating thermal transfer
recording medium
    34.
    发明授权
    Thermal transfer recording method including preheating thermal transfer recording medium 失效
    热转印记录方法,包括预热热转印记录介质

    公开(公告)号:US5529408A

    公开(公告)日:1996-06-25

    申请号:US475417

    申请日:1995-06-07

    摘要: A thermal transfer recording and correction method, in which a thermal transfer ink layer is placed in contact with a transfer-receiving medium and is heated by heat generating elements of a thermal head in a pattern corresponding to a recording signal, is improved by preheating the ink layer. The ink layer, which is characterized by a transfer initiation temperature, is preheated by the thermal head which is heated by a preheating means. When a region of the ink layer is then further heated by the heat generating elements, the temperature of that region has a maximum and a minimum both within a range extending from the transfer initiation temperature to about 40.degree. C. higher than the transfer initiation temperature. Since the maximum and minimum temperatures are within a suppressed temperature range, an erroneous image can be more easily peeled off the transfer-receiving medium.

    摘要翻译: 热转印记录和校正方法通过预热热转印记录和校正方法,其中热转印油墨层与转印接收介质接触并通过与记录信号对应的图案的热敏头的发热元件加热 油墨层。 以转印起始温度为特征的油墨层由被预热装置加热的热敏头预热。 当油墨层的区域然后被发热元件进一步加热时,该区域的温度在从转印起始温度至约40℃延伸的范围内具有最大和最小值,高于转印起始温度 。 由于最大和最小温度处于抑制温度范围内,所以错误的图像可以更容易地从转印接收介质剥离。

    Method for controlling a thermal printer to increase resolution
    35.
    发明授权
    Method for controlling a thermal printer to increase resolution 失效
    控制热敏打印机以提高分辨率的方法

    公开(公告)号:US5519426A

    公开(公告)日:1996-05-21

    申请号:US146506

    申请日:1993-11-01

    IPC分类号: B41J2/35 G06K15/02

    CPC分类号: B41J2/35 G06K15/028

    摘要: A method for controlling binary thermal printers increases the effective output resolution of the thermal printer above the native resolution of a print head having a plurality of individual resistive heating elements arranged in a print line. An increase in the effective resolution of a binary output image is achieved by using an over-drive energy to control a relative position of a binary edge of a pixel image at a resolution that is less than the native resolution of the thermal printer. In a preferred embodiment, an under-drive energy may also be used with an adjacent over-drive energy to further control the relative position of the binary image of the pixel image. The over-drive energy is higher than a native pixel drive energy, but lower than a maximum drive energy. The native pixel drive energy produces a binary pixel image having a native area corresponding to the native resolution of the thermal printer. The binary pixel image on the print media corresponding to the heating elements to which the over-drive energy is applied are increased in area beyond the native area of the thermal printer, thereby enabling the thermal printer to realize an increase in an effective resolution of the binary image.

    摘要翻译: 用于控制二进制热敏打印机的方法将热敏打印机的有效输出分辨率提高到具有布置在打印行中的多个单独电阻加热元件的打印头的原始分辨率。 通过使用过驱动能量以小于热敏打印机的原始分辨率的分辨率来控制像素图像的二进制边缘的相对位置来实现二进制输出图像的有效分辨率的增加。 在优选实施例中,还可以使用低驱动能量与相邻的过驱动能量来进一步控制像素图像的二值图像的相对位置。 过驱动能量高于原始像素驱动能量,但低于最大驱动能量。 原始像素驱动能量产生具有对应于热敏打印机的原始分辨率的本地区域的二进制像素图像。 与施加有过驱动能量的加热元件对应的打印介质上的二进制像素图像的面积增加超过热敏打印机的本地区域,从而使得热打印机能够实现增加有效分辨率 二进制图像。

    Recording apparatus with cascade connected integrated drive circuits
    36.
    发明授权
    Recording apparatus with cascade connected integrated drive circuits 失效
    具有串联连接的集成驱动电路的记录装置

    公开(公告)号:US5519416A

    公开(公告)日:1996-05-21

    申请号:US50627

    申请日:1993-04-22

    CPC分类号: B41J2/35

    摘要: A recording apparatus includes a plurality of recording elements a plurality of drive ICs, in which a plurality of drive signal lines containing a signal line for an image data signal and a signal line for a transfer clock which transfers the image data signal are connected in cascade. Each drive IC supplies a recording current selectively to the recording elements in correspondence to the image data signal. A transfer clock control circuit, which is located at an input part of the transfer clock in the recording apparatus, controls a duty of the transfer clock supplied to the drive ICs so that a duty ratio of the transfer clock at the final stage of the plurality of drive ICs is enough to transfer the image data signal.

    摘要翻译: 记录装置包括多个记录元件,多个驱动IC,其中包含用于图像数据信号的信号线的多个驱动信号线和用于传送图像数据信号的传送时钟的信号线级联连接 。 每个驱动IC对应于图像数据信号选择性地向记录元件提供记录电流。 位于记录装置中的传送时钟的输入部分的传送时钟控制电路控制提供给驱动IC的传送时钟的占空比,使得在多个传输时钟的最后阶段的传送时钟的占空比 的驱动IC足以传输图像数据信号。

    Thermal head and method for driving the same
    37.
    发明授权
    Thermal head and method for driving the same 失效
    热头及其驱动方法

    公开(公告)号:US5442381A

    公开(公告)日:1995-08-15

    申请号:US80928

    申请日:1993-06-22

    IPC分类号: B41J2/37 B41J2/35

    CPC分类号: B41J2/37

    摘要: Disclosed is a thermal head comprising: plural heating elements, and a driving circuit element comprising plural switching elements connected individually to the heating elements, gate elements connected individually to the switching elements, and a shift register connected to the gate elements; wherein the plural heating elements are divided into plural blocks, and the gate elements of each block are connected to plural shift registers in the same number of bits as the number of heating elements of each block individually; strobe signals in the same number as the number of divisions of the block are fed into gate elements corresponding to each block; a clock gate element is provided in each block in order to obstruct clock input into the shift register corresponding to each block when printing of each block is active; and each block is further divided into plural small blocks, and the heating elements corresponding to each small block are disposed in every different block.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种热敏头,包括:多个加热元件,以及包括单独连接到加热元件的多个开关元件,分别连接到开关元件的栅极元件和连接到栅极元件的移位寄存器的驱动电路元件; 其中多个加热元件被分成多个块,并且每个块的门元件分别以与每个块的加热元件的数量相同的位数连接到多个移位寄存器; 与块的分割数相同数量的选通信号被馈送到对应于每个块的门元件; 在每个块中提供时钟门元件,以便在每个块的打印有效时阻止与每个块对应的移位寄存器的时钟输入; 并且每个块进一步分成多个小块,并且与每个小块对应的加热元件设置在每个不同的块中。

    Compatible thermal head having strobe signal converting member
    38.
    发明授权
    Compatible thermal head having strobe signal converting member 失效
    具有选通信号转换构件的兼容热头

    公开(公告)号:US5438346A

    公开(公告)日:1995-08-01

    申请号:US25647

    申请日:1993-03-03

    IPC分类号: B41J2/355 B41J2/32 B41J2/35

    CPC分类号: B41J2/32

    摘要: A compatible thermal head includes multiple heat generating elements arranged in a row on a substrate, and multiple drive devices, selectively coupled to the heat generating elements, for driving a corresponding at least one of the heat generating elements. The quantity of drive devices is less than the quantity of heat generating elements. Also included in the thermal head are a strobe signal input device for receiving multiple external strobe signals as input, and a number-of-strobe-signals converting device, integral to the thermal head and coupled to the strobe signal input device, for converting the multiple external strobe signals received by the strobe signal input device into multiple internal strobe signals. The quantity of the internal strobe signals is greater than the quantity of the external strobe signals. The number-of-strobe-signals converting device supplies the internal strobe signals to corresponding ones of the drive devices to cause the drive devices to drive the corresponding at least one heat generating element in accordance with the internal strobe signal.

    摘要翻译: 兼容的热敏头包括在衬底上排列成一行的多个发热元件,以及选择性地耦合到发热元件的多个驱动装置,用于驱动对应的至少一个发热元件。 驱动装置的数量小于发热元件的数量。 热敏头中还包括用于接收多个外部选通信号作为输入的选通信号输入装置,以及与热敏头一体并耦合到选通信号输入装置的数量选通信号转换装置,用于转换 多个外部选通信号由选通信号输入装置接收到多个内部选通信号。 内部选通信号的数量大于外部选通信号的数量。 频数信号转换装置将内部选通信号提供给对应的驱动装置,以使驱动装置根据内部选通信号驱动对应的至少一个发热元件。

    Thermal printing system
    39.
    发明授权
    Thermal printing system 失效
    热敏打印系统

    公开(公告)号:US5389959A

    公开(公告)日:1995-02-14

    申请号:US246384

    申请日:1994-05-20

    申请人: Daniel D. Haas

    发明人: Daniel D. Haas

    CPC分类号: B41J2/475

    摘要: There is disclosed a thermal printer system having a multiple channel laser print head which focuses closely spaced spots of laser light energy onto a dye donor element which moves at constant velocity relatively past the print head. These laser light spots respectively print multiple lines of an image a swath at a time by heat transfer of pixels or subpixels of dye from the dye donor element to a receiver element. A light source (such as an arc lamp) applies to the dye donor element one or more precisely positioned spots of light energy which elevate the temperature of the dye donor element substantially uniformly within a zone coincidently with and closely surrounding the laser light spots. The shape, the position and the power absorbed within the zone from the light source are carefully controlled. Thus the temperature within this zone is held to a substantially uniform value slightly below the vaporization temperature of the dye to be transferred from the dye donor element. In this way the linearity and fidelity of a printed image are substantially improved, and "printing artifacts" such as banding and streaking are reduced.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种具有多通道激光打印头的热敏打印机系统,该多通道激光打印头将紧密间隔的激光光斑聚焦到染色供体元件上,所述染料供体元件以恒定的速度相对超过打印头。 这些激光光点通过将染料的像素或子像素从染料供体元件热传递到接收器元件,一次分别打印图像的多行图像。 光源(例如弧光灯)适用于染料供体元件一个或多个精确定位的光能点,其在与激光光点重合并紧密围绕的区域内基本均匀地升高染料供体元件的温度。 从光源吸收的形状,位置和功率被仔细控制。 因此,该区域内的温度被保持在略低于从染料供体元件转移的染料的蒸发温度的基本均匀的值。 以这种方式,印刷图像的线性和保真度得到显着提高,并且减少了诸如条带和条纹之类的“打印伪影”。

    Recording method and apparatus for preheating a thermally activated
printing read
    40.
    发明授权
    Recording method and apparatus for preheating a thermally activated printing read 失效
    用于预热热激活打印头的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US5381164A

    公开(公告)日:1995-01-10

    申请号:US933662

    申请日:1992-08-24

    申请人: Takeshi Ono

    发明人: Takeshi Ono

    摘要: A recording apparatus for performing recording on a recording medium includes a plurality of recording elements, and a control unit for selectively providing energy having a level lower than an actual recording level to adjacent ones of the plurality of recording elements and to successively apply the energy to the see recording element when the energy is applied to the recording elements within waiting time from an end of a recording operation to a start of the next recording operation.

    摘要翻译: 用于在记录介质上执行记录的记录装置包括多个记录元件,以及控制单元,用于向多个记录元件中的相邻记录元件选择性地提供具有低于实际记录电平的能量的能量,并且将能量依次施加到 当在从记录操作结束到下一记录操作开始的等待时间内将能量施加到记录元件时,观看记录元件。