摘要:
An image is printed on a substrate by means of a computer driven printer using heat activated dyes, without activating the dyes during the process of printing onto the substrate. The dyes are subsequently activated by applying sufficient heat and pressure to the substrate to activate the dyes.
摘要:
A transport path for transporting a recording paper or a cleaning sheet shifts between a recording position and a cleaning position. In the recording position, heating elements press against the recording paper, while a substrate does not come in contact with the recording paper. In the cleaning position, the cleaning sheet comes in contact with a heating element array and a part of the substrate at the downstream side of the heating element array. The cleaning sheet rubs stains off the heating element array and the downstream area when transported.
摘要:
A thermal head includes a heat storage layer disposed on a substrate surface by lamination, a plurality of heating elements disposed on the heat storage layer, a plurality of individual electrodes, each connected individually to one end-portion of a heating element in the length direction of the resistance, and a common electrode electrically connected to the other end-portions of all heating elements in the length direction of the resistance, wherein the above-described substrate is a Si substrate having a resistivity of 20 mΩ·cm or less, the Si substrate is provided with an exposure region including no heat storage layer, and a contact portion is disposed on the exposure region, so as to keep the common electrode and the Si substrate surface in ohmic contact.
摘要:
A cleaning roller and a platen roller are provided in a first rotating plate which rotates around a main shaft. The cleaning roller and the platen roller are disposed at an equal distance from the main shaft. In printing, the platen roller is positioned at a facing position to face the thermal head. In cleaning the thermal head, the rotating plate rotates to retract the platen roller from the facing position, and then the cleaning roller is positioned at the facing position in place of the platen roller. The foreign matters on the thermal head are scraped off by rotating the cleaning roller in a state that the cleaning roller is contacted with the thermal head.
摘要:
A method of discriminating a type of recording medium and a discriminating apparatus in which the type of recording medium is discriminated based on a temperature change of the recording medium when the recording medium is heated.
摘要:
A head support base for a thermal printer to provide for movement of a thermal head relative to a printer paper drive roll and control the location of the thermal head relative to the paper drive roll including first and second spaced support plates, the first spaced support plate is a lower plate and is provided with support a posterior fin, anterior fins 3, three anterior ledges, a posterior ledge, and four springs, one placed onto each ledge. The first support plate is centrally provided with an opening into which a hook is inserted for connection with its other end to an upper or second spaced support plate to carry the thermal head and place the springs in compression or expansion and to limit their movement while permitting relative mobility of the first or lower support plate relative to the spaced second or upper support plate and consequently of the thermal head connected with the second or upper support plate to permit movement of the thermal head in all directions relative to the paper drive roll.
摘要:
A thermal transfer image-receiving sheet comprising: a receiving layer comprising a polyester resin, which is formed on at least one of faces of a substrate sheet as an outermost surface layer, wherein the receiving layer has a storage elastic modulus of not less than 2,000 [Pa] and a loss elastic modulus of not less than 10,000 [Pa] as dynamic viscoelasticity at 160° C. and the resin component contains an alicyclic carboxylic acid and/or an alicyclic diol.
摘要:
A recording apparatus effects recording on a recording material by a recorder. The apparatus includes a tray, mountable to the recording apparatus, for stacking a recording material, a portion to be detected, provided on the tray to permit detection of a position of the tray, and a tray position detecting portion for detecting the portion to be detected. A position of the recording material stacked on the tray is detected by detecting the position of the portion to be detected.
摘要:
A card-flipping device for a card printing apparatus is provided. The card-flipping device comprises a card-carrier unit for transporting the card in a vertical direction, a motor drive means for moving the unit in the vertical direction, and an actuator assembly including a rotatable cam arm for flipping the card over. The card-flipping device is particularly suitable for use in thermal dye printers that print images on card substrates such as driver's licenses, employee badges, student cards, and the like. After one surface of the card has been printed, the card is conveyed to the card-flipping device, where the card is flipped over so that the reverse, unprinted side of the card can be printed thereon.
摘要:
It is an object of the present invention to enable no-margin printing to be achieved without the need to cut off margins, while avoiding a discontinuous output result in which the areas between adjacent print images are missing even if poster printing is carried out. Print data outputted by an input section is stored in an input buffer. One page of print data from the input buffer is inputted to the dividing section. The dividing section divides the one page of print data in accordance with division numbers J and K indicated by an instructing section. The dividing section then outputs the divided print data to a printing section as a plurality of print images. The plurality of print images outputted to the printing section are printed on the respective sheets.