公开(公告)号：US06229558B1

公开(公告)日：2001-05-08

申请号：US09094038

申请日：1998-06-09

申请人： Tatsuji Saigo ,  Takashi Maeda ,  Kazuo Wakabayashi ,  Kensuke Moritan ,  Saburo Imai ,  Shigeru Inagaki ,  Hidenori Fujioka ,  Yuji Hosoi

发明人： Tatsuji Saigo ,  Takashi Maeda ,  Kazuo Wakabayashi ,  Kensuke Moritan ,  Saburo Imai ,  Shigeru Inagaki ,  Hidenori Fujioka ,  Yuji Hosoi

IPC分类号： B41J247

CPC分类号： B41J19/20 ,  B41J2/455 ,  B41J2/473 ,  G03F7/0022

摘要： A printer has a printer body, a carriage for undergoing scanning movement over a print paper in a scanning direction, and a cassette removably connected to the printer body for storing print paper and having a code element indicative of photosensitive characteristics of the print paper. The print paper contains photosensitive microcapsules encapsulating a color developing material and a photo-curing material and has an image receiving layer for developing color by a reaction of the color developing material with the image receiving layer. The carriage has a light emitting element for emitting light of a preselected wavelength to which the photosensitive microcapsules are exposed to thereby form a latent image on the print paper. A photosensitive characteristics identifying mechanism is disposed on the carriage for reading the code element of the cassette to identify the photosensitive characteristics of the print paper. A light emission controller controls the intensity or the time period of emission of the light emitted by the light emitting element in accordance with the photosensitive characteristics of the print paper identified by the photosensitive characteristics identifying mechanism. A pressurizing mechanism applies mechanical pressure to the print paper after a latent image has been formed thereon to collapse the photosensitive microcapsules which were not exposed to the light emitted by the light emitting element and thereby develop the latent image by reaction of the color developing material in the photosensitive microcapsules with the image receiving layer.

摘要翻译： 打印机具有打印机主体，用于在扫描方向上在打印纸上进行扫描运动的托架以及可移除地连接到打印机主体的盒，用于存储打印纸并具有指示打印纸的感光特性的代码元件。 打印纸包含封装彩色显影材料和光固化材料的光敏微胶囊，并且具有通过彩色显影材料与图像接收层反应而显色的图像接收层。 滑架具有用于发射感光微胶囊暴露于其中的预选波长的光的发光元件，从而在打印纸上形成潜像。 感光特性识别机构设置在滑架上用于读取盒的代码元件以识别打印纸的感光特性。 发光控制器根据由感光特性识别机构识别的打印纸的光敏特性来控制由发光元件发射的光的强度或时间周期。 在其上形成潜像之后，加压机构对打印纸施加机械压力，以使未曝光于由发光元件发出的光的感光性微胶囊收缩，从而通过彩色显影材料的反应来显影潜像 光敏微胶囊与图像接收层。