公开(公告)号：US06573923B2

公开(公告)日：2003-06-03

申请号：US09833936

申请日：2001-04-12

申请人： Charles M. Hevenor ,  William J. Tortora ,  William A. Loos ,  Kenneth O. Wood ,  Edward M. Oscarson ,  David M. Mindek ,  Kurt J. Ehrhardt ,  John K. White ,  Raymond J. MacQueen ,  Brian H. Lis ,  Roy Douglas Downey ,  Michael J. Banavige ,  Daniel G. Binnall

发明人： Charles M. Hevenor ,  William J. Tortora ,  William A. Loos ,  Kenneth O. Wood ,  Edward M. Oscarson ,  David M. Mindek ,  Kurt J. Ehrhardt ,  John K. White ,  Raymond J. MacQueen ,  Brian H. Lis ,  Roy Douglas Downey ,  Michael J. Banavige ,  Daniel G. Binnall

IPC分类号： G01D1516

CPC分类号： B41J25/316

摘要： Disclosed are the following: a wide format thermal printer for printing a multicolor graphic product on a printing sheet; a vacuum workbed for supporting a sheet material for performing work operations, such as cutting, printing or plotting, thereon; a replaceable donor sheet assembly, which includes a memory, for use with a thermal printer; methods and apparatus for improved thermal printing, including methods and apparatus for conserving donor sheet and reducing the amount of time required to print a multicolor graphic product; a thermal printhead including a memory; and methods and apparatus for the alignment of a sheet material for printing or performing other work operations on the sheet material. The wide format thermal printer can include provision for the automatic loading of cassettes of donor sheet from a cassette storage rack. The vacuum workbed can include provision for determining the size of the sheet material supported by the workbed, and for controlling the suction applied to the apertures in a worksurface of the workbed. Also disclosed are methods and apparatus for controlling the tension of the donor sheet during printing with a wide format thermal printer.

公开(公告)号：US06493018B1

公开(公告)日：2002-12-10

申请号：US09288424

申请日：1999-04-08

申请人： Charles M. Hevenor ,  William J. Tortora ,  William A. Loos ,  Kenneth O. Wood ,  Edward M. Oscarson ,  David M. Mindek ,  Kurt J. Ehrhardt ,  John K. White ,  Raymond J. MacQueen ,  Brian H. Lis ,  Roy Douglas Downey ,  Michael J. Banavige ,  Daniel G. Binnall

发明人： Charles M. Hevenor ,  William J. Tortora ,  William A. Loos ,  Kenneth O. Wood ,  Edward M. Oscarson ,  David M. Mindek ,  Kurt J. Ehrhardt ,  John K. White ,  Raymond J. MacQueen ,  Brian H. Lis ,  Roy Douglas Downey ,  Michael J. Banavige ,  Daniel G. Binnall

IPC分类号： B41J2325

CPC分类号： B41J25/316

摘要： Disclosed are the following: a wide format thermal printer for printing a multicolor graphic product on a printing sheet; a vacuum workbed for supporting a sheet material for performing work operations, such as cutting, printing or plotting, thereon; a replaceable donor sheet assembly, which includes a memory, for use with a thermal printer; methods and apparatus for improved thermal printing, including methods and apparatus for conserving donor sheet and reducing the amount of time required to print a multicolor graphic product; a thermal printhead including a memory; and methods and apparatus for the alignment of a sheet material for printing or performing other work operations on the sheet material. The wide format thermal printer can include provision for the automatic loading of cassettes of donor sheet from a cassette storage rack. The vacuum workbed can include provision for determining the size of the sheet material supported by the workbed, and for controlling the suction applied to the apertures in a worksurface of the workbed. Also disclosed are methods and apparatus for controlling the tension of the donor sheet during printing with a wide format thermal printer.

摘要翻译： 公开如下：用于在打印纸上打印多色图形产品的宽格式热敏打印机; 用于支撑用于执行诸如切割，印刷或绘图之类的工作操作的片材的真空工作台; 可替换的供体片组件，其包括与热敏打印机一起使用的存储器; 用于改进热敏打印的方法和装置，包括用于保存供体薄片并减少打印多色图形产品所需的时间量的方法和装置; 包括存储器的热打印头; 以及用于在片材上打印或执行其他作业操作的片材的对准的方法和装置。 宽幅热敏打印机可以包括用于从盒式存储架自动装载供体片的盒的设置。 真空工作台可以包括用于确定由工作台支撑的片材的尺寸以及用于控制施加到工作台的工作面中的孔的抽吸。 还公开了用于在用宽格式热敏打印机打印期间控制供体片张力的方法和装置。