Dye donor web loading apparatus for a thermal printer
    1.
    发明授权
    Dye donor web loading apparatus for a thermal printer 失效
    用于热敏打印机的染色供体卷筒纸装载装置

    公开(公告)号:US5513920A

    公开(公告)日:1996-05-07

    申请号:US968931

    申请日:1992-10-29

    CPC分类号: B41J17/36 B41J17/16 B41J17/32

    摘要: A thermal printer has a dye donor supply spool with a body and first and second end portions extending from the body. First and second receptacles are positioned for matingly receiving the first and second end portions of the dye donor supply spool. The supply spool is correctly loaded only when the first and second end portions of the supply spool matingly engage the first and second receptacles, respectively. A mechanical stop prevents incorrect end for end loading of a supply spool that has an off center web wound thereon by engaging the web and preventing the end of the spool from engaging the receptacle.

    摘要翻译: 热敏打印机具有带有主体的染料供体供给卷轴,第一和第二端部从主体延伸。 定位第一和第二容器以配合地接收染料供体供料卷轴的第一和第二端部。 仅当供应卷轴的第一和第二端部分别与第一和第二容器配合地接合时,供应卷轴才被正确地加载。 机械止动件防止错误的端部通过接合卷筒纸并阻止卷轴的端部与插座接合而使其卷绕在其上的供给卷轴的端部装载。

    Printer with multi-pass media transport

    公开(公告)号:US07250959B2

    公开(公告)日:2007-07-31

    申请号:US11176147

    申请日:2005-07-07

    IPC分类号: B41J2/38

    CPC分类号: B41J2/325 B41J11/002

    摘要: A thermal printer and method for operating a thermal printer are provided. The thermal printer has a receiver medium path leading past a print nip between a print head and platen. A processor causes an urge roller to move the receiver medium in the forward direction until a trailing edge of the receiver medium is moved to a point where reverse movement of the receiver medium causes the receiver medium to located against a stop surface. The processor then enables the receiver medium to travel in the reverse direction to engage the stop surface wherein the receiver medium path guides the receiver medium along a path of known length from the stop surface to a print line at the print nip.

    Reversed thermal head printing
    4.
    发明授权
    Reversed thermal head printing 失效
    反转热敏打印

    公开(公告)号:US07479976B2

    公开(公告)日:2009-01-20

    申请号:US11342788

    申请日:2006-01-30

    申请人: Michael J. Ehmann

    发明人: Michael J. Ehmann

    IPC分类号: B41J2/325

    摘要: A printer and method for operating a printer are provided. The printer has a printhead adapted to heat a thermal donor medium to transfer donor material from a donor web to a receiver medium; a receiver medium path having guides shaped to direct receiver medium along a receiver medium travel path to and from a position in registration with the printhead with said receiver medium path having at least one change of receiver medium direction therein causing said receiver medium to bend; and a motorized platen for moving receiver medium through the receiver medium path, wherein said receiver medium path is further shaped so that the change in receiver medium direction occurs in a portion of the receiver medium path that takes the receiver medium from a position in registration with the printhead.

    摘要翻译: 提供一种用于操作打印机的打印机和方法。 打印机具有适于加热供热介质以将供体材料从供体网转移到接收介质的打印头; 接收器介质路径具有成形为沿着接收器介质的接收介质的接收介质行进路径的引导件,所述接收器介质移动到与所述打印头对准的位置,所述接收器介质路径具有至少一个接收器介质方向的改变,从而使所述接收器介质弯曲; 以及用于通过接收器介质路径移动接收器介质的电动压板,其中所述接收器介质路径被进一步成形为使得接收器介质方向的改变发生在接收器介质路径的从接收器介质注入位置的一部分中, 打印头。

    Borderless platen drive printing
    5.
    发明授权
    Borderless platen drive printing 失效
    无边距压板驱动打印

    公开(公告)号:US07507046B2

    公开(公告)日:2009-03-24

    申请号:US11091155

    申请日:2005-03-28

    申请人: Michael J. Ehmann

    发明人: Michael J. Ehmann

    IPC分类号: B41J11/00

    摘要: A printer has a path for a sheet. A donor web is disposed on one side of the path; a platen roller is disposed on the other side of the path and supports the sheet during printing. An edge sensor is located in path at a known distance from the nip of the print head and the platen. Edge sensor senses the lead edge of the sheet and then the control circuit drives the lead edge to a distance D from the heat line of the print head. The head lowers, is selectively energized and the platen moves to carry the donor web and sheet past the head and provide a borderless printed image on the sheet.

    摘要翻译: 打印机具有纸张的路径。 供体腹板设置在路径的一侧; 压印辊设置在路径的另一侧,并在打印期间支撑片材。 边缘传感器位于距离打印头和压板的辊隙已知距离的路径中。 边缘传感器感测纸张的前缘,然后控制电路将引线边缘驱动距离打印头热线的距离D。 头部下降,被选择性地通电,并且压板移动以将供体纤维网和片材运送通过头部,并在片材上提供无边界打印图像。

    Thermal printer donor guide roller
    6.
    发明授权
    Thermal printer donor guide roller 失效
    热敏打印机供体导辊

    公开(公告)号:US5144335A

    公开(公告)日:1992-09-01

    申请号:US769695

    申请日:1991-10-02

    CPC分类号: B41J17/28 B41J2/325

    摘要: A guide roller assembly is provided for a thermal printer to prevent the varying donor web tension from compromising the constant head load. The guide roller is mounted on a frame that is independent of the head loading assembly so that variations in web tension do not impact the head loading.

    摘要翻译: 为热敏打印机提供引导辊组件,以防止变化的供体卷筒纸张力损害恒定的头部负荷。 引导辊安装在独立于头部装载组件的框架上,使得卷筒纸张力的变化不影响头部装载。