Transfer printer and method
    1.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11919320B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-05

    申请号:US17590323

    申请日:2022-02-01

    摘要: A method for monitoring a characteristic of a printed image of a thermal transfer printer. The method comprises providing a ribbon and a substrate at a printing location of the thermal transfer printer. The method further comprises printing an image on the substrate at the printing location by transferring ink from a region of the ribbon in a printing operation, a negative image being formed on the region of ribbon. The method further comprises transporting the region of ribbon, by a ribbon transport system, from the printing location towards an imaging location along a ribbon transport path. The method further comprises when a characteristic of the ribbon transport meets a predetermined criterion, obtaining, by an image capture system, a ribbon image of the negative image. The method further comprises processing said ribbon image to generate data indicative of the characteristic of the printed image.

    Handy printer
    2.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11642895B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-05-09

    申请号:US17652544

    申请日:2022-02-25

    发明人: Yukio Shibata

    IPC分类号: B41J2/36 B41J2/21 B41J3/36

    CPC分类号: B41J2/36 B41J2/2135 B41J3/36

    摘要: A print processing portion causes a print device to execute printing of a print image based on print data in accordance with a first scanning amount detected when manual scanning is performed at a first time. A density complementation processing portion causes the print processing portion to execute reprinting in accordance with a second scanning amount detected when the manual scanning is performed at at least a second time. When the manual scanning is performed at at least the second time, the density complementation processing portion identifies density insufficient parts in the print image printed by the print device based on the scanning amount and an image read by an optical reading device. Furthermore, the density complementation processing portion causes the print processing portion to execute the reprinting for the density insufficient parts.

    Thermal transfer printer and printing method using same

    公开(公告)号:US09981481B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-05-29

    申请号:US15515233

    申请日:2015-09-17

    摘要: Irregularities in the density that can occur in printed images of a thermal transfer printer due to mechanical variations or variations in thermal characteristics in the thermal head are more easily and accurately corrected as compared to cases not having the features of the disclosed invention. The thermal transfer printer includes a thermal head including heating elements and causing the heating elements to generate heat and transfer ink onto a sheet to print an image on the sheet, a storage unit for storing a first correspondence between a heating element in the thermal head and a correction amount of energy applied to the heating element and a second correspondence between a density of an image to be printed and an adjustment coefficient of the correction amount, and a control unit for correcting energy applied to each heating element by an amount obtained by multiplying the correction amount for the heating element obtained from the first correspondence by the adjustment coefficient obtained from the second correspondence according to a density of an image to be newly printed. The first correspondence is generated from a density distribution of a test image printed based on image data of a single tone.

    Liquid ejecting method
    4.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US09878540B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-01-30

    申请号:US15467270

    申请日:2017-03-23

    摘要: A liquid ejecting method includes ejecting droplets of an oil-based ink containing an oil-based medium onto a recording medium by using an ink jet head having a plurality of nozzles under the conditions satisfying relationships (1): f×D≧4800; and relationship (2): 5≦ρVd/η≦30. In the relationships (1) and (2), D represents the nozzle pitch in dpi of the ink jet head, f represents the maximum ejection frequency in kHz, V represents the velocity in m/s of droplets ejected from the ink jet head, d represents the diameter in μm of the droplets of the oil-based ink, ρ represents the density in g/cm3 of the oil-based ink, and η represents the viscosity in mPa·s of the oil-based ink.

    Image forming apparatus and image forming method
    7.
    发明授权
    Image forming apparatus and image forming method 有权
    图像形成装置及图像形成方法

    公开(公告)号:US09429882B2

    公开(公告)日:2016-08-30

    申请号:US14783057

    申请日:2015-01-07

    发明人: Takeshi Yamazaki

    摘要: Damage caused to a transfer medium due to heat when partially using transfer material regions is suppressed. An image forming apparatus (1) includes a transporting unit (4A, 4B) which transports a belt-like transfer medium (4) on which transfer material regions (Y, M, C, OP) of a first size respectively corresponding to transfer materials are arranged in a predetermined order in a repeated manner along a longitudinal direction thereof, and an image forming unit (3) which transfers the transfer materials in sequence by heating the respective transfer material regions and thereby forms on a recording medium an image with the first size or an image with a second size which is not larger than one half the first size. When forming an image with the second size, the image forming unit either uses unused portions of transfer material regions that have already been used to form an image with the second size or uses new transfer material regions on the transfer medium. When forming the image with the second size by using the new transfer material regions, the image forming unit performs the image formation at a slower speed than when forming an image with the first size.

    摘要翻译: 抑制了部分使用转印材料区域时由于热导致的转印介质的损伤。 图像形成装置(1)包括传送单元(4A,4B),其传送带状转印介质(4),转印材料区域(Y,M,C,OP)分别对应于转印材料 沿着其纵向方向以重复的方式以预定顺序排列;以及图像形成单元(3),其通过加热各个转印材料区域顺序地转印转印材料,从而在记录介质上形成具有第一 尺寸或第二尺寸不大于第一尺寸一半的图像。 当形成具有第二尺寸的图像时,图像形成单元使用已经用于形成具有第二尺寸的图像的转印材料区域的未使用部分,或者在转印介质上使用新的转印材料区域。 当通过使用新的转印材料区域形成具有第二尺寸的图像时,图像形成单元以比形成具有第一尺寸的图像的速度更慢的速度进行图像形成。

    THERMAL PRINTER
    8.
    发明申请
    THERMAL PRINTER 有权
    热打印机

    公开(公告)号:US20160159105A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-06-09

    申请号:US14901787

    申请日:2014-10-10

    IPC分类号: B41J2/355

    摘要: An apparatus for determining the resistance of a printing element of a print head, the apparatus comprising: a print head comprising a plurality of individually controllable printing elements connected in parallel, and a capacitor connected in parallel with the printing elements; a test voltage supply arranged to supply a test voltage to the print head; a current monitor arranged to measure the current supplied to one of the printing elements when the said one of the printing elements is connected to the test voltage supply; and a controller arranged to determine the resistance of the said one of the printing elements based upon the measured current.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于确定打印头的打印元件的电阻的装置,所述装置包括:打印头,包括并联连接的多个可单独控制的打印元件和与打印元件并联连接的电容器; 测试电压电源,布置成向打印头提供测试电压; 电流监视器,被布置成当所述打印元件中的一个连接到所述测试电压源时,测量供应给所述打印元件中的一个的电流; 以及控制器,其布置成基于所测量的电流来确定所述一个打印元件的电阻。

    Printer apparatus
    9.
    发明授权
    Printer apparatus 有权
    打印机装置

    公开(公告)号:US09333783B1

    公开(公告)日:2016-05-10

    申请号:US14797434

    申请日:2015-07-13

    摘要: A printer apparatus comprises a paper conveyance path on which a paper is conveyed; a carrier which moves in a direction orthogonal to conveyance direction of the paper conveyed on the paper conveyance path; a dot matrix print head which includes head pins arranged in the carrier; an ink ribbon cassette which stores an ink ribbon; a photo sensor which is arranged at the external side of the movement direction of the carrier in the printing area of paper and at the downstream side in the paper conveyance direction of the dot matrix print head; a concentration detection pattern printing module which prints a predetermined concentration detection pattern with the head pins; and an exchange necessity determination section which determines whether to exchange the ink ribbon cassette according to the value obtained by detecting the printing created by the concentration detection pattern printing module through the photo sensor.

    摘要翻译: 一种打印机装置,包括纸张传送路径,纸张被传送到该传送路径上; 沿着与在纸张传送路径上传送的纸张的传送方向正交的方向移动的托架; 点阵打印头,其包括布置在载体中的头针; 存储墨带的色带盒; 布置在纸张的打印区域中的载体的移动方向的外侧的边缘纸张打印头的纸张输送方向的下游侧的光传感器; 浓度检测图案印刷模块,其使用所述头针打印预定浓度检测图案; 以及交换必要性判定部,其根据通过所述光传感器检测由所述浓度检测图案打印模块生成的打印而获得的值来决定是否更换所述色带盒。