Combination ink or dye ribbon for nonimpact printing

Details Combination ink or dye ribbon for nonimpact printing Combination ink or dye ribbon for nonimpact printing

1993-03-30

1995-08-29

Yan, Ren

Typewriting machines

Including interposed inking device for record-medium

Ribbon, per se

400237, B41J 3300

Patent

active

054454638

ABSTRACT:
A nonimpact printer accommodates ribbons of selected panel types such as y, m, c and black thermal transfer or dye diffusion, precoat, overcoat, and the like, or combinations thereof, on which ribbon identification data is recorded in terms of the number and disposition of such panels, optimum operating parameters and the like. Each ribbon also contains markers identifying sets of panels of different types, individual panels within such sets, and incremental positions within such panels, and the printer is designed to read such markers and record the movement of the ribbon therethrough. Means are also described for fabricating combination ribbons that employ more than one of the various nonimpact technologies. In addition, the printer records by several different means the ribbon positions at which a ribbon has been in use and provides means for moving the ribbon to unused portions thereof. Such usage data are also recorded in a non-volatile memory chip attached to the ribbon cassette, so that they can be recovered and used after a power failure or after the cassette has been removed and replaced.

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IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin vol. 22, No. 7 Dec. 1979 "Multicolor printing".

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