Incremental printing of symbolic information – Thermal marking apparatus or processes – Record receiver and transfer medium feeding or driving means
Patent
1995-05-25
1997-08-26
Tran, Huan H.
Incremental printing of symbolic information
Thermal marking apparatus or processes
Record receiver and transfer medium feeding or driving means
347217, 400234, B41J 3352, B41J 1736
Patent
active
056615159
ABSTRACT:
A thermal printer utilizes a donor web bearing a transfer ink to create enhanced printed images on a strip of sheet material with half-tones, color and other attractive features. The donor web is mounted on supply and take-up spools within a cassette that is removable from the printer in order to change the color or other printing characteristics of the web for various printing operations. A drag brake mounted in the printer connects with the supply spool through a disengageable coupling to maintain tension on the donor web during printing and to allow the web and cassette to be removed from the printer. A feed detection sensor in the form of an optical encoder is also contained within the printer and coupled to the supply spool through the same disengageable coupling utilized by the drag brake to detect feed faults.
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Photographs of Kodak Model XL7700 film cassette (1990).
Hevenor Charles M.
Voelker Martin C.
Gerber Scientific Products, Inc.
Tran Huan H.
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