Incremental printing of symbolic information – Thermal marking apparatus or processes
Patent
1997-07-17
1999-09-07
Tran, Huan
Incremental printing of symbolic information
Thermal marking apparatus or processes
347213, 347224, B41J 2445, B41J 2475
Patent
active
059494646
ABSTRACT:
A recording device having a highly integrated recording head, which can perform high-quality high-speed printing of halftone image and which is compact and inexpensive to manufacture and can work at reduced running cost (with no need of replacing its recording head due to contamination with ink) and at saved power consumption. The recording device comprises an ink feeding unit for applying ultraviolet curing ink to an image transfer intermediate, an ultraviolet ink-curing head for selectively ultraviolet curing ink applied to the image transfer intermediate according to an image pattern, a platen for pressing a recording medium against the image transfer intermediate to transfer not-cured ink from the image transfer intermediate onto the recording medium, ultraviolet thermal ink-curing unit for fixing the ink on the recording medium and an ink removing unit for removing residual ink from the image transfer intermediate.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4580142 (1986-04-01), Matsushita
Abe Shingo
Hirata Susumu
Inui Tetsuya
Ishii Yorishige
Matoba Hirotsugu
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
Tran Huan
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