Thermal color printer

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1997-04-02

1999-05-11

Tran, Huan

Incremental printing of symbolic information

Thermal marking apparatus or processes

With transfer medium or driving means therefor

347215, 400232, B41J33/36

Patent

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059032995

ABSTRACT:
A compact thermal color printer enables the use of a thermal type printing medium having heat sublimation type inks for a multiple-print use and a heat melting type ink for a single-print use. In the process of printing characters or symbols, using the two types of inks, by pressing the printing medium against a print object through a thermal head, the transport distances for the thermal print medium and the print object are adjusted, depending on whether a heat sublimation type ink is being printed or a heat melting type ink is being printed. This arrangement for the transport distance adjustments enables to simplify the printer drives to make the apparatus more compact, and enables to reduce consumption of the sublimation type inks for color printing and increases the service life of the printing ribbon to reduce the operating cost.

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