Thermal printer

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1984-09-12

1986-05-27

Evans, A.

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400120, 358287, H04N 1393, H04N 121

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045918783

ABSTRACT:
A thermal printer comprising a print head having many thermal resistors, a movable carriage with the print head mounted thereon, and a ribbon cassette mounted on the carriage. Print data transmitted from a host system, such as a personal computer, in the form of character code is conducted through a processor into character buffers separately for each line, the print data are transformed into dot-matrix data by character generators CG(L) and CG(S), the converted dot matrix data for two lines are stored through the processor into a dot line buffer, the contents of the dot line buffer are transferred to a shift register, and a head driver for the thermal resistors is activated in response to data from the shift register.

REFERENCES:
IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin, vol. 25, No. 7B, Dec. 1982, by Leontiades, p. 3699.

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