Incremental printing of symbolic information – Thermal marking apparatus or processes – Record receiver and transfer medium feeding or driving means
Patent
1996-04-30
1998-11-17
Wong, Peter S.
Incremental printing of symbolic information
Thermal marking apparatus or processes
Record receiver and transfer medium feeding or driving means
347 15, 400120, B41J 1300
Patent
active
058383573
ABSTRACT:
A thermal printer (10) is useful for printing onto a receiver sheet (22, 24, 26) and includes an elongated rotatable platen (34); an elongated thermal print head (30) positioned parallel to the platen; a supply roll (28) of dye donor web (31) positioned upstream of the print head; a mechanism (76-112, 132-142) for pressing the print head into engagement with the dye donor web and, in an absence of a receiver sheet, for pressing the dye donor web into engagement with the platen; and a mechanism (180-188) for rotating the platen, while the print head is pressing the dye donor web against the platen, to move the dye donor web between the print head and the platen.
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Fisher Terrence Lee
Kordovich Vlade Josif
Maslanka Daniel Charles
Eastman Kodak Company
Patel Rajnikant B.
Snee, III Charles E.
Stewart Gordon M.
Wong Peter S.
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