Typewriting machines – Sheet or web – Including friction-feed means
Patent
1996-05-06
1997-07-08
Hilten, John S.
Typewriting machines
Sheet or web
Including friction-feed means
400634, 226193, G41J 13076
Patent
active
056453612
ABSTRACT:
In a thermal-transfer-type color printer, an ink ribbon and a paper are sandwiched between a thermal head and a platen roller so that a specific image is transferred onto the paper in a specific color. The platen roller is made by a rubber material which has a certain degree of hardness. On the surface of the ink ribbon, plural colors of ink are sequentially and repeatedly painted. Hence, after transferring an image onto the paper in one color, the paper is moved backward; and then, another image is transferred onto the paper in another color. Thus, a multi-color printing is performed. In order to avoid a color shade or an printing error, in which a printing position of one-color image does not accurately match with a printing position of another-color image, the paper should be accurately moved forward and backward. In order to do so, the thermal-transfer-type color printer provides a precise paper-feed mechanism which comprises a pinch roller and a paper-feed roller. Around a surface of the paper-feed roller, micro projections are formed in predetermined size and shape, so that the paper is certainly held between the pinch roller and paper-feed roller. The micro projections can be formed at a selected surface area of the paper-feed roller. Those micro projections are formed by carrying out an etching process using a masking pattern formed at a certain surface area of the paper-feed roller.
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Kawahara Kenichi
Kawamura Shigeyuki
Mitsushima Susumu
Nakagawa Hitoshi
Ogita Hiromitsu
Hilten John S.
Shinko Electric Co. Ltd.
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