Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
347211000 | Having driving circuitry for recording means | 70 |
20080204540 | THERMAL HEAD DRIVE CIRCUIT AND PRINTER USING THE SAME - A thermal head drive circuit drives M number of thermal heads for printing one line and includes a delay unit that applies different time delays to M bits of print data to be supplied to the corresponding M thermal heads. The higher order the odd number thermal heads of the M thermal heads are, the greater are the time delays applied to the corresponding bits of the print data, while the higher order the even number thermal heads of the M thermal heads are, the less are the time delays applied to the corresponding bits of the print data. | 08-28-2008 |
20080297583 | TWO-SIDED THERMAL PRINT COMMAND - In an embodiment, a method of operating a dual-sided direct thermal printer comprising a first thermal print head on a first side of a media feed path and a second thermal print head on a second side of the media feed path opposite the first side is provided, wherein the method comprises receiving a select thermal printing mode command and operating the dual-sided direct thermal printer according to the received select thermal printing mode command. | 12-04-2008 |
20080297584 | TWO-SIDED THERMAL PRINTER CONTROL - A dual-sided direct thermal printer and methods of operation thereof are provided. In one embodiment, a dual-sided direct thermal printer comprising a first thermal print head on a first side of a media feed path, and a second thermal print head on a second side of the media feed path opposite the first side is provided, wherein the dual-sided direct thermal printer is adapted to apportion received data into a first data portion for printing by the first thermal print head and a second data portion for printing by the second thermal print head. | 12-04-2008 |
20090027477 | Thermal printhead - A thermal printhead includes a substrate, a heating resistor formed on the substrate, a drive IC for controlling power application to the heating resistor, and a thermistor mounted on the substrate and including first and second terminals. The drive IC includes a print execution signal terminal for activation of the heating resistor upon application of a voltage higher than a threshold value. The first terminal of the thermistor is connected with the print execution signal terminal. | 01-29-2009 |
20090073250 | THERMAL PRINTHEAD - In a thermal printhead (A), a common wiring portion ( | 03-19-2009 |
20090160927 | Thermal Marking System - One or more arrays of heating elements are configured with insulating regions to prevent the dissipation of heat to unintended regions of a thermochromic substrate. Methods include printing and arranging impressions on a two-sided substrate avoiding bleeding and other problems more-commonly associated with traditional two-sided thermal printing techniques. A simple and reliable thermal printing system is provided for use in ballot marking, including several mechanisms for receiving and detecting the orientation of a substrate within a thermal printing apparatus. | 06-25-2009 |
20090231409 | PRINT CONTROL DEVICE FOR A THERMAL PRINTER - A print control device for a thermal printer for detecting a failure in a component of the thermal printer to prevent an incorrect printing of an item to be printed which provides for a thermal resistor associated with each component of the printer to render the printer inoperative when the component becomes defective, and a MOSFET for each thermal resistor associated with a feeder, a driver and a group detector which prevents the printer from printing when the thermal resistor changes the effective resistance in the circuit with the MOSFET and the group detector and driver. | 09-17-2009 |
20090309948 | PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus includes a pulse motor which operates to carry a recording medium, a thermal head to print on the recording medium, a pulse motor control unit which controls the pulse motor so that the pulse motor is operated at a carrying velocity based on a print ratio of input print data, a head control unit which controls the thermal head in a first or second head control mode, a head detection unit which detects the type of thermal head attached in the printing apparatus and a judgment unit which judges on the basis of the type of head detected by the head detection unit whether to control the thermal head by the first head control mode or the second head control mode. | 12-17-2009 |
20100033547 | PRINTER AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A printer includes: a print medium feeding means for feeding a print medium which is a double-sided printable continuous form paper; a first print head that performs printing on one side surface of the print medium; a second print head that performs printing on the other side surface of the print medium; abnormality detection sensors that are attached respectively to the first and second print heads and perform abnormality check for the first and second print heads; and a controller that performs control such that in the case where any abnormality is detected in one of the first and second print heads by one of the abnormality detection sensors, print data to be printed using one print head in which the abnormality has been detected is printed using the other print head which is normally operating. | 02-11-2010 |
20100053295 | THERMAL HEAD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - In a thermal head | 03-04-2010 |
20100053296 | THERMAL HEAD AND THERMAL PRINTER - The present invention has an object to reduce a thickness of a protecting film having a small thermal conductivity. A thermal head includes: a plurality of heat generating resistors formed via an insulating layer; a driver circuit unit for driving the plurality of heat generating resistors to generate a heat; a wiring for connecting the driver circuit unit to the plurality of heat generating resistors; a protecting film formed to cover the plurality of heat generating resistors, the driver circuit unit and the wiring, wherein the plurality of heat generating resistors, the driver circuit unit, the wiring | 03-04-2010 |
20100118106 | DOUBLE-SIDE PRINTER SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - The embodiments of the present invention relate to a double-side printer system in which two thermal heads printing print data on a front face and a back face of a thermal recording paper in which thermo-sensitive layers are formed on both sides are provided, and when these thermal heads are driven in accordance with the print data, temperatures of these thermal heads are sensed in order to vary print densities of the data to be printed, and ON/OFF times for electrical connections are controlled with respect to heater elements of the respective thermal heads, and to a control method thereof. | 05-13-2010 |
20100134584 | THERMAL PRINTER AND DRIVE CONTROL METHOD OF THERMAL HEAD - A thermal printer includes a first thermal head which is so provided as to be brought into contact with one side of a paper, a second thermal head which is so provided as to be brought into contact with the other side of the paper, and a controller. The first thermal head energizes a plurality of heater elements to print dot image data on one side of the paper. The second thermal head energizes a plurality of heater elements to print dot image data on the other side of the paper. The controller is configured to shift the energization times between the first thermal head and second thermal head. | 06-03-2010 |
20100182390 | PRINTER AND CONTROL METHOD FOR A PRINTER - A printer and a control method for a printer can externally detect the number of elements in the line head, and can determine the dot density of the line head from the detected number of elements. The printer has a thermal head | 07-22-2010 |
20100271454 | Recording Head and Recording Apparatus Provided Therewith - A thermal head includes heat generating parts and a conductive layer having connecting parts electrically connected to ends of the heat generating parts. The conductive layer has wiring parts whose cross-sectional areas are smaller than cross-sectional areas of the respective connecting parts in directions. The wiring parts has a first upper layer and a second upper layer which have smaller widths in arrow directions than widths of the respective connecting parts, as well as a first lower layer and a second lower layer which have lengths not shorter than the widths of the respective connecting parts and greater than the widths of the respective upper layers. The respective upper layers and the respective lower layers are arranged to overlap each other. | 10-28-2010 |
20100283824 | THERMAL PRINTHEAD - A thermal printhead includes a substrate, a plurality of heat portions formed on the substrate and arranged in a primary scanning direction, a driver IC provided on the substrate to selectively heat the heat portions, and a cover covering at least part of the driver IC. The cover includes a pair of pinching portions spaced from each other in the primary scanning direction and pinching an end of the substrate in a secondary scanning direction. | 11-11-2010 |
20100302338 | Thermal Printer - A thermal printer for printing by applying heat energy to a recording medium uses a single logic circuit arrangement to enable operating in a plurality of print modes, and enables easily changing the control logic of each print mode to afford high quality printing. Heating elements apply heat energy to the recording medium. A heating element drive circuit is provided for each heating element to drive a particular heating element. A printing control unit | 12-02-2010 |
20100321459 | THERMAL HEAD UNIT AND THERMAL PRINTER WITH DRIVER IC ON FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE - A thermal head unit includes a head substrate having a heating element serving as a thermal head formed thereon, a flexible substrate, a driver IC disposed on the flexible substrate to drive the thermal head, and a heat sink attached to the head substrate and to the flexible substrate, wherein the driver IC and the flexible substrate are electrically connected to each other, and the driver IC and the head substrate are electrically connected to each other. | 12-23-2010 |
20110050829 | PRINT HEAD PULSING TECHNIQUES FOR MULTICOLOR PRINTERS - In one aspect of the invention there is disclosed a multicolor thermal imaging system wherein different heating elements on a thermal print head can print on different color-forming layers of a multicolor thermal imaging member in a single pass. The line-printing time is divided into segments, each of which is divided into a plurality of subintervals. All of the pulses within the segments have the same energy. In one embodiment, every pulse has the same amplitude and duration. Different colors are selected for printing during the different segments by varying the fraction of subintervals that contain pulses. This technique allows multiple colors to be printed using a thermal print head with a single strobe signal line. Pulsing patterns may be chosen to reduce the coincidence of pulses provided to multiple print head elements, thereby reducing the peak power requirements of the print head. | 03-03-2011 |
20110050830 | PRINT HEAD PULSING TECHNIQUES FOR MULTICOLOR PRINTERS - In one aspect of the invention there is disclosed a multicolor thermal imaging system wherein different heating elements on a thermal print head can print on different color-forming layers of a multicolor thermal imaging member in a single pass. The line-printing time is divided into portions, each of which is divided into a plurality of subintervals. All of the pulses within the portions have the same energy. In one embodiment, every pulse has the same amplitude and duration. Different colors are selected for printing during the different portions by varying the fraction of subintervals that contain pulses. This technique allows multiple colors to be printed using a thermal print head with a single strobe signal line. Pulsing patterns may be chosen to reduce the coincidence of pulses provided to multiple print head elements, thereby reducing the peak power requirements of the print head. | 03-03-2011 |
20110102534 | PRINT HEAD FOR A THERMAL PRINTER, METHOD FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF, AND THERMAL PRINTER INCORPORATING SAME - The invention is a print head for a thermal printer having a print region, a plurality of heating elements arranged in the print region, and actuating electronics by which the heating elements can be actuated. One or more additional heating elements are arranged outside the print region, wherein at least one of the additional heating elements has a property, that differs from a normal property, of the heating elements arranged in the print region. There is included a method for production of the print head. The device electronics further comprises a testing circuit for verification of the print head, in which the print head has one or more additional heating elements whose properties differ in regard to at least one normal property of the heating elements and the testing circuit for verification of the print head is designed to check this property at least on some of the heating elements. | 05-05-2011 |
20110216148 | THERMAL PRINTER AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - Embodiments described herein are to a printer which includes a first head configured to print a first data set on a first side of a paper being conveyed along a paper path, and a second head configured to print a second data set on a second side of the paper being conveyed along the paper path. The printer further includes a sensor provided at an upstream side of the first and second heads in the paper feeding direction along the paper path and configured to detect an end portion of the paper being conveyed along the paper path. The printer further includes a control unit, when the end portion of the paper is detected by the sensor, configured to allow the first and second heads to continue a printing operation until the first and second data sets are printed on the remaining portion of the paper. | 09-08-2011 |
20110242256 | PRINTING APPARATUS - In a printing apparatus, each application period is set as fixed period of time ranging from main heating start point to next main heating start point to form successive printed dots on a printing medium in sub-scanning direction of thermal head. A control unit executes application of sub pulse for auxiliary heating which, when applied independently, cannot realize color development on the printing medium, but, when applied for compensating main heating by main pulse as applied in next application period can realize color development thereon, relating to each of heater elements under constraint such that sub pulse is applied within current application period wherein color development cannot be realized on the printing medium, irrespective of whether next application period wherein main pulse for main heating is applied to realize color development on the printing medium starts immediately after current application period wherein color development is not realized. | 10-06-2011 |
20110261134 | THERMAL HEAD - A thermal head includes an insulating head substrate, one or a plurality of driver ICs, a plurality of heat generating elements that is arranged on the head substrate in a main scanning direction, a plurality of individual electrodes that is provided on the head substrate at one ends of the respective heat generating elements and connects the respective heat generating elements to the driver ICs, and a common electrode that is provided on the head substrate at the other ends of the respective heat generating elements so as to be common to the heat generating elements. Capacitance adjustment portions, which adjust capacitance difference between the respective individual electrodes so that the capacitance difference is reduced, are formed at a wiring pattern of the individual electrodes. | 10-27-2011 |
20110292154 | ELEMENT SUBSTRATE, PRINTHEAD, AND HEAD CARTRIDGE - This invention provides an element substrate having a heater selection circuit normally operable even in the use of voltage conversion circuits, which are arranged along the nozzle arrayed direction, each having a small-area in order to reduce the area of the element substrate. The element substrate according to this invention includes a heater selection circuit, which receives a signal output from a voltage conversion circuit, a block selection signal, and a print data signal, and generates and outputs a signal for performing switching by a switching element. | 12-01-2011 |
20110310210 | DEVICE AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING SAME - A device includes a first element substrate and a second element substrate for driving a driving element; a first signal input unit connected to an input terminal of the first element substrate; a second signal input unit connected to an input terminal of the second element substrate; and a signal output unit. Each of the first and second element substrates includes a driving element, a first signal generation unit configured to output a first signal, a second signal generation unit configured to output a second signal, an input terminal, an output terminal, and a selection unit configured to receive a signal from the first and the second signal generation units, select one of a state of the first signal, a state of the second signal, and a high-impedance state on the basis of the selection signal input from the input terminal, and output the state to the output terminal. | 12-22-2011 |
20120007935 | PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus includes a pulse motor which operates to carry a recording medium, a thermal head to print on the recording medium, a pulse motor control unit which controls the pulse motor so that the pulse motor is operated at a carrying velocity based on a print ratio of input print data, a head control unit which controls the thermal head in a first or second head control mode, a head detection unit which detects the type of thermal head attached in the printing apparatus and a judgment unit which judges on the basis of the type of head detected by the head detection unit whether to control the thermal head by the first head control mode or the second head control mode. | 01-12-2012 |
20120013697 | APPARATUS FOR IMAGE FORMATION - To provide a thermal recording medium, which can realize easy maintenance, does not produce wastes such as cartridges, and can realize easy control of recording sheets, and an apparatus and method for image formation. [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] A high-temperature color development capsule ( | 01-19-2012 |
20120075401 | PRINT HEAD PULSING TECHNIQUES FOR MULTICOLOR PRINTERS - In one aspect of the invention there is disclosed a multicolor thermal imaging system wherein different heating elements on a thermal print head can print on different color-forming layers of a multicolor thermal imaging member in a single pass. The line-printing time is divided into segments, each of which is divided into a plurality of subintervals. All of the pulses within the segments have the same energy. In one embodiment, every pulse has the same amplitude and duration. Different colors are selected for printing during the different segments by varying the fraction of subintervals that contain pulses. This technique allows multiple colors to be printed using a thermal print head with a single strobe signal line. Pulsing patterns may be chosen to reduce the coincidence of pulses provided to multiple print head elements, thereby reducing the peak power requirements of the print head. | 03-29-2012 |
20120098916 | Printing apparatus - In order to shorten an overall printing time without shortening a life of a heating resistance element of a thermal head, provided is a printing apparatus, including: a printing unit for performing printing by pressing a thermal head onto heat sensitive paper to heat the heat sensitive paper; a battery for supplying a voltage to the thermal head; a battery voltage detecting unit for detecting the voltage; and a printing control unit for changing, according to the detected voltage, a power-off time in which power supply from the battery to the thermal head is stopped. | 04-26-2012 |
20120133725 | TAPE DRIVE AND PRINTING APPARATUS - A tape drive for use in for example a transfer printing apparatus to drive a printer ribbon. The printer ribbon is mounted on two spools each of which is driven by a respective stepper motor. A controller controls the energization of the motor such that the ribbon is transported in at least one direction between spools mounted on the spool support. The controller is operative to energize both motors to drive the spools of ribbon in the direction of ribbon transport to achieve push-pull operations. Ribbon tension is monitored to enable accurate control of ribbon supply and ribbon take-up, the ribbon tension being monitored, for example, by monitoring power supply to the two stepper motors. | 05-31-2012 |
20120176458 | APPARATUS INCLUDING UNIT CONTROLLING A THERMAL HEAD | 07-12-2012 |
20120176459 | PRINT HEAD PULSING TECHNIQUES FOR MULTICOLOR PRINTERS - In one aspect of the invention there is disclosed a multicolor thermal imaging system wherein different heating elements on a thermal print head can print on different color-forming layers of a multicolor thermal imaging member in a single pass. The line-printing time is divided into portions, each of which is divided into a plurality of subintervals. All of the pulses within the portions have the same energy. In one embodiment, every pulse has the same amplitude and duration. Different colors are selected for printing during the different portions by varying the fraction of subintervals that contain pulses. This technique allows multiple colors to be printed using a thermal print head with a single strobe signal line. Pulsing patterns may be chosen to reduce the coincidence of pulses provided to multiple print head elements, thereby reducing the peak power requirements of the print head. | 07-12-2012 |
20120281053 | Printer, Printer Feed Drive Method, and Computer Program Therefor - Provided herein is a printer, including a printing head that executes printing in units of columns of dots; a feed roller that feeds a print medium in synchrony with driving of the printing head; a motor that constitutes a drive source for the feed roller; a memory section that memorizes a predicted idling amount, which is the amount of idling predicted to occur when motor drive starts; and a drive control section that controls driving of the printing head and the motor, wherein when printing operation is halted and restarted, the drive control section drives the motor by a first idling amount that is smaller than the predicted idling amount, implements printing based on data for a first dot column to be printed at printing restart, further drives the motor by a subtraction amount that equals the predicted idling amount minus the first idling amount, and then starts printing from first dot column data. | 11-08-2012 |
20130002786 | THERMAL TRANSFER PRINTING METHOD AND APPARATUS - Thermal transfer printing method and apparatus are provided to make initial character image data left on a spent ink ribbon illegible. In the method, after forming an initial character image on an ink layer in black of the ink ribbon, a forefront of the ink layer is aligned with a forefront position of an intermediate transfer film. Then, overwrite character image data is applied on a thermal head to produce a first superimpose character image on the ribbon and a first superimpose character image on the film. After that, the forefront position of the ink layer is shifted from the forefront position of the film by a predetermined distance and the overwrite character image data is applied on the thermal head to produce a second superimpose character image on the ribbon and a second superimpose character image on the film. | 01-03-2013 |
20130033554 | PRINT STATION SYSTEM - A print station system having a chassis for housing a modular print station; a power source in communication with the print station; a controller circuit card assembly in communication with the print station; a display panel in communication with the print station; a media rewind hub; a pair of adjustable media guides connected about a base of the print station; and at least one sensor affixed to the print station base and being operable for detecting the presence and position of media passing through a media feed path of the print station system. | 02-07-2013 |
20130033555 | PRINTER - A printer includes a thermal head including a line head in which heating elements are arranged in a straight line, a feed device being configured to feed a printing medium in a vertical scanning direction, and a control device being configured to control the feed device and the thermal head, the printer performing printing by forming a print dot by heating on the printing medium. Each iteration of the pulse application cycle is a time period from a main heating starting time to a next main heating starting time. The control device, in a case where the main heating is not performed on a second heating element adjacent in a main scanning direction to a first heating element, is configured to perform printing by using a first mode, in which applying of a first sub-pulse to the second heating element is performed starting from the main heating starting time. | 02-07-2013 |
20130057636 | PRINTER AND PRINTING CONTROL METHOD THEROF - A printer comprises a multiple printing units, a power supply configured to provide power to the multiple printing units and a printing control unit configured to execute printing in the speed of being that at least one printing unit slower than the fastest printing speed thereof, when the multiple printing units executes printing simultaneously. | 03-07-2013 |
20130147893 | Thermal Printer - A printing control unit for a thermal printer that prints by applying heat energy to a recording medium and is able to operate in multiple print modes, includes a line buffer unit, a shift register unit, and a configuration registration unit. The line buffer unit accumulates current dot printing data supplied from a host. The shift register unit gets and passes the current dot printing data and previous dot history data from the line buffer unit to a logic circuit unit. The configuration registration unit stores configuration data for setting data logic of the logic circuit unit. | 06-13-2013 |
20130155165 | DEVICE AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING SAME - A device includes a first element substrate and a second element substrate for driving a driving element; a first signal input unit connected to an input terminal of the first element substrate; a second signal input unit connected to an input terminal of the second element substrate; and a signal output unit. Each of the first and second element substrates includes a driving element, a first signal generation unit configured to output a first signal, a second signal generation unit configured to output a second signal, an input terminal, an output terminal, and a selection unit configured to receive a signal from the first and the second signal generation units, select one of a state of the first signal, a state of the second signal, and a high-impedance state on the basis of the selection signal input from the input terminal, and output the state to the output terminal. | 06-20-2013 |
20130182059 | THERMAL TRANSFER PRINTER - A thermal transfer printer is capable of printing a plurality of images from one picture block of an ink sheet. The thermal transfer printer includes a damage prediction part that makes prediction of damage on a subsequent print image to be generated by printing of a preceding image by predicting damage on the ink sheet to be generated by printing of the preceding image, and a print control part that prints the preceding image while exerting control to suppress generation of the predicted damage on the subsequent print image based on the damage prediction. | 07-18-2013 |
20130335501 | LASER DRAWING CONTROL APPARATUS, LASER DRAWING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING LASER DRAWING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - Disclosed is a laser drawing control apparatus for thawing an image on an object by a laser light, including an end point shifting unit ( | 12-19-2013 |
20140002567 | PRINTER | 01-02-2014 |
20140028774 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED DETECTION OF SIGNALING IN A PRINT HEAD - The present invention is and includes an apparatus, system and method for providing an automated detection of thermal history control signal scheme and an automated switching circuit to select a converter circuit that changes one type of thermal history control signals from a thermal printer to another type for receipt by the driver ICs on a thermal printhead. | 01-30-2014 |
20140132696 | THERMAL HEAD AND THERMAL PRINTER PROVIDED WITH SAME - A thermal head and a thermal printer are disclosed. The head includes a substrate, heat generating members, an edge portion, and first and second reinforcing members. The substrate includes: first and second surfaces opposing to each other; and an end face connecting the first and second surfaces. The heat generating members are parallel to the end face and located on the substrate. The edge portion is located on the substrate, crosses an array direction of the heating generating members, and includes first, second and third edge portions on the first main surface, the second main surface and the first end face, respectively. The first reinforcing member is located on the first, second and third edge portions. The second reinforcing member is located on the first edge portion, and separated from the first reinforcing member. | 05-15-2014 |
20140184718 | Printing Apparatus and Method of Printing - A method of printing including testing the status of a printhead ( | 07-03-2014 |
20140210931 | PRINTING RIBBON AND METHOD FOR A RIBBON PRINTING SYSTEM - A printing system includes a controller and a ribbon reading device. The controller is configured to control operations of the printing system according to operational parameters. The operational parameters used to control printing of ink from a thermal print ribbon onto one or more target objects by a thermal print head. The ribbon reading device is configured to examine the thermal print ribbon as the thermal print ribbon moves in the printing system. The ribbon reading device examines the thermal print ribbon to determine if the thermal print ribbon is associated with a set of designated operational parameters for the printing system. The controller is configured to use the set of designated operational parameters to control the operations of the printing system when the thermal print ribbon is associated with the set of designated operational parameters. | 07-31-2014 |
20140210932 | THERMAL PRINT SYSTEM CAPABLE OF STORING INFORMATION - A thermal print system includes a case, a thermal print device, an information storage device, an information transmission device and a control device. The thermal print device is detachably installed inside the case and is for performing thermal printing. The information storage device is installed inside the case and is for storing parameter information of the thermal print device. The information transmission device is installed inside the case and is for fetching the parameter information stored in the information storage device. The control device is installed inside the case and is electrically connected to the information transmission device. The control device controls the thermal print device to perform the corresponding thermal printing according to the parameter information transmitted from the information transmission device. | 07-31-2014 |
20140240436 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED DETECTION OF SIGNALING IN A PRINT HEAD - The present invention is and includes an apparatus, system and method for providing an automated detection of thermal history control signal scheme and an automated switching circuit to select a converter circuit that changes one type of thermal history control signals from a thermal printer to another type for receipt by the driver ICs on a thermal printhead. | 08-28-2014 |
20140267533 | INKLESS PRINTER - An inkless printing device that comprises a plurality of lasers, a rotating polygonal mirror, and an energy recycling unit. The mirror rotates and reflects a laser beam in a manner that allows the beams to reach any point on the paper. The laser turns ON and OFF while the mirrors are rotating to form a printout. Printing on a sheet of paper is achieved by burning to a certain pre-determined depth of the paper, by using the thermal properties of a laser. The energy recycling unit converts the heat energy generated during the printing process to electrical energy and charges a battery cell. Upon the battery cells being charged to a pre-determined power threshold, the power supply to the printer is changed from the AC supply to the battery supply. | 09-18-2014 |
20140285608 | PRINTING APPARATUS - To provide a printing apparatus for enabling printing speed to be increased, while enabling the unevenness of concentration to be reduced, a printing apparatus is provided with a thermal head having a plurality of heater elements lined up in the main scanning direction and a CPU for switching current passage timing of the plurality of heater elements, and the CPU switches the current passage timing for the plurality of heater elements so that a second strobe signal STB | 09-25-2014 |
20140292990 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A PRINT HEAD - The present invention is and includes a conversion circuit for allowing a printer controller to send a different set of control signals for dot history control to an integrated circuit driver other than those which the integrated circuit driver is designed to receive. The conversion circuit includes a plurality of driver circuits coupled to a plurality of strobe signals from at least one strobe signal generator, wherein each of the plurality of driver circuits comprises a plurality of gating groups respectively coupled to the plurality of strobe signals, wherein each of the plurality of gating groups includes a plurality of gate units respectively coupled to a plurality of heating elements wherein at least one gate unit controls at least one coupled heating element according to a corresponding strobe signal. | 10-02-2014 |
20140354751 | Printer, Printing Control Program, and Printing Method - The disclosure discloses a printer comprises a print object receiving portion, a first, a second, and a third increment mode receiving portion, a first and a second image generating portion. The print object receiving portion receives an input operation of the print object comprising a print identifier. The first increment mode receiving portion receives a setup operation of the print identifier, an increment interval, and an increment execution count. The first image generating portion generates first printed matter images using a plurality of different types of increment patterns. The second increment mode receiving portion receives a selection operation of the plurality of types of increment patterns. The second image generating portion generates second printed matter images using a plurality of different types of assignment patterns. The third increment mode receiving portion receives a selection operation of any one of the plurality of types of assignment patterns. | 12-04-2014 |
20150009271 | System and Method of Thermal Printing Security Features - The present invention relates to thermal printers and, more particularly, to direct thermal printers structured, configured, and/or programmed to print security features such as pantographs, watermarks, and microprinting on a thermal media substrate. | 01-08-2015 |
20150138298 | FINE WIRING PATTERN, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND THERMAL PRINT HEAD - According to the present disclosure, a manufacturing method of a fine wiring pattern is disclosed. The manufacturing method includes preparing a support member, forming a first layer on the support member by thick-film printing, and forming a second layer including Ag on the first layer by the thick-film printing. The method also includes forming a predetermined fine wiring pattern by performing an etching process upon the first layer and the second layer. | 05-21-2015 |
20150298464 | THERMAL HEAD AND THERMAL PRINTER EQUIPPED WITH THE THERMAL HEAD - A thermal head capable of decreasing the possibility of causing a blur in an image printed on a recording medium is provided. A thermal head includes: a substrate; a plurality of heat generating portions disposed aligned on the substrate; an electrode disposed on the substrate so as to be electrically connected to the heat generating portions; a driving IC electrically connected to the electrode; and a covering member which covers the driving IC and makes contact with a recording medium which is being conveyed. The covering member includes: a first protrusion extending in a direction away from the substrate; and a second protrusion which is spaced from the first protrusion, is located between the first protrusion and the heat generating portions, and extends in a direction away from the substrate. | 10-22-2015 |
20150352858 | THERMAL HEAD AND THERMAL PRINTER EQUIPPED WITH THE THERMAL HEAD - A thermal head capable of decreasing the possibility of causing wrinkles in a recording medium is provided. A thermal head includes: a substrate; a heat generating portion disposed on the substrate; a driving IC disposed on the substrate and controlling actuation of the heat generating portion; a covering member covering the driving IC; and a projection portion disposed on the substrate and making contact with a recording medium. The substrate includes a first region and a second region in a plan view, the first region being defined by extending an area where the driving IC is disposed in a sub scanning direction and the second region being an area other than the first region. The projection portion is disposed on the second region closer to the heat generating portion than the area where the driving IC is disposed. | 12-10-2015 |
20160016415 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A PRINT HEAD - The present invention is and includes a conversion circuit for allowing a printer controller to send a different set of control signals for dot history control to an integrated circuit driver other than those which the integrated circuit driver is designed to receive. The conversion circuit includes a plurality of driver circuits coupled to a plurality of strobe signals from at least one strobe signal generator, wherein each of the plurality of driver circuits comprises a plurality of gating groups respectively coupled to the plurality of strobe signals, wherein each of the plurality of gating groups includes a plurality of gate units respectively coupled to a plurality of heating elements wherein at least one gate unit controls at least one coupled heating element according to a corresponding strobe signal. | 01-21-2016 |
20160016416 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING RECEIVER TYPE IN A THERMAL PRINTER - The present invention is directed to systems and methods of directly determining the type of receiver media loaded in a thermal printer by measurements taken from the receiver media itself. In one embodiment, a tri-color emitter and detector combination work in conjunction to determine the intensity of light transmitted through the receiver media. The type of receiver media may be determined by the voltage response or transmission profile generated by the receiver in response to being illuminated by the tri-color emitter. | 01-21-2016 |
20160070211 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - Damage caused to a transfer medium due to heat when partially using transfer material regions is suppressed. An image forming apparatus ( | 03-10-2016 |
20160075147 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRINTHEAD CONTROL - A method, apparatus, and computer program product are described herein for controlling a printing device. In an example embodiment, a print line is divided into frames and frame dot states are determined based on neighboring frame dot states. Maximum motor speeds of the printing device may be adjusted so that actual motor speeds change gradually during printing. The print engine may detect a printhead type by sending a signal to the printhead and receiving a response. | 03-17-2016 |
20160114593 | PRINTING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM THEREFOR - A printing apparatus that is capable of obtaining density more than density that is obtained by repeating the same printing process a plurality of times without affecting resolution and tone expression. A printing unit prints an image by transferring ink to a printing sheet with a thermal head according to print data of a multiple value. A control unit controls the printing unit so as to change a maximum exothermic frequency in one dot according to a transfer frequency at the time of transferring ink of a same color a plurality of times to overlap, when an image is printed based on the print data by transferring ink of the same color the plurality of times to overlap. | 04-28-2016 |
20160159103 | PRINTING - A method for controlling a thermal printhead of a printer. The printhead comprises an array of printing elements. The method may comprise performing a plurality of printing operations, each printing operation comprising energisation of one or more printing elements. A respective energisation value is determined for each printing element based upon energisations of that printing element during said printing operations. A printhead control signal is generated for the printhead for a subsequent printing operation based upon the energisation values of a predetermined subset of the printing elements. | 06-09-2016 |
20160159104 | THERMAL PRINT HEAD USAGE MONITOR AND METHOD FOR USING THE MONITOR - An example disclosed print head includes memory to store data associated with the print head; and a controller to encrypt a communication including the data stored in the memory, wherein the communication is to be transmitted from the print head to a device. | 06-09-2016 |
20160159105 | THERMAL PRINTER - An apparatus for determining the resistance of a printing element of a print head, the apparatus comprising: a print head comprising a plurality of individually controllable printing elements connected in parallel, and a capacitor connected in parallel with the printing elements; a test voltage supply arranged to supply a test voltage to the print head; a current monitor arranged to measure the current supplied to one of the printing elements when the said one of the printing elements is connected to the test voltage supply; and a controller arranged to determine the resistance of the said one of the printing elements based upon the measured current. | 06-09-2016 |
20160188923 | Quick Release Covers - A high speed tabletop and industrial printer is disclosed with integrated high speed RFID encoding and verification at the same time. The industrial printer simultaneously prints on and electronically encodes/verifies RFID labels, tags, and/or stickers attached to a continuous web. The industrial printer comprises a lighted sensor array for indexing the printing to the RFID tags; and a cutter powered from the industrial printer for cutting the web that the RFID tags are disposed on. The industrial printer comprises two RFID reader/writers that are individually controlled. Specifically, one of the RFID reader/writers comprises the ability to electronically encode the RFID tags while the web is moving; and the second RFID reader/writer uses an additional RFID module and antenna on the printer for verifying the data encoded to the RFID tags. Further, the printer also comprises a quick release cover with thumbscrews that allow for easy removal. | 06-30-2016 |
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