Label printer
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTsuyoshi Sanada
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Abstract
According to one embodiment, there is provided a label printer in which noise is less likely to be generated when a thermal head comes into contact with a backing sheet between a label and a label. In a label printer that prints, using a thermal head including a linear heating element, on a label sheet in which labels are attached on a strip-shaped backing sheet at a predetermined interval, the thermal head is configured to swing with respect to a platen roller configured to support the label sheet at a printing position, and a guide portion includes an edge portion that is substantially parallel to a surface of the thermal head having the heating element provided thereon and that is inclined with respect to the heating element is integrally provided downstream of the thermal head in a sheet conveying direction.
Claims20
A label printer, comprising:
- a thermal head including a linear heating element that prints on a label sheet in which labels are attached on a strip-shaped backing sheet at a predetermined interval, the thermal head configured to swing with respect to a platen roller configured to support the label sheet at a printing position;
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- a guide including an edge portion substantially parallel to a surface of the thermal head having the linear heating element provided thereon and inclined with respect to the linear heating element integrally provided downstream of the thermal head in a sheet conveying direction, the guide having a surface on a downstream side in the sheet conveying direction inclined with respect to a width direction of the label sheet.
A thermal printer configured to print labels, comprising:
- a platen roller configured to support a label sheet comprising labels on a strip-shaped backing sheet at a printing position;
- a thermal head including a linear heating element that prints on the label sheet, the thermal head configured to swing with respect to the platen roller;
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- a guide including an edge portion substantially parallel to a surface of the thermal head having the linear heating element provided thereon and inclined with respect to the linear heating element integrally provided downstream of the thermal head in a sheet conveying direction, the guide having a surface on a downstream side in the sheet conveying direction inclined with respect to a width direction of the label sheet.
A label printer, comprising:
- a platen roller configured to support a label sheet comprising labels on a strip-shaped backing sheet;
- a thermal head including a linear heating element that prints on the label sheet, the thermal head configured to swing with respect to the platen roller;
- a guide including an edge portion substantially parallel to a surface of the thermal head having the linear heating element provided thereon and inclined with respect to the linear heating element integrally provided downstream of the thermal head in a sheet conveying direction, the guide having a surface on a downstream side in the sheet conveying direction inclined with respect to a width direction of the label sheet;
- a cutter to cut the label sheet after printing;
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- a discharge port through which a printed label is conveyed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.