Method of managing thermal printer and thermal printer for performing the same
AssigneeBixolon Co., Ltd.
InventorsJunho Hwang, Jin Kook Kim, Chan Wook Kang, Seung Yong Kim
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is a method of managing a printing apparatus including a thermal print head. The method of managing a printing apparatus includes: starting, by the controller of a printing apparatus, the cleaning of a thermal print head when a predetermined condition is satisfied; selecting, by the controller, a cleaning method based on at least one the satisfied condition and previously stored information; and cleaning, by the controller, the thermal print head by driving at least one of heating elements, included in a plurality of recording elements constituting the thermal print head, according to the selected cleaning method.
Claims19
A linerless label printer comprising:
- a print head configured to perform printing;
- a platen roller configured to transfer linerless label paper by rotating in contact with an adhesive surface of the linerless label paper;
- a controller configured to control driving of the platen roller;
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- a cutter spaced apart from the platen roller and configured to cut the linerless label paper at a cutting position;
- wherein when power of the linerless label printer is turned on, the controller is configured to drive the platen roller to perform a hard-lock prevention process for preventing a hard-lock phenomenon in which the adhesive surface of the linerless label paper fixedly adheres to the platen roller, the hard-lock prevention process being performed by performing back feeding and forward feeding on the linerless label paper at least once based on a printing position of the print head or a cutting position of the cutter, or a combination of the printing position of the print head and the cutting position of the cutter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.