Method of preventing dust from adhering to ink ribbon of printer and printer
AssigneeFuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
InventorsMITSURU SAWANO, HISAO OOISHI, OSAMU SHIMIZU
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Abstract
The object of the present invention is to provide a thermal printer free of the unevenness of an image which is devised so that dust is prevented from adhering to an ink ribbon. In the thermal printer for generating a color image on recording material by a thermal head and others using an ink ribbon, the ink ribbon is automatically rewound by length within one image plane and kept on standby after printing is finished and at the time of next printing, the ink ribbon is automatically let out by the length formerly rewound and gets ready for printing.
Claims7
A method of preventing dust from adhering to an ink ribbon of a printer in the printer for generating an image on recording material using the ink ribbon, wherein:
- a part to be used for next printing of said ink ribbon is rewound in a direction of a ribbon supply part to prevent dust from adhering to said part of said ink ribbon after setting said ink ribbon and/or every termination of current printing.
A printer for generating an image on recording material using an ink ribbon, comprising means for automatically rewinding the ink ribbon by predetermined length after setting the ink ribbon and/or every termination of current printing is provided.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.