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US 2010/0060706 A1Published application
Thermal printer and method of controlling the same
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKengo Saga
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Abstract
Previously setting the front end of printed thermal paper at a second position before a second thermal head, when a next print job is double-side printing, at a first position before a first thermal head, when a next print job is one-side printing with the first thermal head, and at the second position before the second thermal head, when a next print job is one-side printing with the second thermal head.
Claims17
A thermal printer comprising:
- thermal paper, which has a thermosensitive layer on both sides, and is fed in a predetermined direction;
- a first thermal head, which is provided at a position in the thermal paper feeding direction, and prints one side of the thermal paper;
- a second thermal head, which is provided at a position apart from the first thermal head in the thermal paper feeding direction, and prints the other side of the thermal paper;
- a first control section, which selectively executes both-side printing with both thermal heads, and one-side printing with one of the thermal head;
- a second control section, which previously sets the front end of the thermal paper at a position before the thermal head provided in the upstream in the thermal paper feeding direction, when the first control section executes double-side printing;
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- a third control section, which previously sets the front end of the thermal paper at a position before the thermal head to be used, when the first control section executes one-side printing.
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A thermal printer comprising:
- thermal paper, which has a thermosensitive layer on both sides, and is fed in a predetermined direction;
- a first thermal head, which is provided at a position in the thermal paper feeding direction, and prints one side of the thermal paper;
- a second thermal head, which is provided at a position apart from the first thermal head in the thermal paper feeding direction, and prints the other side of the thermal paper;
- first control means for selectively executing both-side printing with both thermal heads, and one-side printing with one of the thermal head;
- second control means for previously setting the front end of the thermal paper at a position before the thermal head provided in the upstream in the thermal paper feeding direction, when the first control means executes double-side printing;
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- third control means for previously setting the front end of the thermal paper at a position before the thermal head to be used, when the first control means executes one-side printing.
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A method of controlling a thermal printer having:
- thermal paper, which has a thermosensitive layer on both sides, and is fed in a predetermined direction;
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- a first thermal head for printing one side of the thermal paper, and a second thermal head for printing the other side of the thermal paper, which are provided at positions apart from each other along a thermal paper feeding direction,
- the method comprising:
- selectively executing double-side printing with both thermal heads, and one-side printing with one of the thermal heads,
- previously setting the front end of the thermal paper at a position before the thermal head provided in the upstream in the thermal paper feeding direction, at the time of executing the double-side printing, and
- previously setting the front end of the thermal paper at a position before the thermal head to be used, at the time of executing the one-side printing.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.