Thermal printer and program
AssigneeSato Holdings Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMichitaka KOJIMA
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Abstract
A thermal printer includes a control unit that performs control to perform: an option operation, whereby upon completion of printing on a label provided on a continuous label body, the printed label is conveyed to a particular position and then conveyance of the continuous label body is stopped; and a retraction operation, whereby when a preset permitted stop time period has elapsed since the stop of conveyance of the continuous label body without performing next printing during the permitted stop time period, an unprinted label retracts to a retraction position where at least a printing region of the unprinted label is not sandwiched between a platen roller and a thermal head. The control unit can change the permitted stop time period for each type and/or each width of a label to be printed.
Claims16
1-6. (canceled)
A thermal printer, comprising:
- a platen roller;
- a thermal head printing on a label provided on a continuous label body;
- and
- a control unit configured to control the platen roller and the thermal head to convey the continuous label body to a particular position upon completion of printing on the label provided on the continuous label body, and to retract the continuous label body from the particular position to a retraction position when a preset permitted stop time period has elapsed since the continuous label body being conveyed to the particular position without performing subsequent printing during the permitted stop time period, wherein the retraction position is a position that at least a printing region of the unprinted label is not sandwiched between the platen roller and the thermal head.
A control method for a thermal printer including a platen roller and a thermal head, the thermal head printing on a label provided on a continuous label body, the control method comprising
- controlling the platen roller and the thermal head to convey the continuous label body to a particular position upon completion of printing on the label provided on the continuous label body, and to retract the continuous label body from the particular position to a retraction position when a preset permitted stop time period has elapsed since the continuous label body being conveyed to the particular position without performing subsequent printing during the permitted stop time period, wherein the retraction position is a position that at least a printing region of the unprinted label is not sandwiched between the platen roller and the thermal head.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing therein a program executable by a computer of a thermal printer,
- the thermal printer including a platen roller and a thermal head, the thermal head printing on a label provided on a continuous label body, and
- the program including a step of causing the computer to control the platen roller and the thermal head to
- convey the continuous label body to a particular position upon completion of printing on the label provided on the continuous label body, and
- retract the continuous label body from the particular position to a retraction position when a preset permitted stop time period has elapsed since the continuous label body being conveyed to the particular position without performing subsequent printing during the permitted stop time period, wherein the retraction position is a position that at least a printing region of the unprinted label is not sandwiched between the platen roller and the thermal head.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.