Thermal printer system
AssigneeAvery Dennison Retail Information Services LLC
InventorsRabah SHAATH, Subodh BANSODE
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Abstract
In some embodiments, a thermal printer system includes a print control device configured to be operatively connected to a thermal printhead having a thermal element. The print control device may be configured to output a plurality of quantized activation commands that each cause heating of the thermal element for a fixed time slice. In some embodiments, the thermal element once sufficiently heated is configured to create an image in at least a single dot region of a target material when stopped or as it is being moved past the thermal element.
Claims35
A thermal printer system comprising:
- a print control device configured to be operatively connected to a thermal printhead having a thermal element,
- wherein the print control device is configured to output a plurality of quantized activation commands that each cause heating of the thermal element for a fixed time slice, wherein the thermal element once sufficiently heated is configured to create an image in at least a single dot region of a target material when stopped or as it is being moved past the thermal element.
A method for controlling an energy profile of each thermal element in a thermal printhead, the method comprising steps of:
- generating print data signals in the form of pulses for each row of an image input data received;
- determining a time slice for each print data signal;
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- transmitting the control signals generated to the plurality of thermal elements of the printhead to record row after row of the image input data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.