Printer
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorsYoshiki Kikuchi, Takashi Ohmori
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Abstract
A thermosensitive copying machine can selectively use either manually or automatically supplied paper, has a pivotable roller and brake mechanism for minimizing wrinkles in the ink donor sheet, supplies the copy paper and donor sheet over paths which differ except at the recording station, and has a separating guide member for peeling the copied paper away from the donor sheet. The donor sheet transport mechanism is enabled only when necessary for a recording operation.
Claims6
In a thermosensitive image recording device of the type wherein an ink donor sheet having heat sensitive ink on one surface thereof is selectively heated in accordance with picture information at a recording station to melt and transfer selected portions of said ink to a recording paper in contact with said one surface of said ink donor sheet, said recording device comprising:
- a source of recording paper;
- a first transport mechanism for transporting said recording paper from said source through a first path which passes through said recording station;
- a source of ink donor sheet;
- a second transport mechanism for transporting said ink donor sheet from said donor sheet source through a second path which passes through said recording station, said first and second paths being different from one another but coinciding in the same direction of movement at least at said recording station;
- means for detecting said recording paper at a predetermined position in said first path prior to said recording station;
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- control means for operating said first and second transport mechanisms in accordance with said detection.
A thermosensitive image recording device as defined in claim 2, further comprising a stress absorbing roller disposed in said second path and in contact with said donor sheet between said donor sheet source and said recording station, said stress absorbing roller having an axis of rotation which has an inclination variable in a direction perpendicular to said donor sheet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.