Inked sheet cassette and thermal transfer-type recording apparatus

An inked sheet cassette according to calim 1, wherein said cassette case has a plurality of characteristics indicator projections indicative of coded information concerning characteristics of said inked sheet in said cassette.

An inked sheet cassette comprising a cassette case encasing an inked sheet constituted by a thin web-like film or paper sheet with at least one type of ink applied thereto, and a pair of reels disposed in said cassette case and including a supply reel and a take-up reel on which are wound the respective end sides of said inked sheet, a window being provided at least in one of a portion of said cassette xase adjacent to said supply reel and a portion adjacent to said take-up reel so as to enable the user to visually check the diameter of a roll of said inked sheet on said reel adjacent to said window, said cassette case having characteristics indicator holes indicative of coded information concerning the characteristics of said inked sheet in said cassette, wherein said characteristics indicator holes comprise a plurality of hole portions formed in said cassette case and a seal member provided to selectively cover said hole portions.

A thermal transfer-type recording apparatus in which an inked sheet held by a supply reel and a take-up reel in an ink sheet cassette case and a specific print paper are superposed and selectively heated by a thermal head so that the ink on said inked sheet is selectively transferred to said print paper thereby to record information on said print paper, wherein said cassette case has a window at least in one of a portion of said cassette case adjacent to said supply reel and a portion of said cassette case adjacent to said take-up reel so as to enable the user to visually check the diameter of a roll of said inked sheet on said reel adjacent to said window, said window comprising an opening extended over a region of said cassette case opposite to an end face and a side face of one of said supply and take-up reels.

A thermal transfer-type recording apparatus in which an inked sheet held by a supply reel and a take-up reel in an ink sheet cassette and a specific print paper are superposed and selectively heated by a thermal head so that the ink on said inked sheet is selectively transfereed to said print paper thereby to record information on said print paper, wherein said cassette case has a window at least in one of a portion adjacent to said supply reel and a portion adjacent to said take-up reel so as to enable the user to visually check the diameter of a roll of said inked sheet on said reel adjacent to said window, said cassette case having characteristics indicator holes indicative of coded information concerning the characteristics of said inked sheet in said cassette, and said apparatus further comprises reading means capable of reading the information represented by said characteristics indicator holes to control the printing operation in accordance with the read information, wherein said characteristics indicator holes comprise a plurality of hole portions formed in said cassette case and a seal member provided to selectively cover said hole portions.

A thermal transfer-type recording apparatus in which an inked sheet held by a supply reel and a take-up reel in an ink sheet cassette case and a specific print paper are superposed and selectively heated by a thermal head so that the ink on said inked sheet is selectively transferred to said print paper thereby to record information on said print paper, wherein said cassette case includes a window at least in one of a portion adjacent to said supply reel and a portion adjacent to said take-up reel so as to enable the user to visually check the diameter of a roll of said inked sheet on said reel adjacent to said window, and wherein said print paper is provided on the reverse side thereof with indexing marks for indexing and locating said print paper, while said apparatus is provided with reading means capable of reading said indexing marks on both sides of the heat-generating means of said thermal head in the vicinity thereof so as to face the reverse side of said print paper, said apparatus further comprising control means for recognizing the position of said print paper from the output of said indexing mark reading means so as to enable the apparatus to commence the printing operation from the correct position on said print paper.