Continuous paper printer with monitoring time period in which the paper feed speed is lower than when printing
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Sato
InventorYuji Yokota
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Abstract
A continuous-paper electrophotographic printer prevents the printed paper from being either scorched or needlessly paid out during periods when printing is halted to enable receipt of a next batch of printing data. This is accomplished by reducing the paper feeding rate between printing periods. Thereby, the printer can rapidly proceed to a next printing operation when inputting of the next data to be printed is completed within a time period that is provided for checking whether the next set of print data is ready.
Claims9
A continuous-paper electrophotographic printer, comprising:
- printing means which is activatable for imprinting selected information on continuous paper;
- continuous-paper feeding means for supplying and transporting continuous paper to the printing means;
- means for supplying to the printing means sets of data to be imprinted;
- control means for interposing a monitoring time period for checking the readiness of each successive set of data to be imprinted;
- and
- said continuous paper feeding means including means for feeding the paper to the printing means at a first comparatively high speed during activation of the printing means and at a second lower speed during the monitoring time period.
A method for imprinting information on continuous-paper in a electrophotographic printer, the method comprising the steps of:
- providing printing means which is activatable for imprinting selected information on continuous paper;
- providing a continuous-paper feeding means and supplying and transporting therewith continuous paper to the printing means;
- supplying to the printing means sets of data to be imprinted;
- interposing a monitoring time period between the imprinting of the continuous paper with successive ones of sets of data to be imprinted and checking the readiness of each successive set of data to be imprinted;
- and
- feeding the paper to the printing means at a first comparatively high speed during activation of the printing means and at a second lower speed during the monitoring time period.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.