Device for reading the printing done by a transfer thermal printer
AssigneeAxiohm
InventorBernard Patry
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Abstract
A recording device for recording impressions made by a transfer thermal printer, the device comprising a transfer film paid out from a roll and taken up by a drum, the roll and the drum being disposed inside a cassette having a side wall including a setback defining a print zone, wherein the cassette includes a read window other than the print zone, guides designed to impose a path on the transfer film such that the transfer film passes the window between the roll and the drum, and a support for a contrast surface.
Claims5
In a device for reading impressions made by a transfer thermal printer having a print head, wherein the device has a transfer film paid out from a roll and taken up by a drum, the transfer film having a face for contacting the print head of the transfer thermal printer, the roll and the drum being disposed inside a cassette having a side wall including a setback defining a print zone, the improvement wherein the cassette has a read window other than the print zone, and guides for imposing a path on the transfer film such that the transfer film travels from the print zone to the read window between the roll and the drum.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.