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US 5,685,222 AGranted
Control device for a thermosensitive stencil printer
AssigneeTohoku Ricoh Co., Ltd.
InventorsYasumitsu Yokoyama, Yoshiyuki Shishido, Satoshi Katoh
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Abstract
A control device for a thermosensitive stencil printer which is capable of perforating a stencil in an optimal configuration matching a desired resolution in the subscanning direction and thereby producing desirable images. The device allows perforations to be formed in a stencil in an adequate size in the subscanning direction. Heating portions included in a thermal head are each sized, in the subscanning direction, smaller than a feed pitch corresponding to the highest resolution available with a resolution setting device.
Claims9
A thermosensitive stencil printer comprising:
- a thermal head for perforating a thermosensitive stencil and having an array of heating portions arranged in a main scanning direction;
- stencil conveying means for conveying the thermosensitive stencil in a sub scanning direction perpendicular to said main scanning direction;
- a control device comprising,
- drive means for driving the stencil conveying means,
- resolution setting means for setting a selected resolution of an ink image in the sub scanning direction and for outputting a resolution signal corresponding to said selected resolution,
- drive control means for controlling, in response to said resolution signal, said drive means so as to drive said drive means at a pitch corresponding to the selected resolution of the ink image, and
- energy control means for controlling, in response to said resolution signal, energy to be applied to the heating portions of said thermal head so as to selectively generate heat in accordance with an image signal indicative of an original image;
- means for pressing said thermal head against said thermosensitive stencil so that said selectively generated heat from said heating portions perforates said stencil in a pattern of perforations matching said image signal and at said selected resolution;
- a print drum around which the stencil with the pattern of perforations is wrapped;
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- ink feeding means for forming said ink image on a sheet by feeding ink to said sheet via said stencil with the pattern of perforations.
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