Thermal printer
AssigneeFUJIFILM Corporation
InventorMasakazu Fukuyo
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Abstract
A thermal printer includes a thermal head which has heating elements arranged in a main scanning direction, a transport unit for transporting a thermal recording material in a sub scanning direction perpendicular to the main scanning direction and a skewing unit for skewing the thermal recording material so that its ends in the main scanning direction form an angle with respect to the sub scanning direction at a predetermined recording position. The thermal recording material that has been skewed so that its ends form the angle is supplied to the recording position, and the thermal recording on the thermal recording material is performed with the thermal head while the thermal recording material that remains skewed is transported in the sub scanning direction.
Claims9
A thermal printer comprising:
- a thermal head which has heating elements arranged in a main scanning direction;
- transport means for transporting a thermal recording material in a sub scanning direction perpendicular to the main scanning direction;
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- skewing means for skewing said thermal recording material so that its ends in the main scanning direction form an angle with respect to the sub scanning direction at a predetermined recording position,
- wherein said thermal recording material having been skewed by said skewing means so that its ends in the main scanning direction form said angle with respect to the sub scanning direction is supplied to said recording position, where thermal recording on said thermal recording material is performed with said thermal head while said thermal recording material which remains skewed is transported in the sub scanning direction by said transport means.
A thermal printer comprising:
- a thermal head which has heating elements arranged in a main scanning direction,
- wherein thermal recording is performed on a thermal recording material with said thermal head while transporting said thermal recording material in a sub scanning direction perpendicular to the main scanning direction at a predetermined recording position,
- wherein said thermal recording material having been skewed so that its ends in the main scanning direction form an angle with respect to the sub scanning direction at a predetermined recording position is supplied to said recording position, and
- wherein the thermal recording on said thermal recording material is performed with said thermal head while said thermal recording material which remains skewed is transported in the sub scanning direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.