Thermal printer and protection coat print method
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYasushi Hozumi
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Abstract
A thermal printer comprises a print unit which prints an image and forms a protection coat layer on a printed image, a designation unit which designates a glossy print mode or a matte print mode, and a control unit which controls the print unit, when the designation unit designates the glossy print mode, the control unit controls the print unit to execute printing of the protection coat layer without performing any preheating process, and when the designation unit designates the matte print mode, the control unit controls the print unit to perform the preheating process, and to then execute printing of the protection coat layer.
Claims8
A thermal printer for printing an image by transferring an ink onto a printing medium, comprising:
- a print unit configured to print an image by transferring the ink onto the printing medium, and to form a protection coat layer on the printed image;
- a designation unit configured to designate a glossy print mode or a matte print mode as a print mode required to form the protection coat layer;
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- a control unit configured to control said print unit according to the print mode designated by said designation unit,
- wherein when said designation unit designates the glossy print mode, said control unit controls said print unit to execute printing of the protection coat layer without performing any preheating process, and when said designation unit designates the matte print mode, said control unit controls said print unit to perform the preheating process, and to then execute printing of the protection coat layer.
A protection coat print method in a thermal printer, which forms an image by transferring an ink onto a printing medium, and forms a protection coat layer on the printed image, comprising:
- a designation step of designating a glossy print mode or a matte print mode as a print mode required to form the protection coat layer;
- and
- a control step of controlling a thermal head according to the print mode designated in the designation step,
- wherein in the control step, when the glossy print mode is designated in the designation step, the thermal head is controlled to execute printing of the protection coat layer without performing any preheating process, and when the matte print mode is designated in the designation step, the thermal head is controlled to perform the preheating process, and to then execute printing of the protection coat layer.
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