Printing apparatus and printing method
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorFutoshi Mori
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Abstract
In accordance with an embodiment, a printing apparatus includes a conveying section configured to move a recording medium fed from a paper roll along a conveyance path, a thermal head configured to thermally transfer ink of an ink ribbon to the recording medium to print, a control section configured to discriminate a print mode for the recording medium and control the printing processing for the recording medium and a feed length counting section configured to count the feed length of the recording medium conveyed from the paper roll to the thermal head in a first direction when the print mode is a preset mode.
Claims5
A printing apparatus, comprising:
- a conveying section configured to move a recording medium fed from a paper roll along a conveyance path;
- a thermal head configured to thermally transfer ink of an ink ribbon to the recording medium to print;
- a control section configured to discriminate a print mode for the recording medium and control the printing processing for the recording medium;
- and
- a feed length counting section configured to count the feed length of the recording medium conveyed from the paper roll to the thermal head in a first direction when the print mode is a preset mode.
A printing method, comprising:
- moving a recording medium fed from a paper roll along a conveyance path;
- thermally transferring ink of an ink ribbon to the recording medium by a thermal head to print;
- discriminating a print mode for the recording medium and controlling a printing processing for the recording medium;
- and
- counting the feed length of the recording medium conveyed from the paper roll to the thermal head in a first direction when the print mode is a preset mode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.