Adhesive label production device
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorYoshimitsu Koike
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Abstract
An adhesive label production device has an ejection mechanism that is easy to maintain. A printer 100 used as an adhesive label production device has a conveyance mechanism 8 that conveys continuous recording paper (recording medium) P; a recording head 5 that prints on the recording paper P conveyed by the conveyance mechanism 8; an automatic cutter 4 that cuts the recording paper P; and an inkjet head (ejection mechanism) 15 that ejects adhesive 18 onto the recording paper P that was cut by the automatic cutter 4. The inkjet head 15 has a plurality of nozzles (ejection holes), and ejection by each of the nozzles can be individually controlled.
Claims7
An adhesive label production device comprising:
- a conveyance mechanism that conveys a continuous recording medium;
- a recording head that prints text on the continuous recording medium conveyed by the conveyance mechanism;
- and
- an ejection mechanism that ejects adhesive onto the continuous recording medium after printing by the recording head,
- the ejection mechanism including a plurality of ejection holes and able to individually control ejection from each of the ejection holes,
- wherein:
- the ejection mechanism is an inkjet type ejection mechanism, and
- wherein the inkjet type ejection mechanism comprises a plurality of nozzles for ejecting droplets of adhesive, and the inkjet type ejection mechanism is configured to apply the droplets of adhesive to the continuous recording medium by selection of which of the nozzles eject the droplets of adhesive and selection of an ejection timing of said droplets from the nozzles to deposit the droplets of adhesive in a predetermined pattern.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.