Bidirectional printing method for a thermal ink transfer printer

Hitoshi Nagato; Tadayoshi Ohno

doi:10.1117/12.46338

1 August 1991 Bidirectional printing method for a thermal ink transfer printer

Hitoshi Nagato, Tadayoshi Ohno

Proceedings Volume 1458, Printing Technologies for Images, Gray Scale, and Color; (1991) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.46338
Event: Electronic Imaging '91, 1991, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

All thermal transfer serial printers currently use one-directional printing. A new bidirectional printing method for a thermal transfer printer is proposed. The new method features an electro-thermal ink transfer printing system and one-directional ink ribbon feeding at a constant speed. The image quality problems which were found in a preliminary experiment have been solved by using a newly developed ribbon and controlling the drive current pulse.

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Hitoshi Nagato and Tadayoshi Ohno "Bidirectional printing method for a thermal ink transfer printer", Proc. SPIE 1458, Printing Technologies for Images, Gray Scale, and Color, (1 August 1991); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.46338

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