JPS5867494A - Heat transfer printer - Google Patents

Heat transfer printer

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Publication number
JPS5867494A
JPS5867494A JP16663281A JP16663281A JPS5867494A JP S5867494 A JPS5867494 A JP S5867494A JP 16663281 A JP16663281 A JP 16663281A JP 16663281 A JP16663281 A JP 16663281A JP S5867494 A JPS5867494 A JP S5867494A
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JP
Japan
Prior art keywords
ink ribbon
printing
carriage
ribbon
pulse motor
Prior art date
Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
Granted
Application number
JP16663281A
Other languages
Japanese (ja)
Other versions
JPS6363389B2 (en
Inventor
Toshibumi Tako
多湖 俊文
Hiroshi Owada
浩 大和田
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Canon Inc
Original Assignee
Canon Inc
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Application filed by Canon Inc filed Critical Canon Inc
Priority to JP16663281A priority Critical patent/JPS5867494A/en
Publication of JPS5867494A publication Critical patent/JPS5867494A/en
Publication of JPS6363389B2 publication Critical patent/JPS6363389B2/ja
Granted legal-status Critical Current

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Classifications

    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41JTYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J33/00Apparatus or arrangements for feeding ink ribbons or like character-size impression-transfer material
    • B41J33/14Ribbon-feed devices or mechanisms

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  • Impression-Transfer Materials And Handling Thereof (AREA)
  • Electronic Switches (AREA)

Abstract

PURPOSE:To raise the using efficiency of an ink ribbon by using a system in which a rewinding means for an ink ribbon is provided and the ink ribbon of an amount to be rewound before a carriage moves to a printing position is beforehand rewound before the beginning of printing. CONSTITUTION:A heat transfer printer to make heat-transfer printing by means of a thermal head 1 mounted on a carriage 4 while driving an ink ribbon 6 is provided with a pulse motor 11 for rewinding the ink ribbon 6. Before beginning of printing, the pulse motor 11 for rewinding the ink ribbon 6 is driven to rewind the ink ribbon of an amount to be rewound until the moving speed of the carriage 4 is synchronized with that of the ink ribbon 6. Then, the carriage 4 is driven, the pulse motor 7 for rewinding the ribbon is driven, and thereby the speeds of the carriage 4 and the ribbon 6 are synchronized with each other. Then, the carriage 4 is moved to printing positions for printing.

Description

【発明の詳細な説明】 本発明は、転写インクリボンを駆動しながらサーマルヘ
ッドで印字する熱転写プリンタKllする。
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention provides a thermal transfer printer that prints with a thermal head while driving a transfer ink ribbon.

従来、転写インクリボンをI[ll、サーマルヘッドの
圧接により熱転写印字を行う場合、ナーマtか碍期して
いないと鮮明な印字が得られない為。
Conventionally, when performing thermal transfer printing by applying pressure to a transfer ink ribbon using a thermal head, clear printing cannot be obtained unless the material is well coated.

実際の印字を開始する位置より以前にインクリボン巻き
を行っている。
The ink ribbon is wound before the actual printing start position.

この場合、印字されない部分のインクリーンを巻きとる
為、その巻きとりが行なわれるインクリボンを無駄に使
用していることになる。
In this case, since the ink ribbon is wound up on the part that is not printed, the ink ribbon that is being wound up is wasted.

本発明は上記の点を鑑み成されたもので、印字開始する
以前に巻きとられる量のインクリーンを予め4Iきもど
すことKよりインクリボンの使用効ダ 率を上げることができる熱転写プリン本を提供すること
を目的とする〇 以下、本発明の一実施例を図面に従って112#!Aす
るO 第1図社、本発明の一実施例である熱転写グリンメの概
略平面図である。図において、1は、サー!にヘッドで
例えば縦1列の24ドツトの発熱餘よりなるもので、プ
リンターインターフェイス15(第2図参照)からの文
字パターン信号によりそれぞれのドツトが選択的に発熱
され、文字をプラテン2に巻回されたプリント用紙6に
プリントする。コノナーマルヘッド1は、キャリッジ4
に固定されており、印字時には、キャリッジ4上klj
i足されたソレノイド5が駆動され、キャリッジ4の移
動に同期して動くインクリボン60巻き堆り用パルスモ
ータ7が駆動されることによりプリント用紙3に圧接さ
れプリントされる。この印字動作はキャリッジ4を矢印
Aの方向へリボンは矢印Bの方向へ動かしながら行なわ
れる。又、インクリボン60巻きもどしは巻きもどし用
パルスモータ11を駆動することにより矢印Cの方向に
巻きもどされる。
The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and provides a thermal transfer printing book that can increase the efficiency of ink ribbon use by returning the amount of ink ribbon that is wound up before printing starts. Hereinafter, one embodiment of the present invention will be described according to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a schematic plan view of a thermal transfer grimmer according to an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, 1 is Sir! The head is made up of, for example, a vertical row of 24 dots, each dot is selectively heated by a character pattern signal from the printer interface 15 (see Figure 2), and the characters are wound around the platen 2. Print on the printed printing paper 6. The cononermal head 1 has a carriage 4
When printing, the klj on carriage 4 is fixed.
The i-added solenoid 5 is driven, and the pulse motor 7 for winding and stacking the ink ribbon 60, which moves in synchronization with the movement of the carriage 4, is driven, so that the ink ribbon 60 is brought into pressure contact with the print paper 3 and printed. This printing operation is performed while moving the carriage 4 in the direction of arrow A and the ribbon in the direction of arrow B. Further, the ink ribbon 60 is unwound in the direction of arrow C by driving the unwinding pulse motor 11.

8及び9は、リボン巻きもどし用パルスモータ11及び
リボン巻き取り用モータ7の回転をインクリボン6に伝
えるための爪車で、この爪車8及び9は、レバー10及
び11が固定されており、レバー10及び11に備えつ
けられたバネ12及び13によりインクリボン6に押圧
されている。
8 and 9 are ratchet wheels for transmitting the rotation of the ribbon unwinding pulse motor 11 and the ribbon winding motor 7 to the ink ribbon 6, and levers 10 and 11 are fixed to the ratchet wheels 8 and 9. , are pressed against the ink ribbon 6 by springs 12 and 13 attached to the levers 10 and 11.

wc2図は、第1図に示した熱転写プリンタを搭載した
ワードプロセッサの構成を示すブロック図テアリ、第1
図のように構成されたプリンタの制御は、中央演算処理
装置CPU14によって行なわれ、プリントの開始、イ
ンクリメンの駆動、サーマルヘッドの圧接、インクリメ
ン巻きもどし等の制御はプリンタ制御部16内に記憶さ
れた手順に従い、インターフェイス15を介して行なわ
れる。又、プリンタ17へ出力される文字パターン信号
紘、インターフェイス15内のダイレフトメ毫すアクセ
ス(DMA)機能により行なわれる。
Figure wc2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a word processor equipped with the thermal transfer printer shown in Figure 1.
The printer configured as shown in the figure is controlled by the central processing unit CPU 14, and controls such as starting printing, driving the increments, pressing the thermal head, and rewinding the increments are stored in the printer control unit 16. This is done via the interface 15 according to the procedure. Further, the character pattern signal output to the printer 17 and the direct mail access (DMA) function in the interface 15 are used.

ここで、プリンタIIJII部16により制御される各
装置の操作手順を第6図のフローチャートを参照して詳
細Kinする。まず、ワードプロセッサ制御1118か
らの指示によりプリンタ制御部16が奈゛ 手続きを開始する。この手続きで開始されると、ステッ
プS1でインクリボン60巻きもどし用パルスモータ1
1を駆動し、キャリッジ4の移動速度とインクリボン6
の移動速度が同期されるまでに巻きとられるインクリボ
ン童を巻きもどし、ステップS2でキャリッジ4を駆動
する。そしてステップS5でリボン巻き取り用パルスモ
ータ7を駆動する。
Here, the operating procedures of each device controlled by the printer IIJII section 16 will be explained in detail with reference to the flowchart of FIG. First, the printer control section 16 starts a procedure in response to an instruction from the word processor control 1118. When this procedure is started, in step S1, the pulse motor 1 for unwinding the ink ribbon 60 is
1, the moving speed of the carriage 4 and the ink ribbon 6 are adjusted.
The ink ribbon which has been wound up until the moving speeds of the ink ribbons are synchronized is rewound, and the carriage 4 is driven in step S2. Then, in step S5, the ribbon winding pulse motor 7 is driven.

ステップ84で先頭印字位置までキャリッジ4が移動す
るまで待つ。
In step 84, the process waits until the carriage 4 moves to the first printing position.

印字位置まで移動したら、ステップS5で今ヤリツジ4
とインクリボン6の速度が同期しているか否かを判別し
、同期していなければステップS9に進む。同期してい
れば、ステップS6でソレノイド5を駆動しサーマルヘ
ッド7を圧接しステップS7でこの行の終了利足を行う
。終了していればステップ810へ進む。終了していな
い場合。
After moving to the printing position, in step S5
It is determined whether the speeds of the ink ribbon 6 and the speed of the ink ribbon 6 are synchronized, and if they are not synchronized, the process advances to step S9. If they are synchronized, the solenoid 5 is driven in step S6 to press the thermal head 7, and the end footing of this row is performed in step S7. If the process has been completed, the process advances to step 810. If not finished.

ステップS8において、データバッファ20に格納され
でいる1文字のパターンの送信をプリンタインターフェ
イス15に対して指令する。その後ステップS7に進み
、この行の終了まで繰返す。
In step S8, the printer interface 15 is instructed to transmit the one-character pattern stored in the data buffer 20. Thereafter, the process advances to step S7 and is repeated until the end of this line.

ステップS9では、エラー処理に入りステップS10に
進む。ステップ810において、ソレノイド5の駆動を
止め、サーマルヘッド1をプリント紙3より圧接を解除
すると共にインクリボン巻き取り用パルスモータ7の駆
動を止め、キャリッジ4を先頭へもどし次の印刷行まで
移動させる。
In step S9, error processing is entered and the process proceeds to step S10. In step 810, the drive of the solenoid 5 is stopped, the thermal head 1 is released from the print paper 3, and the drive of the pulse motor 7 for taking up the ink ribbon is stopped, and the carriage 4 is returned to the beginning and moved to the next printing line. .

その後、ワードプ四セッf制御IEl制御を戻す。Thereafter, the warp four set f control IEl control is returned.

本実施例では示さなかったが、プリンタ17への文字パ
ターンの出力は文字パターンメモリ19を介し、DMA
Kよりプリンタ17へ転送されるよう構成されている。
Although not shown in this embodiment, the character pattern is output to the printer 17 via the character pattern memory 19, using DMA.
K is configured to be transferred to the printer 17.

會九、本装置にはフロッピーディスタ21.その制御部
22、表示器26、シよびその制御部24、文字等情報
を入力するキーボード25.その制御部26を具備しワ
ードプロセッサを構成している。
9.This device has a floppy disk drive 21. The controller 22, the display 26, the controller 24, the keyboard 25 for inputting information such as characters. The control unit 26 constitutes a word processor.

以上、説明し九ように本発明によれば、サーマルヘッド
の移動速度とインクリボンの移動速度との同期がとれる
以前に、巻き取られるインクリボンの量だけ予め巻きも
どしておくことにより、インクシポンの無駄が除かれて
使用効率が良くなる熱転写プリンタを提供することがで
きる。
As described above, according to the present invention, before the moving speed of the thermal head and the moving speed of the ink ribbon are synchronized, the ink ribbon is unwound in advance by the amount of the ink ribbon to be wound. It is possible to provide a thermal transfer printer that eliminates waste and improves usage efficiency.

【図面の簡単な説明】[Brief explanation of the drawing]

第1図は、本発明の一実施例である熱転写プリンタの概
略平面図、第2図は、第1図に示した熱転、写プリンタ
を搭載し走ワー ドグロセッサの構成を示すブロック図
、第3図は、その動作をa52i1111するためのフ
ローチャート図であり、1はサーマルヘッド、6はイン
クリボン、7はインクリボン巻き取り用パルスモータ、
10はインクリボン巻きもどし用パルスモータ、16は
プリンタ制御部である0
FIG. 1 is a schematic plan view of a thermal transfer printer that is an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a running word processor equipped with the thermal transfer printer shown in FIG. Figure 3 is a flowchart for the operation, in which 1 is a thermal head, 6 is an ink ribbon, 7 is a pulse motor for winding up the ink ribbon,
10 is a pulse motor for rewinding the ink ribbon, and 16 is a printer control unit 0.

Claims (1)

【特許請求の範囲】 インクリボンを駆動しながら中ヤリツジに俗歌したサー
マルヘッドで熱転写印字を行なう熱転写プリンタにおい
て、 前記インクリギンを巻きもどす手段を設け、前記サーマ
ルヘッドで印字を開始する以前K、前記巻もどし手段に
より印字位置へ前記中ヤリツジを移動するまでに巻取ら
れる量の少なくとも一部の前記インクリボンを予め巻き
もどすようにしたことを特徴とする熱転写プリンタ。
[Scope of Claims] A thermal transfer printer that performs thermal transfer printing with a thermal head that rotates while driving an ink ribbon, wherein means is provided for unwinding the ink ribbon, and before printing is started with the thermal head, A thermal transfer printer, characterized in that at least a portion of the ink ribbon that is wound up until the intermediate yarn is moved to a printing position is unwound in advance by an unwinding means.
JP16663281A 1981-10-19 1981-10-19 Heat transfer printer Granted JPS5867494A (en)

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JPS6363389B2 JPS6363389B2 (en) 1988-12-07

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Cited By (6)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US4642658A (en) * 1984-12-20 1987-02-10 Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Image forming apparatus
US4717272A (en) * 1985-08-26 1988-01-05 Smith Corona Corporation Ribbon feed mechanism
US4760405A (en) * 1985-10-22 1988-07-26 Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Method and apparatus for recording an image
US4891652A (en) * 1986-03-10 1990-01-02 Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Image recording apparatus using plural types of energy and reversible transfer recording medium conveyance
US5181788A (en) * 1987-03-02 1993-01-26 Bantec, Inc. Ribbon saving control mechanism
US5533819A (en) * 1986-02-12 1996-07-09 Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Character by character thermal recording device with ink sheet feed control

Cited By (6)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US4642658A (en) * 1984-12-20 1987-02-10 Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Image forming apparatus
US4717272A (en) * 1985-08-26 1988-01-05 Smith Corona Corporation Ribbon feed mechanism
US4760405A (en) * 1985-10-22 1988-07-26 Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Method and apparatus for recording an image
US5533819A (en) * 1986-02-12 1996-07-09 Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Character by character thermal recording device with ink sheet feed control
US4891652A (en) * 1986-03-10 1990-01-02 Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Image recording apparatus using plural types of energy and reversible transfer recording medium conveyance
US5181788A (en) * 1987-03-02 1993-01-26 Bantec, Inc. Ribbon saving control mechanism

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