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| 5402409 | Optical recording apparatus and method for adding information in a sub-scanning direction and for deflecting a light beam to an optimum sub-scanning recording position A method of optically recording original information supplied from information generating device on an optical recording material in an optical recording apparatus, comprising the steps of: generating, from the original information, interpolating informat... | 03/28/1995 |
| 5354401 | Image transfer method for cards The present invention is a method for transferring an image to a card by using a thermal transfer sheet having a separation layer provided on one side of a base layer and an image receiving layer on the separation layer for receiving dyes that move from a... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5352503 | Recording paper for ink jet recording processes The present invention provides one with a recording paper useful in ink jet recording processes. The recording paper is comprised of a substrate and a coating, with the coating comprising a pigment and a binder. The binder contains a water-soluble polymer... | 10/04/1994 |
| 4849775 | Color thermal printer printing system A color thermal printing system is disclosed which includes a color correcting unit having image data color correcting apparatus for each image data source and a dye film color correcting apparatus for dye films used in a thermal printer, such that the un... | 07/18/1989 |
| 4835603 | Color image reproduction apparatus and a composite light filter and ink ribbon for use therein A color image reproduction apparatus includes a light source, a filter, a sensor means, an ink ribbon, a printer including a printer head and a printer drive, a feeder and a controller. The light source illuminates spots on the color original and light re... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4803496 | Method for recording a color image A method of recording a full color image, for use in a printer such as a thermal printer, by means of a plurality of color inks of such as yellow, cyan, and magenta, and a black ink which is to be printed in an area in which the color inks are superimpose... | 02/07/1989 |
| 4766449 | Color recording medium package A color recording medium package for use on a heat transfer color printer in producing multicolor print. The color recording medium package comprises a recording sheet supporting member, a recording sheet supported on the recording sheet supporting member... | 08/23/1988 |
| 4748463 | Printing apparatus A printing apparatus transfers an ink layer corresponding to an image formed on a conductive light reflective layer by electrosensitive recording onto a recording paper. The apparatus is provided with a high voltage applying electrode or a corona charger ... | 05/31/1988 |
| 4710781 | Thermal printer color dye frame identification using red and yellow light sources In a thermal printer for printing color images which uses a carrier having a repeating series of spaced frames of yellow, magenta and cyan colored heat transferable dyes, apparatus for identifying the different color frames of each series uses a source of... | 12/01/1987 |
| 4698646 | Thermal transfer recording system A thermal transfer recording system comprising a supply cartridge including a case and an image forming sheet and an ink sheet housed in the case, taking-out means for taking out the image forming sheet and the ink sheet from the supply cartridge and prin... | 10/06/1987 |
| 4692774 | Multi-color recording apparatus A multi-color recording apparatus is provided with a feeding device for feeding a recording material of determined colors, a recording head for depositing the recording material supplied from the feeding device onto a recording sheet in a pattern correspo... | 09/08/1987 |
| 4672394 | Image building apparatus An improved image building apparatus of the type in which a required image is built on a sheet of printing medium by thermally transferring coloring agent on a strip of ink donor medium by means of a printing head. An additional ink donor medium holding m... | 06/09/1987 |
| 4663636 | Thermal transfer printing method and thermal head used in method thereof A thermal transfer printing method uses an ink sheet (12) having solid ink layers (11) whose optical reflection density is smaller than a maximum value of the optical reflection density of picture elements to be printed, and comprises the first step of pr... | 05/05/1987 |
| 4660051 | Thermal transfer printing method In a thermal transfer printing method, the entire surface of a record medium is thermally coated with a layer of a colored material (to form a background color for an image to be subsequently thermally printed thereon). Images are thermally printed on the... | 04/21/1987 |
| 4651167 | Printing method A printing method is shown in which printing quality is improved when superimposed thermal-transfer recording is performed. According to the present invention, at least one of a plurality of thermal-transfer media is made of a material of different therma... | 03/17/1987 |
| 4641147 | Thermal printer The present invention is equipped with a plurality of print buffers for inputting print data into a thermal head, wherein such print data are selectively fed to simply change the current on-time for energizing the heating elements of the thermal head rela... | 02/03/1987 |
| 4639742 | Method and apparatus for printing an image A thermal printer comprises a thermal printing head to heat an ink ribbon overlapping a printing sheet. The ink ribbon is coated with thermally transferable colorants and transfer ratio regulating materials. First, the transfer ratio regulating materials ... | 01/27/1987 |
| 4638331 | Image building apparatus An image building apparatus of the type in which both a sheet of printing medium and a strip of ink donor medium are displaced in the superimposed state in an area defined between a printing head and a platen. The printing head thermally transfers a color... | 01/20/1987 |
| 4638330 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus uses a transfer medium with a plurality of regions coated with different color inks and arranged in a row. The region of at least one color is different in size from the regions of other colors.... | 01/20/1987 |
| 4625218 | Drive mechanism for thermal transfer type line recorder A drive mechanism for a thermal transfer type line recording apparatus is implemented with only two drive motors in driving three essential members of the recorder i.e., platen, ink sheet, and thermal head. While a first drive motor is exclusively assigne... | 11/25/1986 |
| 4623902 | Belt-shaped material conveying apparatus At the time of conveying a transfer printing belt-shaped material having known length and utilized in a tape recorder, a picture image forming apparatus or the like by an electric motor, the length of the belt-shaped material remaining after any point the... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4622563 | Printing apparatus with multiple ribbon cassettes holder In a printing apparatus which is loaded with a transfer member including a color agent to be transferred to a sheet and which transfers the color agent to the sheet in accordance with a pattern to form an image on the sheet, a cassette holding section is ... | 11/11/1986 |
| 4621270 | Multi-color printer A heat transfer type multi-color printer which serves to automatically draw out a new ink ribbon with a simple constitution for recording. The multi-color printer includes members for holding/releasing an ink ribbon provided on a carriage which carries th... | 11/04/1986 |
| 4620199 | Thermal transfer color printer A thermal transfer color printer according to the present invention thermal inkribbon having heat-fusible color materials in a plurality of colors divided in the feed direction, a thermal head which moves relative to a print paper in order to cause the se... | 10/28/1986 |
| 4618870 | Device for compensating for fluctuation of ink transfer in thermal transfer type printer A device for compensating fluctuation in the amount of ink transfer in a thermal transfer type printer in which plurality of densities or a plurality of colors of thermally fusible ink are thermally transferred to a printing medium sequentially over a plu... | 10/21/1986 |
| 4614950 | Recording apparatus capable of precisely positioning a recording sheet A heat transfer recording apparatus comprises rotatable means for winding a recording sheet thereon, a transfer sheet having a layer of heat transfer material, guide means for winding the transfer sheet on the outer peripheral surface of the rotatable mea... | 09/30/1986 |
| 4611218 | Thermal head positioning apparatus with ribbon cassette An image transfer type image building apparatus includes a platen and a recording head, the latter being adapted to come in contact or out of contact with the former. A cassette containing a supply of thermal transfer ribbon wound on a pair of winding cor... | 09/09/1986 |
| 4598300 | Image building apparatus An improved image building apparatus for building color image on paper by transfering thereto a plurality of coloring agents on thermal transfer ribbon by means of a thermal head while reciprocably conveying paper by rotating a platen is disclosed. To ass... | 07/01/1986 |
| 4594597 | Thermal printer A thermal printer of the three-pass variety for printing in color featuring a sheet feeder, automatic registration, and ejection of the sheet when printing is complete. A rotatable, cylindrical drum has the print head close adjacent thereto and includes a... | 06/10/1986 |
| 4590362 | Drive circuit for temperature control heater in ink jet printer A circuit for controllably driving a heater in order to speed up temperature elevation at a buildup stage of a liquid which is to be maintained at a predetermined temperature heated by the heater, particularly ink in an ink jet printer. A voltage develope... | 05/20/1986 |
| 4586055 | Method and apparatus for printing colored patterns A method of and an apparatus for printing patterns of information on a record sheet, wherein those selected out of a number of printer elements arranged in an array are actuated to heat selected ones of differently colored, recurrent colored sections of a... | 04/29/1986 |
| 4573059 | Ink donor sheet color detecting device An ink donor sheet color detecting device is disclosed wherein markers differentiated from each other in shape or in length for individual colors of inks applied to an ink donor sheet are provided at positions on the ink donor sheet corresponding to indiv... | 02/25/1986 |
| 4564848 | Printer Disclosed is a printer having a plurality of heating elements disposed on a thermal head which generate heat to melt a transfer material coated on a printing tape and transfer it onto a recording medium. The printer comprises a printer body having a recor... | 01/14/1986 |
| 4558329 | Ink carrier ribbon for sublimation transfer The present invention relates to an ink carrier ribbon for thermal-transfer printing capable of printing as a hard copy a still picture of various images such as a picture image picked up by, for example, a video camera, a television picture image or the ... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4517590 | Color printing apparatus A color printing apparatus includes a scanner for scanning a color document and for converting the reflecting light from the color document into color image signals of black, red, green and blue, and a thermal head unit driven by signals corresponding to ... | 05/14/1985 |
| 4517570 | Method for tuning a phased array antenna During installation or maintenance of a phased array antenna system in which the transmission line to each element includes an adjustable phase shift device, it is required that the effective electrical lengths of the lines be adjusted to be equal, or alt... | 05/14/1985 |
| 4502057 | Method and apparatus for detecting errors in an ink ribbon in a thermal transfer type multicolor printer A method and apparatus for detecting an error such as a cutoff or the like of an ink ribbon used in a thermal transfer type multicolor printer, wherein the ink ribbon is provided with sets of ink zones containing heat dissolving inks, each set of the ink ... | 02/26/1985 |
| 4459469 | Ink temperature control apparatus for ink jet printing apparatus A liquid temperature control apparatus for an ink jet printer has a first ink temperature sensor located adjacent but at a spacing from an ink ejection head and a second ink temperature sensor mounted on a heater. The two sensors have an identical tempera... | 07/10/1984 |
| 4403874 | Color printer and multi-ribbon cartridge therefor A color printer includes a print head assembly including a plurality of independently actuable print heads serially arranged along a printing direction. Each print head includes a plurality of impact pins and an associated different color printing ribbon ... | 09/13/1983 |
