JPS61279559A - Multicolor print head - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To save the high cost of a continuous writing system and to remove the indistinctness of a dot system, by providing a subordinate carriage set on a main carriage movably in a second-axis direction forming some angle to a first-axis direction, a subordinate feeding mechanism driving the subordinate carriage in connection with a movement of the main carriage, and a pen held controllably in shaking by the subordinate carriage. CONSTITUTION:A shaft 122 corresponding to the shaft 22 of a main carriage 12 is provided on a subordinate carriage 100, and a pen holder 123 with an armature 126 is supported pivotally by said shaft 122. A cassette pen 124 constituting continuous writing pens E and F is inserted into the pen holder 123. When a coil 127 fitted on the subordinate carriage 100 is actuated, a yoke 128 attracts the armature 126, the cassette pen 124 is thereby tilted, and the pen point thereof is made to contact with recording paper 2. When a stepping motor 51 is operated under the condition, a line in a Y-axis direction can be drawn on the recording paper 2. With an exciting current of the coil 127 discontinued, the cassette pen 124 is pushed up by an action of a return spring 125 and thereby the pen point separates from the recording paper 2.