WO1995024316A1 - Ruban encreur code pour imprimante et son mode d'utilisation - Google Patents

Ruban encreur code pour imprimante et son mode d'utilisation Download PDF

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WO1995024316A1
WO1995024316A1 PCT/US1995/002028 US9502028W WO9524316A1 WO 1995024316 A1 WO1995024316 A1 WO 1995024316A1 US 9502028 W US9502028 W US 9502028W WO 9524316 A1 WO9524316 A1 WO 9524316A1
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print ribbon
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Denis J. Stemmle
Gary S. Bricault
John L. Vi Sehon
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Xerox Corporation
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J35/00—Other apparatus or arrangements associated with, or incorporated in, ink-ribbon mechanisms
    • B41J35/36—Alarms, indicators, or feed disabling devices responsive to ink ribbon breakage or exhaustion
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J17/00—Mechanisms for manipulating page-width impression-transfer material, e.g. carbon paper
    • B41J17/36—Alarms, indicators, or feed-disabling devices responsible to material breakage or exhaustion
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J35/00—Other apparatus or arrangements associated with, or incorporated in, ink-ribbon mechanisms
    • B41J35/16—Multicolour arrangements
    • B41J35/18—Colour change effected automatically

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  • the ink is transferred from the flexible substrate to the receiving medium by applying heat to selected portions of the ribbon.
  • the bar code represents the type of print ribbon (for example, the bar code represents a number that corresponds to the type of print ribbon).
  • the controller retrieves the printing parameters appropriate for that print ribbon from a look-up table (stored in a memory of the printing system).
  • a limitation of this technique is that when new print ribbons are developed, having a new set of optimal printing parameters that should be used by the printing mechanism, the look-up tables in previously available printers do not contain the new optimal set of parameters for use with the new ribbon.
  • U.S. Patent No. 5,144,331 to Amano discloses a drive control method for a thermal transfer printer adapted to carry out printing by detecting a mark formed upstream or downstream of an ink layer on an elongated ink medium for indicating the color of the ink layer.
  • the detecting marks are discriminated from one another by differentiating the number of bars constituting a color.
  • Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a portable copier that uses a print ribbon according to the invention
  • the odd-numbered bars are dark bars and the even-numbered bars are light bars. Both the light and dark bars encode data.
  • the narrow bars which have a width of about 0.10 inches could represent a data bit having a value of 0, while the wide bars, which have a width of about 0.15 inches, could represent a data bit having a value of 1.
  • bits B1, B3-B5, B8-B11, B14, B15, B17, B18 and B21-23 are narrow bars, while data bars B2, B6, B7, B12, B13, B16, B19, and B20 are wide bars.
  • the ondot modification instruction can reference an equation, for example, a slope that is used to calculate a decrease in the ondot pulse width as the printhead moves in scan direction 55. For example, if 3400 dots could be made by each heating element as it moves across the sheet, and the first possible dot energy was established to be a 200 microsecond pulse width, the pulse width might be reduced by 2 microseconds every 100 dots. In this case, the last hundred dots would have a pulse width of 132 microseconds.
  • Bits B8-B12 provide information regarding the offdot pulse. As detailed earlier, the offdot pulse is a pulse that is insufficient to cause dot formation. The offdot pulse is used to prevent less active heating elements from cooling below a predetermined temperature.
  • the second portion (i.e., the checking portion) of the bar code can be located entirely at the end of the bar code as shown in Figure 12, or it can be dispersed throughout the bar code, in which case each separate part of the checking portion could represent the total number of wide (or narrow) bars contained in the information portion of the bar code located immediately prior to that checking portion.
  • Fig. 13 shows a bar code that contains three print control information portions P1-P3 and three checking portions C1-C3 interspersed with the print control information portions PI ⁇ PS.
  • Each checking portion can contain a bar code pattern that is the binary representation of the total number of wide bars in its corresponding print ribbon information portion.
  • checking portion C1 can be the binary representation of the total number of wide bars in portion P1, etc. (The actual bars are not shown in Fig. 13 for simplicity.)

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Abstract

Ruban encreur pour imprimante, comprenant un substrat souple (200) enduit sur une portion d'une de ses deux faces d'une encre transférable (202). L'une desdites faces est munie de marques (B1-B23) lisibles par machine et pouvant comporter un code dont une partie au moins indique une valeur d'un réglage destiné à un contrôleur de l'imprimante faisant appel audit ruban pour permettre d'effectuer l'impression selon ledit réglage, et cela, sans avoir à rechercher les instructions de réglage dans une mémoire. Le code peut également comprendre une première partie indiquant au moins un réglage destiné à être utilisé par un mécanisme d'impression afin d'effectuer une impression au moyen dudit ruban encreur, et une seconde partie fournissant des instructions modifiant le ou les réglages pendant l'impression.
PCT/US1995/002028 1994-03-07 1995-02-17 Ruban encreur code pour imprimante et son mode d'utilisation WO1995024316A1 (fr)

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FR2778142A1 (fr) * 1998-04-30 1999-11-05 Sagem Cartouche perfectionnee de produit consommable pour imprimante
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US6135658A (en) * 1999-06-24 2000-10-24 Eastman Kodak Company Thermal printer donor media with single track code containing multiple data fields and apparatus for detecting and reading the same
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US20130016368A1 (en) * 2011-07-14 2013-01-17 Source Technologies, Llc Automatically adjusting printing parameters using media identification
WO2014120567A1 (fr) * 2013-01-31 2014-08-07 Illinois Tool Works Ruban d'impression et procédé pour un système d'impression à ruban
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EP0988991A3 (fr) * 1998-09-24 2001-01-31 Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. Feuille pour transfert thermique, méthode d'enregistrement par transfert thermique, système d'enregistrement par transfert thermique, circuit résonnant et procédé de production de ce dernier
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US6165687A (en) * 1999-06-29 2000-12-26 Eastman Kodak Company Standard array, programmable image forming process
US20130016368A1 (en) * 2011-07-14 2013-01-17 Source Technologies, Llc Automatically adjusting printing parameters using media identification
US9481186B2 (en) * 2011-07-14 2016-11-01 Datamax-O'neil Corporation Automatically adjusting printing parameters using media identification
US20170096021A1 (en) * 2011-07-14 2017-04-06 Datamax-O'neil Corporation Automatically adjusting printing parameters using media identification
WO2014120567A1 (fr) * 2013-01-31 2014-08-07 Illinois Tool Works Ruban d'impression et procédé pour un système d'impression à ruban
US9676216B2 (en) 2014-03-27 2017-06-13 Datamax-O'neil Corporation Systems and methods for automatic printer configuration

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