WO2004110770A1 - Druckvorrichtung - Google Patents
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- WO2004110770A1 WO2004110770A1 PCT/EP2004/006450 EP2004006450W WO2004110770A1 WO 2004110770 A1 WO2004110770 A1 WO 2004110770A1 EP 2004006450 W EP2004006450 W EP 2004006450W WO 2004110770 A1 WO2004110770 A1 WO 2004110770A1
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- thermal
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- thermal bar
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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
- B41J2/00—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed
- B41J2/315—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of heat to a heat sensitive printing or impression-transfer material
- B41J2/32—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of heat to a heat sensitive printing or impression-transfer material using thermal heads
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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
- B41J25/00—Actions or mechanisms not otherwise provided for
- B41J25/304—Bodily-movable mechanisms for print heads or carriages movable towards or from paper surface
- B41J25/312—Bodily-movable mechanisms for print heads or carriages movable towards or from paper surface with print pressure adjustment mechanisms, e.g. pressure-on-the paper mechanisms
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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
- B41J3/00—Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed
- B41J3/407—Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for marking on special material
- B41J3/4075—Tape printers; Label printers
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- the invention relates to a printing device for printing surface elements of surface material, in particular goods labels made of thermosensitive paper or paper substitutes, which are supplied serially from the printing device, with a feed device for the surface elements to a print head which acts on the surface element and which has a thermal strip so flexibly carried by a carrying device that between the thermal bar and the surface element, a counter pressure surface is formed with a predetermined surface pressure on the surface element to be printed.
- Such a printing device is known from DE 100 22 152 Al. It is a printing device which is designed as a thermal printer, in which the thermal bar prints the temperature-sensitive labels by local heating. With the printer of the known type, product labels of different widths can be printed, the width of the thermal bar having to be adapted to the maximum width of the label to be printed.
- a printhead is known from DE 41 39 445 A1, which is pretensioned by means of a plurality of springs which are provided between the printhead or stops of movable shafts.
- a printing device in which the print head, which has the printing plate and a heating device for heating the printing plate, is connected to an actuating device which is movable in the opposite direction via elastic members designed as leaf springs.
- thermal bar is subject to wear due to the contact with the label surface, which limits the life of the thermal bar.
- the printing device works uneconomically because the wear in this area leads to failure of the thermal bar, although the outer zone thereof is still functional.
- thermal strips of greater width are of course more expensive than narrower ones.
- the object of the invention is to further develop a device of the type mentioned at the outset in such a way that more effective use of the thermal bar is made possible with unchanged print quality.
- This object is achieved according to the invention by assigning an adapter means which can be exchanged together with it, by means of which the deflection of the resilient holding means for the thermal bar can be set such that a constant surface pressure results regardless of the width of the thermal bar.
- the solution according to the invention is characterized in that different thermal strips can be used easily and without further adjustment measures, the width of which is adapted to the width of the surface elements to be labeled.
- an adapter is provided, which is designed so that the surface pressure when printing on the surface element is the same regardless of the width of the respective thermal bar, without adjustment measures being necessary.
- a preferred embodiment of the solution according to the invention includes an adjustment of the surface pressure such that the thickness of the adapter means is varied depending on the width of the thermal strip used. This is achieved in that with a larger width of the thermal bar there is a greater deflection of the flexible suspension of the thermal bar and accordingly with a smaller width of the thermal bar a smaller deflection, so that the surface pressure is constant regardless of the width of the thermal bar.
- this can be achieved constructively by using spacers of different thicknesses of thermal strips different widths are assigned, which are exchanged together with the thermal bar.
- spacer pins are used, the pin length of which is dimensioned such that the desired surface pressure can be set via the deflection of the resilient suspension.
- the thermal bar carries electrical, optical or mechanical identification means which cooperate with actuators which change the deflection of the spring in such a way that the desired deflection is set in accordance with the thermal bar width.
- This can be done, for example, by electrically coding the electronics assigned to the thermal bar, which serves as a control variable for the actuator.
- the position of the deflection is piezoelectric, pneumatic, motorized or hydraulic.
- the solution according to the invention can preferably be applied to surface elements in the form of product labels.
- Such goods labels can either be detachably attached to a carrier strip, which can be detached from the carrier by means of a so-called stripping device.
- stripping device a so-called stripping device
- linerless labels and continuous material can also be used.
- thermal transfer printing labels in which the print image is transferred from an intermediate medium to the label by heating the thermal bar.
- Fig. 1 shows an embodiment of the invention when using a thermal strip of a smaller width
- Fig. 2 shows the embodiment of the invention when using a thermal strip of greater width.
- the printing device shown in FIG. 1 is used to print on surface elements in the form of goods labels that come in from a feed device (not shown) in the form of a decoiler.
- the surface elements in the form of goods labels 1 made of thermosensitive paper are first guided to a pressure roller 6 forming a counter pressure surface and then run along the top of a deflection device 4. Then they meet the front edge 2 formed on the deflection device 4.
- a stationary support element 8 is provided, on which an adapter plate 7 and a thermal strip 3 are attached by means of a resilient holder 9.
- the unit consisting of the thermal bar 3 and the adapter plate 7 can be locked in the upper part of the printing device shown or can be removed together by means of locking means (not shown).
- a set consisting of adapter plate 7 and thermal strip 3 is each designed so that a wide Thermal strip 3 is assigned an adapter plate 7 of greater thickness and a thermal strip of smaller width has an adapter plate of smaller thickness.
- 1 shows a first insert set consisting of a thermal strip of smaller width and an adapter plate of smaller thickness and, in contrast, FIG. 2 shows a thermal strip of greater width in combination with an adapter plate of greater thickness.
- the matching of the thermal strip width and adapter plate thickness according to the invention always results in the same surface pressure on the product label 1 to be printed in the area of the support surface.
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Priority Applications (3)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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US10/561,585 US7256808B2 (en) | 2003-06-18 | 2004-06-16 | Printing device |
EP04736911A EP1633570A1 (de) | 2003-06-18 | 2004-06-16 | Druckvorrichtung |
CA002524181A CA2524181C (en) | 2003-06-18 | 2004-06-16 | Printing device |
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DE10327745A DE10327745B3 (de) | 2003-06-18 | 2003-06-18 | Druckvorrichtung |
DE10327745.5 | 2003-06-18 |
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WO2004110770A1 true WO2004110770A1 (de) | 2004-12-23 |
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PCT/EP2004/006450 WO2004110770A1 (de) | 2003-06-18 | 2004-06-16 | Druckvorrichtung |
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US (1) | US7256808B2 (de) |
EP (1) | EP1633570A1 (de) |
CN (1) | CN100423950C (de) |
CA (1) | CA2524181C (de) |
DE (1) | DE10327745B3 (de) |
WO (1) | WO2004110770A1 (de) |
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DE102015118732A1 (de) * | 2015-11-02 | 2017-05-04 | Espera-Werke Gmbh | Vorrichtung und Verfahren zum Bedrucken von Etiketten mittels Thermodruck |
US9937735B1 (en) * | 2017-04-20 | 2018-04-10 | Datamax—O'Neil Corporation | Self-strip media module |
Citations (6)
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DE3315947A1 (de) | 1982-05-18 | 1983-11-24 | Kabushiki Kaisha Sato, Tokyo | Waermedruckmaschine |
DE4139445A1 (de) | 1990-11-30 | 1992-06-04 | Kanzaki Paper Mfg Co Ltd | Thermodrucker |
JPH0699642A (ja) * | 1992-09-22 | 1994-04-12 | Heiwa Tokei Seisakusho:Kk | サーマルプリンターヘッドの加圧調整機構 |
EP0738606A1 (de) * | 1994-11-08 | 1996-10-23 | Seiko Instruments Inc. | Drucker |
US6118468A (en) * | 1996-06-13 | 2000-09-12 | Ricoh Company, Ltd. | Image recording apparatus |
DE10022152A1 (de) | 2000-05-08 | 2001-11-22 | Espera Werke Gmbh | Etikettendrucker |
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JPH03270964A (ja) * | 1990-03-20 | 1991-12-03 | Mutoh Ind Ltd | サーマル記録装置 |
JP3177126B2 (ja) * | 1995-06-16 | 2001-06-18 | アルプス電気株式会社 | サーマルプリンタ |
ES2149394T3 (es) * | 1996-03-07 | 2000-11-01 | Esselte Nv | Mecanismo que indica la presencia de una cinta en un aparato de impresion de cinta. |
JP3705014B2 (ja) * | 1999-05-31 | 2005-10-12 | 株式会社島津製作所 | プリンタ |
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- 2003-06-18 DE DE10327745A patent/DE10327745B3/de not_active Expired - Fee Related
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- 2004-06-16 EP EP04736911A patent/EP1633570A1/de not_active Withdrawn
- 2004-06-16 CA CA002524181A patent/CA2524181C/en not_active Expired - Fee Related
- 2004-06-16 US US10/561,585 patent/US7256808B2/en not_active Expired - Fee Related
- 2004-06-16 WO PCT/EP2004/006450 patent/WO2004110770A1/de active Search and Examination
- 2004-06-16 CN CNB2004800150361A patent/CN100423950C/zh not_active Expired - Fee Related
Patent Citations (6)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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DE3315947A1 (de) | 1982-05-18 | 1983-11-24 | Kabushiki Kaisha Sato, Tokyo | Waermedruckmaschine |
DE4139445A1 (de) | 1990-11-30 | 1992-06-04 | Kanzaki Paper Mfg Co Ltd | Thermodrucker |
JPH0699642A (ja) * | 1992-09-22 | 1994-04-12 | Heiwa Tokei Seisakusho:Kk | サーマルプリンターヘッドの加圧調整機構 |
EP0738606A1 (de) * | 1994-11-08 | 1996-10-23 | Seiko Instruments Inc. | Drucker |
US6118468A (en) * | 1996-06-13 | 2000-09-12 | Ricoh Company, Ltd. | Image recording apparatus |
DE10022152A1 (de) | 2000-05-08 | 2001-11-22 | Espera Werke Gmbh | Etikettendrucker |
Non-Patent Citations (1)
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PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN vol. 0183, no. 66 (M - 1636) 11 July 1994 (1994-07-11) * |
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US7256808B2 (en) | 2007-08-14 |
US20060139435A1 (en) | 2006-06-29 |
CN1798660A (zh) | 2006-07-05 |
CA2524181A1 (en) | 2004-12-23 |
DE10327745B3 (de) | 2004-12-23 |
CN100423950C (zh) | 2008-10-08 |
CA2524181C (en) | 2009-01-06 |
EP1633570A1 (de) | 2006-03-15 |
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