Kabushiki Kaisha Tec

Akio Katsumata

Tsugio Shiozaki

Kazuaki Sugimoto

Mamoru Ishikawa

Chiaki Yukawa

A platen is located at a print position in a sheet path leading from a sheet supply position through the print position to a sheet delivery position, and a thermal head having an edge portion at which a plurality of heating elements are arranged in a line is held by a head holder, wherein the thermal head is positioned so that the heating elements are kept in contact with the platen through the sheet path at the print position and that the heating elements are directed to a downstream side of the sheet path. With this arrangement, the heating elements of the thermal head can be located close to the sheet delivery position, so that just after a leading sheet after printed is delivered, the next sheet can be printed.

Line thermal printer

The printer is provided with a detection data storage area section comprising sixteen storage areas for storing detection data from a transmission type sensor for every 1-step driving of a feed motor. When the difference between the last detection data and the detection data before steps is a value equal to or more than 0.7 V, the last detection data is set in a gap determination level storage area, is set in a gap flag area, and counting by a gap length counter is started. Thereafter, when the detection data from the transmission type sensor comes to be equal to or smaller than the value set in the gap determination level storage area is set in the gap flag area and the position in the half of the count value of the gap length counter is recognized as the gap center.

Printer with sheet positioning marks control

A history recording apparatus comprises an EEPROM for storing operation history data regarding a predetermined operation performed by a label printer, and an IC socket provided on a circuit board of the label printer and detachably connectable to the EEPROM. In particular, the history recording apparatus further comprises a CPU for updating the operation history data stored in the nonvolatile memory connected to the IC socket, upon detection of the predetermined operation having been performed a preset number of times which is determined on the basis of a writing tolerance limit of the EEPROM.

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Mishima, Japan

Akio Katsumata