Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha

Chikahiro Saegusa

Hiroyasu Ishii

Sadayoshi Mochida

Kiyoshi Morino

A printing apparatus includes a conveyor configured to convey a sheet along a conveyance path, a print head on the conveyance path, a main scan direction of the print head crossing the conveyance path, and a controller configured to control the print head to, in a first printing mode, set a print reference position to a first end of the print head in the main scan direction and print an image on the sheet from a leading end side of the image, and in a second printing mode, set the print reference position to a second end of the print head in the main scan direction and print the image on the sheet from a trailing end side of the image.

Printing apparatus

A print apparatus includes a conveyor configured to convey a sheet along a conveyance path in a first direction. The print apparatus also includes a print head on the conveyance path, a main scan direction of the print head crossing the first direction. The print apparatus further includes a print controller configured to control the print head that in a first print mode prints images on the sheet using a first print reference position on a first end of the print head in the main scan direction and a first image direction parallel to the first direction, and in a second print mode prints images on the sheet using a second print reference position on a second end of the print head in the main scan direction and a second image direction parallel and opposite to the first image direction.

According to one embodiment, a printer includes an image forming unit, a coloring conversion unit, and a deterring unit. The image forming unit forms an image from a temperature-sensitive ink whose color is changed depending on a temperature on a medium. The coloring conversion unit converts a coloring state of the image of the temperature-sensitive ink by heating or cooling the image of the temperature-sensitive ink. The deterring unit provided between the coloring conversion unit and the image forming unit deters an air heated or cooled by the coloring conversion unit from flowing toward the image forming unit.

Printer and print system

A printer comprises a conveying unit configured to convey a medium. The printer includes an image forming unit provided in a conveyance path of the medium, the image forming unit being configured to form an image with a temperature-sensitive ink, whose color is changed depending on a temperature, on the medium. A cutter for cutting the medium is provided in the conveyance path downstream of a medium conveyance direction of the image forming unit. Further, a coloring conversion unit is provided in the conveyance path downstream of a medium conveyance direction of the cutter. The coloring conversion unit is configured to change a coloring state of the image of the temperature-sensitive ink by heating or cooling the image of the temperature-sensitive ink formed on the cut medium.

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Shizuoka, Japan

Chikahiro Saegusa