Kabushiki Kaisha Sato

Sato Holdings Kabushiki Kaisha

Osamu Fukuzawa

Hideaki Koizumi

A thermal transfer ribbon printer ribbon cassette apparatus and a ribbon cassette mounting method by which a ribbon cassette for a thermal transfer ribbon of large roller size can be easily and reliably set in a thermal transfer printer. Focussing on the use of a main guide shaft as an initial guide, guidability along a printer main body stay and, finally, engageability of a final positioning engagement pin and a final position engagement hole, a cassette main body is formed to be attachable to a printer main body by providing a cassette main body stay in which a main guide hole to which a main guide shaft is formed detachably, a final positioning engagement pin formed in a printer main body stay, and a final positioning engagement hole formed in a handle-side base plate.

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Tokyo, Japan

Osamu Fukuzawa