Graphtec Kabushiki Kaisha

Toshiyuki Takeuchi

Alfred S Krause

Data records provided by thermal recording heads, including a plurality of clocked heating elements, are controlled in density by continually storing for each of such heating elements a present moment recording datum and further recording data including a one-clock-interval-old recording datum and a two-clock-interval-old recording datum for the particular heating element, and by continually generating for each heating element from the present moment recording datum to be recorded a first dot recording energization quantum and for each of the further dot recording data having been printed a dot recording energization pause and for each blank value of such further dot recording data a further dot recording energization quantum. This advantageously includes an insertion, for each one-clock-interval-old recording datum having been printed by the particular heating element, of an energization pause between a dot recording energization quantum corresponding to a blank value of the immediately preceding two-clock-interval-old recording datum and the then present moment dot recording energization datum. The heating elements are sequentially energized with dot recording quanta thus generated.

Thermal printout density control

When selecting a coordinate grid pattern within which to record data on a chart, a line of such grid pattern is selected as a reference line recordable by one of the elements of a recording head. A reference level corresponding to that reference line is provided. One heating element is ranked in terms of position across the thermal recording head. A discrepancy in ranking between that one heating element and a heating element of the recording head with which the reference level is recorded on the chart is noted. A shifting in ranking pursuant to such a noted discrepancy is effected until the heating element with which the reference level is recorded and the above mentioned one heating element with which the reference line of the grid pattern is recorded have become identical.

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Chigasaki, Japan

Toshiyuki Takeuchi