Nisca Corporation

Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.

Canon Finetech Nisca Inc.

Tsuyoshi Kubota

Yuichi Aihara

Wataru Tsuruta

Daisuke Kaneoya

Akira Takei

Hiroshi Mochizuki

Toshiro Fujimoto

Tatsuo Mochizuki

Eiji Nakazawa

Hiromitsu Tamura

Takehito Kobayashi

Tatsuzo Aoyagi

Shogo Sasuga

Nobuo Murata

Provided are a transfer rollerthat transfers an image formed on a transfer filmto a card, peeling memberthat peels off the transfer filmfrom the card after transferring the image, and transfer roller up-and-down meansand peeling member up-and-down meansfor respectively moving the transfer rollerand the peeling memberup and down. By this means, the transfer rollerand the peeling memberare moved up and down respectively at predetermined timing before transfer and after transfer, and it is thereby possible to always perform stable image formation without causing the transfer film to become damaged and/or deformed.

Printing device for transferring image from transfer film to recording medium

A printing device is provided with a housing, and a card stacker is disposed above the housing. The card stacker stores cards to be placed parallel in a laminate manner. The housing houses a card rotating section, linear card transport path each being disposed below the card stacker, printing section provided below the card transport path, various sensors, and control section. A card storage section is disposed on the most downstream side of the card transport path. The card storage section stores processed cards to overlap in a laminate manner. The card stacker enables the supply number of cards to be increased, and it is possible to increase the height of the card storage section by the card transport path positioning in the upper portion inside the housing.

Printing device

Provided is a printer capable of ensuring a large peeling angle at the time of peeling between the transfer film and the ink ribbon by differentiating a conveyance direction of the transfer film at a peeling part on a proceeding passage from the proceeding direction. In the printer which forms an image on a transfer filmwhile feeding an ink ribbonand the transfer filmto a print position between a platen rollerand a thermal headwhich are mutually pressure-contacted, the transfer filmis wound to form a conveyance passage between a feeding spooland a winding spoolin a film cassettewhich is attached to a device frame in a detachably attachable manner, and a film conveying rollerand pinch rollersare arranged at positions so that the conveyance passage of the transfer filmattached to the device frame is displaced to the inside of the cassette by a predetermined amount.

Printer

The present invention provides a printing device which provides high printing quality. The printing device includes: an image forming section which has a thermal headand a platen roller; a media conveyance section for conveying an intermediate transfer film F; a ribbon conveyance section for conveying an ink ribbon R; a sensorfor detecting a first mark formed on the film F; and a control section for controlling the image forming section, the media conveyance section, and the ribbon conveyance section in accordance with output information from the sensor. The control section presses the headinto contact with the rollerwhen the first mark is not detected, which is when the first mark is further upstream than the position of the sensor, while the film F and the ribbon R are being conveyed, and selectively heats a heating element formed in the headwhen the film F is positioned in the printing start position, which is a state in which the first mark is detected when the first mark is further downstream than the position of the sensor

Printing device and printing method

A printer has a substantially linear transport path Pin which a card C is transported, rollerprovided on the transport path Pto transport the card C, rollerspaced apart from the rolleron the transport path Pto transport the card C to the opposite side to the roller, cleaning rollerthat is disposed opposite to the rolleron the transport path Pand that has an adhesive portion for cleaning the surface of the card C, and control sectionfor controlling the rotation velocity of the rollerto rotate the rollerat least at rotation velocity Vand at rotation velocity Vlower than the rotation velocity V, where the control sectioncontrols the rotation velocity of the rollerfrom the rotation velocity Vto the rotation velocity Vfor a period during which the front end of the card C reaches the rollerfrom the cleaning roller

Recording media transporting apparatus and a printer

A printing apparatuscompares a distance &#x3b3; from a printing finish position of received printing data to a card rear end with a distance &#x3b2; set corresponding to a peeling distance &#x3b1; in which an ink ribbon R peels off from a card C, and thereby determines whether or not the printing finish position is within the distance &#x3b2; from the card rear end. As a result, when it is determined that the printing finish position is within the distance &#x3b2; from the card rear end, it is controlled that reeling of the ink ribbon R is performed by at least a distance obtained by adding the distance &#x3b3; to the distance &#x3b1; after printing on the card C is finished, and that the thermal head is then retreated to a retreat position. By this means, when the printing finish position is in the vicinity of the card rear end, the sag of the ink ribbon pulled out by a drop of the thermal head is resolved, and the ink ribbon does not wind itself around the platen roller.

Printing apparatus and printing method

A cartridge detachably attached to a printer apparatus includes a casing, an ink ribbon provided in the casing, a supply spool provided in the casing for supplying the ink ribbon, and a take-up spool provided in the casing for retrieving the ink ribbon. The printer apparatus includes a locking member rotatably supported on the printer apparatus and locking the cartridge to the printer apparatus, a detection device for detecting an installation of the cartridge by detecting a locked state of the locking member, a locking portion for locking the locking member when the cartridge is installed in the printer apparatus, and a guide forcefully and rotatingly displacing the locking member from a locking position when the cartridge is pulled out from the printer apparatus.

Printer cartridge, cartridge installation detection method and printer apparatus

A printing apparatus has a casing, a card supply opening at one side of the casing, a printing unit that performs a predetermined recording to a card supplied from the card supply opening, nip rollers that nip the card when being recorded at the printing unit, a magnetic encoder unit disposed adjacent to the printing unit that performs a predetermined recording to the card nipped by the rollers, and a card discharge outlet that discharges the card recorded at the printing and/or magnetic encoder units. The card supply opening, the printing unit and the magnetic encoder unit are disposed sequentially and substantially horizontally along the card conveyance path, and the card discharge outlet is provided in a side of the casing so that the card supply opening and card discharge output are positioned substantially vertically.

Card recording apparatus

A recording device having a first card transfer passage with a card supply unit and a second card transfer passage intersecting the first card transfer passage enables the component elements including an information recording means such as a thermal-transfer printer to be assembled compact and efficiently handle one or more cards at one time. Such rational arrangement of the first and second card transfer passages includes a card turning means located at the intersection of the passages for transferring the card between the first and second card transfer passages and recording or printing information on either or both surfaces of the card. By adding a third card transfer passage extending radially from the intersection of the first and second card transfer passages, desired information can be recorded on the card in different manner.

Recording device

A printing apparatus includes a printing device for selectively forming an image on a recording medium and a transfer medium, and a platen roller arranged opposite to the printing device. A nipping roller is arranged for nipping the transfer medium with the platen roller, and a mode setting device is used for setting a direct mode for forming the image on the recording medium and a indirect mode for forming the image on the transfer medium. A moving device moves the nipping roller to contact with and separate from the platen roller according to the direct mode and the indirect mode set by the mode setting device.

Printing apparatus

A printing method includes the steps of transporting a recording medium and an intermediate transfer medium for holding an image temporarily to an image forming position; selectively forming an image on the recording medium and the intermediate transfer medium at the image forming position; transporting the recording medium to an image transfer position; and transferring the image formed on the intermediate transfer medium to the recording medium at the image transfer position. When forming the image on the recording medium at the image forming position, it is prohibited to form the image on the intermediate transfer medium.

Printing method

An printing apparatus is equipped with a recording medium transport device for transporting a recording medium from a supply portion along a transport path; at least one printing device arranged on the transport path for selectively forming an image on the recording medium or an intermediate transfer medium for temporarily holding the image at a predetermined image forming position; and a transfer device arranged on the transport path for transferring the image formed on the intermediate transfer medium to the recording medium. A mode setting device selects a mode between the first mode in which the printing device forms the image on the recording medium and the second mode in which the printing device forms the image on the intermediate transfer medium. An intermediate transfer medium moving device advances and retracts the intermediate transfer medium between the image forming position and a retracted position.

A printing apparatus includes a card transport path composed of the first card transport path for forming an image to a card using a direct transfer method, and the second card transport path composed of a card transport path for transferring an image from an intermediate transfer sheet to the card. An image forming portion is arranged on the first card transport path for forming the image on the card or the intermediate transfer sheet. A transfer portion is arranged to the second card transport path for transferring the image from the intermediate transfer sheet to the card. The first card transport path and the second card transport path intersect while the printing apparatus can switch between the direct transfer method and the indirect transfer method.

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Yamanashi-ken, Japan

Tsuyoshi Kubota