Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Canon Denshi Kabushiki Kaisha

Yoshihiro Kobata

Osamu Asakura

Hiroyuki Ueda

Takashi Hirata

Tatsuo Nishikawa

Junichi Motoyoshi

Masahiro Rachi

Kozo Okubo

A printer comprises print means for printing on a print medium in accordance with a print command; guide and hold means for guiding the print means toward a print surface of the print medium with a print surface of the print means facing the print surface of the print medium and for holding the print means at the guided position; and actuation means for pressing the print means substantially normally to the guide direction of the guide and hold means to resiliently fit to a positioning area formed on the print means and fix the print means at a print position.

Printer

A printer which operates to use selectively at least two different types of ink ribbons. The printer is characterized in that the printing pressure is varied in response to the selection of the type of ink ribbon.

Device for controlling printing pressure according to the kind of ink

The invention provides a thermal transfer printer wherein printing is performed by reciprocally moving a recording head with heating elements. When a correction instruction is input, the amount of heat generated for printing one character is increased as compared with the amount of heat in normal printing.

Thermal transfer printer

Improvement in the printing device of a type ring selection system, wherein each independent type ring for each numerical place is rotationally controlled to select a required type on the outer periphery of each type ring at a position opposite to a platen, whereby the types for these numerical places to be printed in one line are aligned and the single line is printed at once with the thus aligned types.

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Tokyo, Japan

Yoshihiro Kobata