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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 1985
Filed:
Oct. 28, 1982
Applicant:
Inventors:
Masayoshi Nagashima, Chigasaki, JP;
Hiroshi Yamane, Ebina, JP;
Assignee:
Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Kawasaki, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358 75 ; 346 / ;
Abstract
A color printing apparatus includes a scanner for scanning a color document and for converting the reflecting light from the color document into color image signals of black, red, green and blue, and a thermal head unit driven by signals corresponding to complementary colors of the colors of the color signals from the scanner. The thermal head unit, making an ink ribbon to contact the paper intimately, transfers the inks of the ink layers of black, magenta, yellow and cyan on the ink ribbon according to the complementary color signals.