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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 1991
Filed:
Feb. 05, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
346 / ; 400120 ;
Abstract
A thermal printer is provided which may use various types of ribbons including print only and print and erase ribbons. The printer includes a memory having stored therein predetermined printing condition data corresponding to a plurality of print modes including a mode in which only printing may be executed and a mode in which both printing and erasing may be executed. One of the modes is selected based upon the type of ink ribbon being used and the printing conditions are set in accordance with the stored data for the selected ribbon.