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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:
Jan. 17, 1995
Filed:
Dec. 04, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
346 / ; 358298 ;
Abstract
A wax transfer type thermal printer includes a thermal head having a plurality of heating elements arranged in the main scanning direction. Each heating element transfers an ink dot in a unit pixel. The length of each ink dot is changed in accordance with gradation levels. In printing characters, a unit pixel is used as one pixel. In printing a half-tone image, the heating elements are divided into plural groups each of which has N heating elements and records (N.times.M) unit pixels as one pixel, where M, N are integers of 2 or more.