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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 1998
Filed:
Apr. 30, 1996
Daniel Charles Maslanka, Rochester, NY (US);
Vlade Josif Kordovich, Rochester, NY (US);
Terrence Lee Fisher, Rochester, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A thermal printer (10) is useful for printing onto a receiver sheet (22, 24, 26) and includes an elongated rotatable platen (34); an elongated thermal print head (30) positioned parallel to the platen; a supply roll (28) of dye donor web (31) positioned upstream of the print head; a mechanism (76-112, 132-142) for pressing the print head into engagement with the dye donor web and, in an absence of a receiver sheet, for pressing the dye donor web into engagement with the platen; and a mechanism (180-188) for rotating the platen, while the print head is pressing the dye donor web against the platen, to move the dye donor web between the print head and the platen.