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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 1999
Filed:
Nov. 08, 1996
Fumihito Masubuchi, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Akira Suzuki, Mishima, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A temperature controlling method and apparatus for a thermal printhead, in which a temperature of a thermosensitive recording material is detected by measuring a temperature change of the thermal printhead when a surface of the thermosensitive recording material contacts a surface of the resistant heater of the thermal printhead. The thermosensitive recording material is heated by the thermal printhead to a temperature suitable for recording or erasing an image on the thermosensitive recording material, with the temperature suitable for recording or erasing the image being changed as a function of the detected temperature of the thermosensitive recording material.