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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 25, 1998
Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In order to obtain a print area from a printing start position to a printing end position in the longitudinal direction of printing paper without leaving any margin in the lateral direction of the paper, the width of a heater line of a thermal head (,), corresponding to the lateral direction of the printing paper, is set to be not less than the width of the printing paper. Considering a shift length to be made by a cutter (,) in cutting, a CPU (,A) determines a first cutting position that is on the side of the print area with respect to the printing start position of the print area, and a final cutting position that is on the side of the print area with respect to the printing end position of the print area. Then, the CPU (,A) gives a cutting command which indicates the first and final cutting positions to the cutter (,) which will cut the printing paper at those positions. This allows an image printing apparatus to obtain cut printing paper which is entirely an effective print area without any margin.
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