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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 19, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kazuhiro Takeda, Shizuoka, JP;
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/38 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/38 ;
Abstract
A thermally sensitive printing apparatus and method checks the temperature of a recording device after rolling back a recording medium to a ready position. If the temperature is below a first predetermined value, a warm-up operation is performed allowing the recording medium to be fed through the apparatus at normal operating speed. If the temperature is below a second predetermined value, the recording medium is either fed through the apparatus at a reduced speed or more energy is sent to the recording device while feeding recording medium at the normal operating speed.