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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 03, 1999
Olympus Optical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A code image recorder controls the quantity of heat for printing the part of a pattern to be printed to a high definition level so as to reduce the area of each of the dots of the printed pattern, while printing many identical dots in an overlapping fashion to solidly print the remaining part of the pattern within a short period of time by use of a single pulse of an energization signal. In order to achieve this objective, the number of columns of a code image data area is doubled and an all “0” column data is inserted into every other column of the code image data to double the level of resolution only in the column direction. Thereafter, the portion of the code image data to be solidly printed is transformed in such a way that it is filled with “ s”.