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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2001
Tomoyoshi Nishimura, Saitama, JP;
Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
To record an image on a thermosensitive color recording material, a heating element array of a thermal head is pressed onto an obverse side of the thermosensitive color recording material while a platen roller supports the color recording material from its back side. The thermosensitive color recording material is conveyed first in a forward direction for recording a yellow frame, next in a backward direction for recording a magenta frame, and then again in the forward direction for recording a cyan frame. A rotary shaft of the platen roller is mounted to bearing members that are caused by a pair of piezoelectric actuators to slide back and forth along conveying directions of the thermosensitive color recording material, thereby to displace a rotary center of the platen roller upstream from a center of the heating element in either conveying direction of the thermosensitive color recording material.