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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2003
Takahisa Misawa, Tokyo, JP;
Takefumi Kobayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Takahisa Misawa, Tokyo, JP;
Takefumi Kobayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Max Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A thermal transfer printer passing a long soft tube () and an ink ribbon () between a platen roller () rotatably provided at a printer main body () and a printing head () arranged opposedly to the platen roller () and printing a character by thermal transcription from the printing head () to the tube (), in which a hard wrapping roller () is rotatably arranged upstream from the printing head () and opposedly to the platen roller () and a character is printed by deforming the tube () between the platen roller () and the wrapping roller () such that a portion thereof brought into contact with the wrapping roller () is constituted by a planer shape.