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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2007
Filed:
Jun. 16, 2004
Winfried Vicktorius, Duisburg, DE;
Winfried Vicktorius, Duisburg, DE;
Espera-Werke GmbH, Duisburg, DE;
Abstract
The invention relates to a printing device for printing sheet elements () that are serially fed to the printing device, in particular product labels made of temperature-sensitive paper or paper substitute materials, comprising a feed device for feeding the sheet elements to a print head which acts on the sheet element, wherein the print head comprises a thermal slat () which is supported flexibly by a carrier device () such that between the thermal slat () and the deflection device () a counterpressure surface is formed at a predefined surface pressure on the sheet element () to be printed. The thermal slat () is associated with an adaptor means () that is exchangeable together with the thermal slat ().