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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2005
Christoph Kunde, Berlin, DE;
Christoph Kunde, Berlin, DE;
Francotyp-Postalia GmbH, , DE;
Abstract
In a method for activation of a print head operating according to the thermotransfer principle, the print head having a number of printing elements, in which the energy quantity to be supplied to a printing element is determined in a determination step, and the energy quantity is supplied to the printing element in a supply step in order to transfer ink from an ink carrier device associated with the print head onto a substrate associated with the ink carrier device. A print parameter set characteristic of the ink carrier device is read from a memory associated with the ink carrier device in a read step preceding the determination step and the energy quantity is determined in the determination step using at least the print parameter set.