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A printer for reducing the consumption of a ribbon at a printing completion section. A ribbon feeder feeds an ink ribbon so as to carry out printing during a period in which heat transfer is being effected on recording paper. Further, the ribbon is continuously fed to a blank area or portion existin

A printer for reducing the consumption of a ribbon at a printing completion section. A ribbon feeder feeds an ink ribbon so as to carry out printing during a period in which heat transfer is being effected on recording paper. Further, the ribbon is continuously fed to a blank area or portion existing in the printing to determine the printing. When a final portion detector detects a final area or portion to be printed during the continuation of feeding of the ribbon toward the blank portion or during a period in which the feeding of the ribbon to the blank portion is stopped to wait for recommencement of the printing, a difference calculator calculates a difference between a feed length of a ribbon required to determine the printing and a length of a ribbon fed toward a blank portion calculated by a blank feed length calculator. Further, the ribbon feeder continues to feed the ribbon by the calculated difference, to thereby fix printing characters subjected to the heat transfer onto the recording paper.

대표청구항 ▼

A printer, comprising: ribbon feeding means for feeding a ribbon; recording paper feeding means for feeding recording paper; printing means for maintaining the ribbon and the recording paper in contact during printing and for a predetermined distance after printing ceases to fix the printing; blank

A printer, comprising: ribbon feeding means for feeding a ribbon; recording paper feeding means for feeding recording paper; printing means for maintaining the ribbon and the recording paper in contact during printing and for a predetermined distance after printing ceases to fix the printing; blank space detecting means for detecting and creating a count of sequential blank spaces; wait determining means for determining when the count is greater than a predetermined value and stopping the ribbon feeding means and the recording paper feeding means at that point; action detecting means for detecting a one of a print space and an end of print portion; calculating means for calculating a further move distance after the wait determining means stops the ribbon feeding means and the recording paper feeding means at the stopping point, the further move distance being the distance between the predetermined distance and the predetermined value when the end of print portion is detected and the distance between the count and the predetermined distance when the print space is detected after the sequential blank spaces.