Thermal transfer printer and printing method using same |
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| 申请号 | US15515233 | 申请日 | 2015-09-17 | 公开(公告)号 | US09981481B2 | 公开(公告)日 | 2018-05-29 |
| 申请人 | CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD.; CITIZEN SYSTEMS JAPAN CO., LTD.; | 发明人 | Yutaka Inokuchi; Takeshi Yamazaki; | ||||
| 摘要 | Irregularities in the density that can occur in printed images of a thermal transfer printer due to mechanical variations or variations in thermal characteristics in the thermal head are more easily and accurately corrected as compared to cases not having the features of the disclosed invention. The thermal transfer printer includes a thermal head including heating elements and causing the heating elements to generate heat and transfer ink onto a sheet to print an image on the sheet, a storage unit for storing a first correspondence between a heating element in the thermal head and a correction amount of energy applied to the heating element and a second correspondence between a density of an image to be printed and an adjustment coefficient of the correction amount, and a control unit for correcting energy applied to each heating element by an amount obtained by multiplying the correction amount for the heating element obtained from the first correspondence by the adjustment coefficient obtained from the second correspondence according to a density of an image to be newly printed. The first correspondence is generated from a density distribution of a test image printed based on image data of a single tone. | ||||||
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