Intermittent type intelligent thermal transfer multi-head printer

Abstract

The invention relates to an intermittent type intelligent thermal transfer multi-head printer, in particular to an intermittent type intelligent thermal transfer multipoint printer which saves ink ribbons. The Intermittent type intelligent thermal transfer multipoint printer comprises a print head clamping device, a print head, a print head driving device, an ink ribbon transmission gear and a rack, wherein the print head and the ink ribbon transmission gear are controlled by a controller, the controller controls a print head travel motor and an ink ribbon transmission motor, and the print head is arranged in a slide rail of a rack. The invention has the advantages that: (1) an intelligent digital heat transfer print head, which can print document contents, such as graphics, bar codes, digital content and the like, is adopted, and a fixed metal matrix is not used; (2) one print head can be used for printing a plurality of documents of different locations; (3) users can be allowed to generate, edit and select documents on the controller; (4) the users can be allowed to freely set the printing interval and the print times of every cycle; (5) the length of the printed document can be automatically calculated; (6) the optimum print times can be automatically calculated according to the length of the document and the printing interval; and (7) the print head can move back and forth.

Description

Technical field [0001] The invention relates to a thermal transfer printer, in particular to an intermittent intelligent thermal transfer multi-head printer with ribbon saving. Background technique [0002] Commonly known printers are stylus, inkjet, and laser printing. The industrial printing field is generally mechanical coding machines (including hot stamping coding or thermal ink wheel coding, etc.) or ink jet coding machines, but you may not Note that in our surrounding environment, almost all products have labels printed using thermal transfer technology. For example, if you open a mobile phone case, you can see densely packed labels with barcodes inside, generally high-end packaging boxes All of the wheat heads have a product label sticker printed by thermal transfer, usually with a barcode. In addition, when buying clothing, the tags on the clothing are usually printed by thermal transfer printing. Train tickets, boarding passes, luggage tags, etc. purchased at the railw...

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Problems solved by technology

The ensuing problem is the coding problem of these single-machine multi-head packaging products. The coding method currently used in this packaging form is to use multiple printing devices and install them in misplaced positions for each product, which is easily affected by installation. The limitation of space will also greatly increase the cost of equipment purchase

Or use multiple side-by-side mechanical printing heads, fix a printing head at each product position, use the same hot stamping ribbon, calculate the number of times according to the fixed coding position after hot stamping, and roughly estimate the ribbon gap and printing times, Drag the ribbon directly, so that although some spare ribbons between the print heads can be used, the limitation of this coding method is that it can only print the content of fixed fonts, and the position of the print head is mechanically fixed, and it cannot automatically calculate each The distance between products, and because the ribbon is printed and dragged mechanically, the size of the take-up wheel cannot be calculated, which will lead to the more ribbon loaded on the take-up wheel, the larger the core, and the dragging of the ribbon The stroke of the motor is fixed, which will inevitably lead to longer and longer ribbon dragging each time, resulting in huge waste of ribbon

The above-mentioned printing methods are all printed by mechanical heating. All printed content is realized by installing metal fonts through fixed font installation blocks and heating and hot stamping. Users cannot change the direction of printing files, and can only Print font fixed content

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