Recording Head Control Method And Dot Impact Printer

Abstract: A recording head control method prevents head coil burnout caused by heat output while suppressing a drop in printer throughput. A control method for a recording head 18 of a dot impact printer 100 that prints information on a recording medium S by driving the recording wires 9 of a recording head 18 that has a plurality of recording wires 9 while a carriage 19 that carries the recording head 18 traverses the recording medium S, each of the recording wires 9 being allocated to printing one dot line in the scanning direction of the carriage 19, the control method including steps of: during dot line printing, determining before printing if the number of previously defined specific dot patterns P1, P2 contained in the dot line to be printed is greater than or equal to a reference number N of 2 or more; and printing the dot line based on the result of the decision.

Patent Information

Application #

Filing Date

19 November 2010

Publication Number

40/2013

Publication Type

INA

Invention Field

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Status

Email

Parent Application

Applicants

SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION

4-1, NISHISHINJUKU 2 - CHOME, SHINJUKU-KU, TOKYO 163 - 0811, JAPAN,

Inventors

1. YAMADA, TAKEFUMI

C/O SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, 3-5, OWA 3 - CHOME, SUWA-SHI, NAGANO 392 - 8502, JAPAN,

Specification

Documents

Application Documents

#	Name	Date
1	2767-DEL-2010-Form-18-(22-11-2010).pdf	2010-11-22
2	2767-DEL-2010-Correspondence-Others-(22-11-2010).pdf	2010-11-22
3	2767-del-2010-Form-3-(04-02-2011).pdf	2011-02-04
4	2767-del-2010-Correspondence-others-(04-02-2011).pdf	2011-02-04
5	2767-del-2010-GPA-(15-02-2011).pdf	2011-02-15
6	2767-del-2010-Correspondence-Others-(15-02-2011).pdf	2011-02-15
7	2767-DEL-2010-Form-3-(30-06-2011).pdf	2011-06-30
8	2767-DEL-2010-Correspondence Others-(30-06-2011).pdf	2011-06-30
9	2767-del-2010-form-5.pdf	2011-08-21
10	2767-del-2010-form-3.pdf	2011-08-21
11	2767-del-2010-form-2.pdf	2011-08-21
12	2767-del-2010-form-1.pdf	2011-08-21
13	2767-del-2010-drawings.pdf	2011-08-21
14	2767-del-2010-description (complete).pdf	2011-08-21
15	2767-del-2010-correspondence-others.pdf	2011-08-21
16	2767-del-2010-claims.pdf	2011-08-21
17	2767-del-2010-abstract.pdf	2011-08-21
18	2767-del-2010-Form-1-(12-02-2015).pdf	2015-02-12
19	2767-del-2010-Correspondance Others-(12-02-2015).pdf	2015-02-12
20	2767-DEL-2010-FER.pdf	2017-09-07
21	2767-DEL-2010-AbandonedLetter.pdf	2018-08-20

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