| 摘要 |
PURPOSE:To enable a ribbon to be easily replaced without generating the deviation of printing position, by a method wherein, a carriage is brought to a stop so as to be movable in a width direction of a platen at the detection of the ribbon end of the film ribbon, and a printing position is stored so that the carriage can be returned to the printing position at the restart of the printing. CONSTITUTION:Simultaneously with the start of printing, a film ribbon 21 is taken up by a taken up reel 24 while coming into slide contact with a sensor 18. At the time that a ribbon end part of the film ribbon 21 passes through the sensor 18 made of an electrode, the sensor 18 is electrically conducted to detect the ribbon end. With the detection of the ribbon end, a CPU 31 stops the exitation of a carriage motor 17 through a motor control circuit 37 to stop a carriage 15 in a movable condition and stores a printing position, which had been calculated in a printing position calculation circuit 37a of the control circuit 37, into a printing position storage area 34a of a RAM 34. After the stop of carriage motor 17 and the storage of the printing position are completed, a printer is set in a printing stop condition and, then, a ribbon replacement can be carried out.
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