Tube thermal transfer printer machine

摘要

A thermal transfer printer passing a long soft tube ( 5 ) and an ink ribbon ( 4 ) between a platen roller ( 2 ) rotatably provided at a printer main body ( 1 ) and a printing head ( 3 ) arranged opposedly to the platen roller ( 2 ) and printing a character by thermal transcription from the printing head ( 3 ) to the tube ( 5 ), in which a hard wrapping roller ( 8 ) is rotatably arranged upstream from the printing head ( 3 ) and opposedly to the platen roller ( 2 ) and a character is printed by deforming the tube ( 5 ) between the platen roller ( 2 ) and the wrapping roller ( 8 ) such that a portion thereof brought into contact with the wrapping roller ( 8 ) is constituted by a planer shape.