METHOD AND MACHINE FOR CARD COLOUR PRINTING

摘要

A method for ribbon color thermal printing and/or encoding cards, particularly prepaid, smart cards, chip cards, and the like, by detecting the printing ribbon color (2), controlling the thermal printing energy feed (8) and driving the printing (3), encoding (1) and detection (2), in which the encoding (1) is carried out at a location upstream of the thermal printing (3), and the color detection (2) is carried out at a location between the encoding (1) and/or thermal printing (3), and at the same time as the printing.