摘要 |
An optical printer head usable in an optical printer with a line light source and suitably utilizing an organic electroluminscence (EL) element and the like as its light-emitting element that includes a pixel array including pixels arranged two-dimensionally in row and column directions, each of the pixels including a light-emitting element, a memory array including memory cells arranged two-dimensionally in row and column directions for holding printing data input thereto, a horizontal scanning circuit for supplying a data signal to each memory cell column, a first vertical scanning circuit for sequentially selecting memory cell rows to write data to each memory cell, a circuit for arbitrarily selecting the memory cell rows to read data from each memory cell, a second vertical scanning circuit for sequentially selecting pixel rows, and a buffer located between the memory array and the pixel array.
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