METHOD OF PREVENTING DUST FROM ADHERING TO INK RIBBON OF PRINTER AND PRINTER

摘要

The object of the present invention is to provide a thermal printer free of the unevenness of an image which is devised so that dust is prevented from adhering to an ink ribbon. In the thermal printer for generating a color image on recording material by a thermal head and others using an ink ribbon, the ink ribbon is automatically rewound by length within one image plane and kept on standby after printing is finished and at the time of next printing, the ink ribbon is automatically let out by the length formerly rewound and gets ready for printing.