THERMAL PLATEMAKING APPARATUS AND THERMAL RECORDER

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve problems of a difficulty of grasping a remaining life by merely obtaining the number of used master plates as information of using a thermal head by a user by discarding even without fault of a thermal head or no problem of a lifetime without considering recycling without managing except observing the number of times of platemaking as a management of the lifetime of the head. SOLUTION: In the thermal platemaking apparatus 10 having a thermal head 1 for thermally platemaking on a master 12, a characteristic value detecting means for detecting accumulating number of printing at each heating element accumulated at each element as characteristic value of a thermal head lifetime relating factor for giving an influence to the lifetime of the head 1 has a number-of-accumulating real heating element printing detecting means 6 for detecting the number of accumulated real applying pulses of the heating element corresponding to the number of real accumulating applying pulses corresponding to the number of real accumulating printing times of the each element.