| 摘要 |
A ribbon (12) for a thermal printer (10) has a series of frames of different colors (38, 40, 42, 44) in a sequence that are correlated to the position of cards (24) to be printed. The ribbon (12) has indexing marks (58) for each frame (38, 40, 42, 44) and also indicators for each repeating sequence of frames (38, 40, 42, 44). The index marks are arranged in a line across the ribbon (12) and the marks can be coded to individually indicate the color or other characteristic of the frame associated with the line (58) of index mark. This information is received by a controller (22) to control various printer (10) functions.
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