Thermal printer for multi colour labels - has label carrying taps fed through two printing stations with different colours and sharing common print roller

摘要

The thermal printer has labels to be printed supplied on a roll (3). The tape is fed (4) around a roller (5) and through the printing station consisting of a print roller (6) and thermal head (10) that uses an ink ribbon (20). The label carrying tape passes around the print roller and crosses a second thermal print head (11) before being wound onto a receiving spool (7). The two print heads are used to provide different colours on a label. ADVANTAGE - Compact, high definition multi colour printing.