| 摘要 |
A color thermal printer of a type which utilizes any one of ink ribbons of different color combination, which comprises a different identifiers provided on and peculiar to each of the different ink ribbons and descriptive of the color combination of the respective ink ribbon; and a detecting system cooperable with any one of the identifiers for detecting, and providing an output signal indicative of, one of the ink ribbons of different color combination which is actually mounted on the printer. The output signal from the detecting means is utilized to instruct the thermal printer that the ink ribbon of the particular color combination has actually been mounted on the printer. |
