Multiple color recording apparatus

摘要

A multi-colored recording apparatus comprising a carriage disposed to be movable in the width direction and having a single wire hammer, a ribbon cassette having a plurality of different colored ribbons extending an effective width of the recording sheet, a driving mechanism for causing the ribbon cassette to rotate and bring one colored ribbon in position between the hammer and recording sheet for effecting recording and move the cassette away from the recording sheet after recording, wherein the recorded data is advantageously readily read without interference of the cassette with the reading, and display for displaying a bar graph for the analog signals as represented by the different colored ribbons, wherein the use of only a single hammer with the movable cassette containing the different colored ribbons extending the effective width of the recording sheet provides a compact and light apparatus.