RECORDER AND METHOD FOR DISTINGUISHING CARTRIDGE MOUNTING STATE

Title:

RECORDER AND METHOD FOR DISTINGUISHING CARTRIDGE MOUNTING STATE

Document Type and Number:

Japanese Patent JP2006231717

Kind Code:

A

Abstract:

To distinguish a mounting state of a ribbon cartridge without providing an exclusive sensor and the like in a recorder constituted so that the ribbon cartridge can be mounted.

A dot impact printer 10 is configured so that the ribbon cartridge 50 storing an ink ribbon 51 can be mounted. The ribbon cartridge 50 is constituted to take up the ink ribbon 51 by holding the ink ribbon by a driving roller and a following roller. The dot impact printer 10 rotates the driving roller of the ribbon cartridge 50 by carrying out a distinguishing mode of the cartridge mounting state. At the same time, the dot impact printer 10 detects an operation state of the following roller and distinguishes the mounting state of the ribbon cartridge 50 on the basis of the operation state of the detected following roller.

Inventors:

KUMAZAKI MASAYUKI
SATO SHINJI
HASEGAWA EIICHI

Application Number:

JP2005049990A

Publication Date:

September 07, 2006

Filing Date:

February 25, 2005

Export Citation:

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Assignee:

SEIKO EPSON CORP
FUJITSU ISOTEC LTD

International Classes:

B41J35/36; B41J17/36; B41J29/38

Domestic Patent References:

JPS62182755U	1987-11-19
JPH06152838A	1994-05-31

Attorney, Agent or Firm:

Masayuki Kushibuchi
Kushibuchi Kazue

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