Patent ID: 11951754
Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Textile and paper machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  Y | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A printer, comprising:
a thermal printhead including resistive heating elements;
a motor for conveying paper to the thermal printhead;
a power supply configured to supply power to the thermal printhead and the motor; and
a processor configured to cause the supply of power to the motor to be paused if the supply of power to the thermal printhead exceeds a power threshold value and then to resume the supply of power to the motor after a predetermined period of time elapses after the pause of the supply of power to the motor, wherein
the power threshold value is based on a number of energized resistive heating elements per a line of print data supplied to the thermal printhead for printing.