Patent ID: 11912043
Assignee: ARMOR
Field: Textile and paper machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 10:
11. A method to print a substrate with a thermal transfer printing apparatus according to claim 1, the method comprising:
driving the ribbon on the coating zone at a first predetermined speed, and simultaneously;
driving the ribbon on the printing zone at a second speed, different from the first predetermined speed by:
driving the moving rollers of the pre-printing buffer to reduce a length of the ribbon from the coating device to the printhead and simultaneously driving the moving rollers of the post-printing buffer to increase a length of the ribbon from the printhead to the coating device, or
driving the moving rollers of the pre-printing buffer to increase a length of the ribbon from the coating device to the printhead and simultaneously driving the moving rollers of the post-printing buffer to reduce a length of the ribbon from the printhead to the coating device.