Patent ID: 9434178
Filing Date: 2016-09-06
CPC Classification: B41J

Claim Text:
1. A thermal transfer printer comprising: a ribbon feeding roller configured to feed an ink ribbon including an ink layer on a base film; a ribbon winding roller configured to wind the ink ribbon fed from the ribbon feeding roller; a print head configured to heat the ink ribbon from a surface provided with no ink layer to selectively transfer the ink layer to paper; an input section configured to input the type of the ink ribbon; an ink ribbon driving table configured to store the magnitude of the tension to be applied to the ink ribbon between the ribbon feed in roller and the ribbon winding roller, in association with the type of the ink ribbon; a correction value table configured to correct the magnitude of the tension output by the ink ribbon driving table and be stored in the correction value table, in association with a width information of the ink ribbon; and a control section configured to control the magnitude of the tension to be applied to the ink ribbon to be equal to the magnitude of the tension corrected by the correction value table.