Patent ID: 8182161
Filing Date: 2012-05-22
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A dual-sided thermal printer to image a dual-sided media comprising a plurality of contiguous, alternating first and second thermally imageable panels distinguished by one or more associated sense marks, each of the imageable panels including first and second imageable sides, the printer comprising: a first print head positioned proximate to a first platen; a second print head positioned proximate to a second platen, the first print head being in a substantially opposed relation to the second platen and the second print head being in a substantially opposed relation to the first platen; and a microprocessor adapted to: determine a starting panel of the alternating first and second thermally imageable panels of the dual-sided media on which to start imaging one or more received pages of data; determine a starting side of the first and second imageable sides of the starting panel according to number of the one or more received pages of data; control advancement of the dual-sided media to the starting panel using at least one of the one or more associated sense marks; and control activation of the first print head and the second print head to image the dual-sided media with the one or more received pages of data starting at the determined starting side of the determined panel.