Patent ID: 7104713

Claim:
A printer for a heat-sensitive adhesive sheet, comprising: a sheet housing unit for storing a heat-sensitive adhesive sheet with a sheet-like base material one side of which has a heat-sensitive adhesive layer formed thereon and the other side of which serves as a printable surface; pull-out rollers for pulling the heat-sensitive adhesive sheet out of the sheet housing unit to transport the sheet in a given direction; a cutter device placed downstream of the pull-out rollers and having cutting means which cuts the heat-sensitive adhesive sheet that has been transported by the pull-out rollers; a printing device placed downstream of the cutter device and having a thermal print head and a print platen roller, the thermal print head being provided to print letters or images on the printable surface of the heat-sensitive adhesive sheet, the print platen roller transporting the heat-sensitive adhesive sheet in the given direction; a thermal activation device placed downstream of the printing device and having a thermal-activation thermal head and a thermal activation platen roller, the thermal-activation thermal head heating the heat-sensitive adhesive layer, the thermal activation platen roller transporting the heat-sensitive adhesive sheet in the given direction; a sheet pooling portion placed between the cutter device and the printing device and having a space in which a given length of the heat-sensitive adhesive sheet is bowed; a first drive means for driving the pull-out rollers; a second drive means for driving the print platen roller; and a drive control device which can control the first drive means and the second drive means independently of each other.