Patent ID: 6923581

Claim:
A printer in which an ink ribbon and paper on said ink ribbon are carried between a print head and a platen, in a state such that said ink ribbon is pressed against said paper, for printing on said paper, comprising: a ribbon supply shaft which supports said ink ribbon supplied between said printing head and said platen; a ribbon winding shaft which winds said ink ribbon sent from said ribbon supply shaft; a driving motor which drives and rotates said ribbon winding shaft; a storage unit which stores a plurality of current patterns for the driving current of said driving motor, said patterns having been set in advance; a selection unit which selects any one of said plurality of current patterns; a control unit which drives said driving motor based on the current pattern selected with said selection unit; and a braking mechanism which adjusts the rotating resistance applied to said ribbon winding shaft; wherein the plurality of current patterns are set and stored in said storage unit in advance so that the tension applied to said ink ribbon, which is between said printing head and said winding shaft, is an approximate predetermined value in cooperation with said rotating resistance of said ribbon winding shaft, while said resistance is adjusted with said braking mechanism from the start to the end of ribbon winding.