US 7,321,375 B2
Thermal printer, thermal printing method and thermosensitive recording material
Hiroyuki Otaka, Saitama (Japan); and Tetsuya Otsuka, Saitama (Japan)
Assigned to FUJIFILM Corporation, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Jul. 22, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/186,990.
Application 11/186990 is a division of application No. 10/688934, filed on Oct. 21, 2003, granted, now 7,061,516.
Claims priority of application No. 2002-305515 (JP), filed on Oct. 21, 2002; and application No. 2002-312052 (JP), filed on Oct. 28, 2002.
Prior Publication US 2005/0253919 A1, Nov. 17, 2005
Int. Cl. B41J 2/315 (2006.01); B41J 2/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 347—171  [347/194] 2 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A thermal printer, including a thermal head for recording an image on thermosensitive recording material by one line, said thermal head having a heating element array of plural heating elements arranged in one direction, for generating heat energy according to image data, said thermal printer comprising:
there being a recording material temperature sensor for measuring temperature of said recording material; and
a controller for controlling said heat energy of said heating elements according to said temperature,
wherein said recording material temperature sensor is disposed in said thermosensitive recording material.