Sublimating card printing apparatus and sublimating card printing method

• Main Author: MATSUZAKA, HIDEKI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 26.09.2007
• Subjects: BOOK COVERS; BOOKBINDING; CALCULATING; COMPUTING; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS; COUNTING; DEVICES FOR USE THEREWITH AND NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDEDFOR; FILES; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS; i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; LINING MACHINES; LOOSE LEAVES; MOVABLE-STRIP WRITING OR READING APPARATUS; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; PRESENTATION OF DATA; PRINTED MATTER CHARACTERISED BY IDENTIFICATION OR SECURITYFEATURES; PRINTED MATTER OF SPECIAL FORMAT OR STYLE NOTOTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PRINTING; RECOGNITION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS; SPECIAL PRINTED MATTER; STAMPS; TRANSPORTING; TYPEWRITERS

A sublimating card printing apparatus (1) can be minimized with a simple construction and can provide multiple functions. A sublimating card printing apparatus (1) for recording predetermined information in a magnetic recording medium and/or semiconductor memory provided on a card material (4) and moreover, for printing an image based on a supplied printing signal on a card material (4), comprises a rotary transporting means for switching a transporting direction of the card material rotatably provided on the last of a linear transport path on the card material, a card tray (26) for containing the card material through the rotary transporting means (6) in the case where errors occur in recording in a recording/reproducing means of the magnetic recording medium or a recording/reproducing means of a memory recording medium, and a memory recording/reproducing means (30) provided on the rotary transport path through the rotary transporting means (6). Therefore, the length of the transport path can be reduced and the card tray (26) can be contained in the apparatus and thus, the whole apparatus can be minimized with multiple functions.