Printing control method and device, printer and computer readable storage medium

Abstract

The invention discloses a printing control method and device, a printer and a computer readable storage medium. The method comprises the steps of obtaining printing data of a current printing line; according to the printing data, calculating to obtain the heating times of the current printing line; according to the heating times and the preset residence time of each heating time, calculating to obtain the preset total residence time of the current printing line; when the preset total residence time is greater than a preset time threshold, adjusting the residence time of at least one heating frequency, so that the sum of the residence time of all the adjusted heating frequencies is not greater than the time threshold; and controlling the printing of the current printing line according to the adjusted residence time of each heating frequency. When it is detected that the total retention time of the printing line is too long, the retention time of the heating times is properly shortened,so that the total retention time of the printing line in the current line is shortened, and the situation that a printing point and a thermal transfer ribbon adhere to each other due to the too long total retention time is avoided.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to the field of printers, in particular to a printing control method, device, printer and computer-readable storage medium. Background technique [0002] The thermal transfer printer realizes printing by controlling the heating of the heating element on the print head to transfer the toner on the ribbon to the printing medium. [0003] In order to ensure the printing quality, each heating element generally requires tens of milliamps of current, so when a printing line has a large number of printing points, if one-time printing is to be achieved, the power supply is required to provide a very large current output capability . In order to reduce costs, the printing control usually does not heat all the heating elements at once, but heats all the heating elements that need to be heated in stages, so as to reduce the current output requirements of the power supply, but correspondingly, it will increase the printing time. [...

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[0004] In some cases, when there are many printing points and need to be heated several times, the dwell time in the current printing line will be significantly increased, so that after the earlier heated heating element cools down, the melted coating on the ribbon will be solidified. Adhesion of the heating element and the carbon ribbon will cause printing compression, abnormal sound and other phenomena, which will affect the printing quality

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