Thermal printing method
View Patent ↗A method of generating a hard copy of an image, i.e. a medical image on a substantially rectangular heat sensitive recording material having rounded corners wherein image pixels of the image are printed in a printable area within the area of said recording material, the printable area being defined by a polygon with a degree higher than 4 which approximates the area of the recording material.
1. A thermal printing method of generating a hard copy of an image on a substantially rectangular heat sensitive recording material having rounded corners, the method comprising the steps of:
defining a printable area on the recording material that approximates dimensions of the recording material within a polygon having a degree higher than 4;
defining a transparent non-printable area of the recording material outside of the polygon shaped printable area; and
printing image pixels of said image in the printable area.
2. A method according to claim 1 further defining the printable polygon area having four sides which are parallel to four edges of the recording material and remaining sides that approximate a shape of the rounded corners.
3. A method according to claim 1 wherein said polygon is an octagon.