Label creation apparatus and control method in label creation apparatus
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorShinsaku Kosuge
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Abstract
A label creation apparatus includes a control unit that controls, at a time of continuously creating a plurality of labels by a label creation unit, the label creation unit to resume the creation of the labels from an n-th label when determining a tape-end state in which a tape end of the tape has passed through a printing position based on a detection result of a detection unit in a tape-end detection period for the n-th label, the tape-end detection period for the n-th label indicating a period from a point at which an (n−1)-th label has been determined to be completed to a point at which the n-th label has been determined to be completed.
Claims6
A label creation apparatus that performs printing on a tape to create a label, the label creation apparatus comprising:
- a label creation unit having a print head and a driving unit, the print head performing printing on the tape at a printing position on a feeding path for the tape, the driving unit driving a platen roller that feeds the tape sandwiched between the print head and the platen roller at the printing position and a feeding unit that feeds the tape on a downstream side of the printing position on the feeding path;
- a detection unit that detects presence or absence of the tape at a detection position on the downstream side of the printing position on the feeding path;
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- a control unit that controls, at a time of continuously creating a plurality of the labels by the label creation unit, the label creation unit to resume the creation of the labels from an n-th label when determining a tape-end state in which a tape end of the tape has passed through the printing position based on a detection result of the detection unit in a tape-end detection period for the n-th label, the tape-end detection period for the n-th label indicating a period from a point at which an (n−1)-th label has been determined to be completed to a point at which the n-th label has been determined to be completed, wherein
- the control unit determines that the n-th label has been completed when the driving unit operates by a prescribed amount after an end of an operation of creating the n-th label by the label creation unit.
A control method in a label creation apparatus that performs printing on a tape to create a label,
- the label creation apparatus including a label creation unit having a print head and a driving unit, the print head performing printing on the tape at a printing position on a feeding path for the tape, the driving unit driving a platen roller that feeds the tape sandwiched between the print head and the platen roller at the printing position and a feeding unit that feeds the tape on a downstream side of the printing position on the feeding path, and
- a detection unit that detects presence or absence of the tape at a detection position on the downstream side of the printing position on the feeding path,
- the control method performing:
- a step of determining whether the tape has been put into a tape-end state based on a detection result of the detection unit in a tape-end detection period for an n-th label at a time of continuously creating a plurality of the labels by the label creation unit, the tape-end detection period for the n-th label indicating a period from a point at which an (n−1)-th label has been determined to be completed to a point at which the n-th label has been determined to be completed;
- a step of resuming the creation of the labels from the n-th label when the tape has been determined to be put into the tape-end state in the tape-end detection period for the n-th label;
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- a step of determining that the n-th label has been completed when the driving unit operates by a prescribed amount after an end of an operation of creating the n-th label by the label creation unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.