RFID printer apparatus
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYasuhiko Mochida
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Abstract
According to one embodiment, an RFID tag or label printer apparatus includes a print head to print a pattern on the RFID tag, which includes an RFID chip at a predetermined mounting position. A processor is configured to receive the predetermined mounting position and label information including a print position for the pattern information to be printed on the RFID tag. The processor is configured to compare the predetermined mounting position to the print position and then control the print head to print the pattern information if the print position does not overlap a region through which the RFID chip passes when RFID tag is conveyed along a conveying direction past the print head for printing.
Claims20
A RFID tag printer apparatus, comprising:
- a print head to print a pattern on an RFID tag that includes an RFID chip at a predetermined mounting position within the RFID tag;
- and
- a processor configured to:
- receive the predetermined mounting position,
- receive label information including a print position for pattern information to be printed on the RFID tag, and
- compare the predetermined mounting position to the print position and control the print head to print the pattern information only if the print position does not overlap a region through which the RFID chip passes when RFID tag is conveyed along a conveying direction past the print head.
A RFID tag printer apparatus, comprising:
- a processor;
- a thermal print head to print a pattern on an RFID tag that includes an RFID chip at a predetermined mounting position within the RFID tag, wherein
- the thermal print head comprises a plurality of heating elements disposed along a direction intersecting a conveying direction of the RFID tag past the thermal print head, and
- the processor is configured to:
- receive the predetermined mounting position, and
- execute a dot missing check on the thermal print head by checking connection states of only those of the plurality of heating elements at positions outside a region through which the RFID chip passes when the RFID tag within the label is conveyed in the conveying direction past the thermal print head.
An RFID tag printer apparatus, comprising:
- a thermal print head;
- an RFID tag conveyor to convey an RFID tag along a conveying direction past the thermal print head, the RFID tag including an RFID chip at a predetermined mounting position, the RFID chip protruding outward in a direction orthogonal to a printable label surface of the RFID tag;
- and
- a controller configured to:
- receive the predetermined mounting position,
- receive label information, the label information including a print position for pattern information to be printed on the printable label surface of the RFID tag, and
- compare the predetermined mounting position to the print position and control the print head to print the pattern information only if the print position does not overlap a region through which the RFID chip passes when RFID tag is conveyed along a conveying direction past the thermal print head.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.