Label printer and label printer control method
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKota Takahashi
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Abstract
According to one embodiment, a label printer for printing labels attached to a mount is provided. The label printer includes detection unit configured to detect a peel-off state of a label to be printed and a printing unit configured to control printing of labels on the mount according to the detected peel-off state of the label to be printed. When the detected peel-off state is total peel-off, the printing unit is configured to advance the mount to a next label on the mount, and when the detected peel-off state is partial peel-off, the printing unit is configured to not print on the label.
Claims20
A label printer for printing labels attached to a mount, comprising:
- a detection unit configured to detect a peel-off state of a label to be printed;
- and
- a printing unit configured to control printing of labels on the mount according to the detected peel-off state of the label to be printed, wherein
- if the detected peel-off state is total peel-off, the printing unit is configured to advance the mount to a next label on the mount, and
- if the detected peel-off state is partial peel-off, the printing unit is configured to not print on the label.
A label printer configured to print labels disposed in series on a continuous label mount, the label printer comprising:
- a detector configured to detect a peel-off state of a label to be printed;
- a print head for printing of labels on the mount;
- a printing control unit configured to control the printing of labels on the mount according to the detected peel-off state of the label to be printed, wherein
- if the detected peel-off state is total peel-off, the printing unit is configured to advance the mount to a next label on the mount, and
- if the detected peel-off state is partial peel-off, the printing unit is configured to not print on the label.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing therein a program, which when executed, causes a label printer to perform a method comprising:
- conveying a label mount having a plurality of labels thereon along a conveyance path adjacent in part to a print head;
- detecting a peel-off state of a label to be printed;
- advancing the label mount to a next label on the label mount when the detected peel-off state is total peel-off;
- and
- not printing on the label when the detected peel-off state is partial peel-off.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.