System and method for controlling label printing
AssigneeSeiko Instruments Inc.
InventorDong Yang
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Abstract
A printing system includes a portable terminal including a thermal head; and a host device configured to control label printing performed by the portable terminal. The host device includes a label generation module configured to generate the new label by adjusting, based on information relating to an object included in existing label data and a size of a new label, one or both of a position and a size of the object in the new label.
Claims12
A printing system, comprising:
- a portable terminal including a thermal head;
- and
- a host device connected to the portable terminal and configured to control label printing performed by the portable terminal,
- wherein the host device is configured to generate a new label by adjusting, based on information relating to a plurality of objects included in existing label data and a size of the new label, one or both of positions and sizes of the plurality of objects in the new label,
- the existing label data is applied to an existing label having a length and width different than a length and width of the new label,
- the information relating to the plurality of objects comprises position information of the plurality of objects in the existing label data,
- the existing label and the new label comprise a same number of objects, and
- relative positions of the objects in the new label are identical with or similar to relative positions of the objects in the existing label.
A host device for controlling label printing performed by a portable terminal including a thermal head, the host device being connected to the portable terminal and configured to generate a new label by adjusting, based on information relating to a plurality of objects included in existing label data and a size of the new label, one or both of positions and sizes of the plurality of objects in the new label,
- the existing label data being applied to an existing label having a length and width different than a length and width of the new label,
- the information relating to the plurality of objects comprising position information of the plurality of objects in the existing label data,
- the existing label and the new label comprising a same number of objects, and
- relative positions of the objects in the new label being identical with or similar to relative positions of the objects in the existing label.
A printing control method of controlling label printing performed by a portable terminal including a thermal head, the printing control method comprising generating a new label by adjusting, based on information relating to a plurality of objects included in existing label data and a size of the new label, one or both of positions and sizes of the plurality of objects in the new label,
- the existing label data being applied to an existing label having a size different than the size of the new label,
- the information relating to the plurality of objects comprising position information of the plurality of objects in the existing label data,
- the existing label and the new label comprising a same number of objects, and
- relative positions of the objects in the new label being identical with or similar to relative positions of the objects in the existing label.
A non-transitory machine-readable media, having instructions stored on the machine-readable media, the instructions configured to, when executed, cause a machine to:
- acquire information relating to a plurality of objects included in existing label data;
- acquire a size of a new label;
- and
- generate the new label by adjusting, based on the acquired information relating to the plurality of objects and the acquired size of the new label, one or both of positions and sizes of the plurality of objects in the new label,
- the existing label data being applied to an existing label having a size different than the size of the new label,
- the information relating to the plurality of objects comprising position information of the plurality of objects in the existing label data,
- the existing label and the new label comprising a same number of objects, and
- relative positions of the objects in the new label being identical with or similar to relative positions of the objects in the existing label.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.