Label making apparatus
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTsutomu Kato, Tsuyoshi Nagae
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Abstract
A label making apparatus displays a copy print setting screen to make a user input a number of sets or labels to be copied, and determines whether or not a value stored in a total number of sets in a RAM is 1. After the determination, if the total number of sets is 1, the print format input process is terminated, and if the total number of sets is not 1, the user is made to select whether or not a numbering print is to be performed. Accordingly, the label making apparatus can print on a tape having a half cut line which extends in a tape longitudinal direction and makes a plurality of the labels which is narrower than the tape.
Claims11
A label making apparatus comprising:
- a printing device for printing print contents on a tape;
- a cutting device for cutting the printed tape to make a label;
- a label arrangement unit for setting an arrangement of the label on the tape by a predetermined arrangement rule;
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- a print control unit for controlling the printing device to print on the tape with the arrangement of the label set by the label arrangement unit,
- wherein the tape comprises a printed layer, an adhesive layer, and a separating layer, and also includes a half cut line which extends in a tape longitudinal direction across at least the printed layer to divide the tape into more than one tape area in a tape width direction, and
- the label making apparatus further comprises a number-of-labels setting unit for setting a number of labels to be priited,
- further wherein the label arrangement unit sets the arrangement of the number of labels, which has been set by the number-of-labels setting unit, in each of the tape areas divided with the half cut line so that the label making apparatus makes the number of labels being narrower than the tape.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.