Medicine bag printing apparatus

Abstract

A medicine bag printer exhibiting excellent carrying efficiency of a medicine bag in which distributing of the medicine bags for respective patients is facilitated. The medicine bag printer comprises a print unit (8) consisting of removable medicine bag cassettes (22a, 22b) each containing a plurality of medicine bags (14) and feeding the medicine bag (14) one by one, a print section (23) for printing medicine information and a medicine image on the medicine bag (14) being fed from the medicine bag cassette (22a, 22b), and a tray (24) for mounting the printed medicine bag (14) discharged from the print section (23) such that the forward end of the printed medicine bag (14) projects from the tray. The medicine bag printer further comprises a section (40) for grasping the forward end part of the medicine bag (14) mounted on the tray (24) of the print unit (8), and a section (39) for carrying out the medicine bag (14) grasped at the tip end thereof by the grasping section (40).

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