Tape printer

A tape printer, comprising:

• a tape cassette that comprises:
• a housing having a top surface, a bottom surface, a front surface and a pair of side surfaces;
• a tape that is a print medium mounted in the housing;
• a tape exit that discharges, from the housing, the tape guided in the housing along a predetermined feed path, at least a part of the feed path extending parallel to the front surface;
• and
• a type indicator portion that is provided adjacent to the tape exit and in a specified area of the front surface on an upstream side of the tape exit in a feed direction of the tape, the type indicator portion indicating a tape type of the tape,
• a cassette housing portion in which the tape cassette is detachably installed;
• a feeding device that feeds the tape along the path from the housing of the tape cassette installed in the cassette housing portion;
• a printing device that performs printing on the tape fed by the feeding device;
• a plurality of detecting switches that protrudes toward the front surface of the housing of the tape cassette installed in the cassette housing portion, and that detects identification information for identifying the tape type of the tape mounted in the housing;
• a table storage device that stores a tape type table in which identification information pieces are each associated with a tape type;
• and
• a tape type identifying device that identifies, with reference to the tape type table, the tape type associated with the identification information detected by the plurality of detecting switches as the tape type of the tape mounted in the housing,
• wherein:
• the type indicator portion includes a plurality of vertical information sections and an aperture formed in at least one of the plurality of vertical information sections, the plurality of vertical information sections being a plurality of strip-shaped sections extending along a direction orthogonal to the feed direction;
• and
• a part of the plurality of detecting switches that opposes a surface portion other than the aperture formed in the at least one of the plurality of vertical information sections of the tape cassette installed in the cassette housing portion is pressed to thereby detect information indicating a pressing state or non-pressing state of each of the plurality of detecting switches as the identification information.