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US 2011/0299908 A1Published application
Tape printing system and input device
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYoshihiko SUGIMURA, Hajime Okochi
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Abstract
A tape printing system includes an input device, at least consisting of a key input unit and a display, and a printing device, consisting of a thermal head and a head driving circuit in separate from the input device. Further, there are plural kinds of key input units 1 and those or displays 2 so that plural kinds of tape printing systems 100 can be created by combining any one of the plural kinds of key input units and any one of plural kinds of displays.
Claims11
A tape printing system comprising:
- an input device that at least includes a key input unit consisting of plural keys and a display for indicating data inputted through the key input unit;
- and
- a printing device that includes a printing unit for printing print data inputted with the key input unit onto a long length of a printing medium, the printing device being installed separately from the input device,
- wherein the tape printing system is compatible with plural kinds of input devices and
- wherein each of the plural kinds of input devices is specified by a combination of one of plural kinds of key input units and one of plural kinds of displays, the plural kinds of key input units being classified by configuration of the plural keys and the plural kinds of displays being classified by display capacity thereof.
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An input device comprising
- a key input unit consisting of plural keys;
- a display for indicating data inputted through the key input unit;
- a printing device that includes a printing unit for printing print data inputted with the key input unit onto a long length of a printing medium, the printing device being installed separately from the input device,
- wherein the input device is applied to a tape printing system compatible with plural kinds of input devices,
- wherein the input device further comprises a print-data creating and editing unit that includes:
- a storage unit for storing an editing program that makes plural editing functions feasible when creating and editing the print data;
- and
- a control unit for executing the editing program stored in the storage unit, and
- wherein each of the plural kinds of input devices is specified by a combination of one of kinds of key input units, one of plural kinds of displays and one of plural kinds of editing programs, the plural kinds of key input units being classified by configuration of the plural keys, the plural kinds of displays being classified by display capacity thereof and the plural kinds of editing programs being classified by number of editing functions contained therein.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.