Bar code and text printer capable of displaying bar code location
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHideo Ueno, Akihiro Sawada, Chitoshi Ito
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Abstract
A bar code printer capable of printing bar codes simultaneously with character strings made of, for example, alphanumeric characters. Operating a bar code key causes a bar code input display to appear on a display and the bar code start code to be stored in a bar code buffer. Then operating a number key causes a number code representing the number to be stored in the bar code buffer and a dot pattern representing the number code to be output to a video RAM. Operating an execution key while a 13 digit number code is stored in the bar code buffer will additionally cause an end code to be stored in the bar code buffer and the resultant code string to be stored in a text memory.
Claims34
A printer for printing bar codes and characters on a tape, the printer comprising:
- input means for sequentially inputting data in a desired order, the data including character data and bar code data;
- storage means for sequentially storing the character data and the bar code data sequentially input by said input means;
- display means for displaying the bar code data using a predetermined mark in a proper position with respect to the character data based on the desired order;
- reading means for sequentially reading the character data and the bar code data stored in said storage means, wherein the reading means reads the character data and the bar code data in the desired order;
- converting means for converting the character data and the bar code data read from said storage means by the reading means into dot pattern data;
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- printing means for printing the dot pattern data on the tape in the desired order.
A method of using a printer for carrying out printing of bar codes and characters on a tape, the method comprising the steps of:
- sequentially inputting data in a desired order, the data including character data and bar code data;
- sequentially storing the sequentially input character data and bar code data;
- displaying the bar code data using a predetermined mark in a proper position with respect to the character data based on the desired order;
- sequentially reading the character data and the bar code data stored during the sequentially storing step, wherein the character data and the bar code data are read in the desired order;
- converting the read character data and bar code data into dot pattern data;
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- printing the dot pattern data on the tape in the desired order.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.