Printing apparatus capable of printing character having embellishment with blank portion
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHideo Ueno, Masaharu Mori, Chitoshi Ito, Kazumi Kanda
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Abstract
Disclosed is the tape printer 1 in which the embellishment having the outline portion and the blank portion such as the bag form, bag form with shadow or stereo form is set to the character input through the character 5 on the keyboard 3 (S9, S55), and "print color 1" and "print color 2" are set to the character by numeral (S55), and further the character is printed on the print tape 100 through the thermal printing mechanism PM, thereby the outline portion of the embellished character is printed with "print color 1" and the blank portion is printed with "print color 2".
Claims17
A printing apparatus comprising:
- input means for inputting character;
- embellishment means for selectively embellishing the character input by the input means in a first form that the character is embellished so as to have an outline portion and a blank portion;
- color set means for setting among various colors a first print color and a second print color to the character embellished by the embellishment means;
- first color judging means for judging whether both the first print color and the second print color are mutually set to the same color;
- prohibit means for prohibiting set of the second print color to the blank portion of the embellished character in the first form when it is judged by the first color judging means that both the first print color and the second print color are mutually set to the same color;
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- print means for printing the embellished character so that the outline portion is printed with the first print color and the blank portion is printed with the second print color.
A tape printing apparatus for preparing print tape on which character is printed, the tape printing apparatus comprising:
- input means for inputting the character;
- embellishment means for selectively embellishing the character input by the input means in a first form that the character is embellished so as to have an outline portion and a blank portion;
- color set means for setting among various colors a first print color and a second print color to the character embellished by the embellishment means;
- first color judging means for judging whether both the first print color and the second print color are mutually set to the same color;
- prohibit means for prohibiting set of the second print color to the blank portion of the embellished character in the first form when it is judged by the first color judging means that both the first print color and the second print color are mutually set to the same color;
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- thermal print mechanism for thermally printing the embellished character so that the outline portion is printed with the first print color and the blank portion is printed with the second print color on the print tape.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.