Printing device
AssigneeEsselte N.V.
InventorsMichel Woodman, David Roger Tegerdine, Clive Lawrence Ayling, Geoffrey Stuart Howe
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Abstract
A printing device for printing labels that includes a display; a user input means for inputting an image to be printed by the printing device and for selecting a required label length; and a control means operable to determine the length of the image input via the user input means, and if 10 the length of the image input is greater than the required label length, the control means is arranged to cause the display to display an error message indicating the difference between the length of the image and the required label length, which may be the minimum length of the inputted image, the difference between a preselected length and the minimum length of the inputted image, or both.
Claims31
A printing device for printing labels, the printing device comprising:
- a display;
- an input mechanism for inputting an image to be printed by the printing device and an input mechanism for selecting a label length;
- a controller operable to determine the length of the image input via the input mechanism, and if the length of the image input is greater than the selected label length, the controller causes the display to display an error message which includes a value indicating the difference between the length of the input image and the selected label length;
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- a printer for printing the input image onto a print medium in order to produce a label.
A printing device for printing labels comprising:
- a display;
- user input means for inputting an image to be printed by the printing device and for selecting a required label length;
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- control means operable to determine the length of the image input via the user input means, and if the length of the image input is greater than the required label length, the control means is arranged to cause the display to display an error message indicating the length of the input image.
A printing device for printing labels of a required length, comprising:
- a display;
- user input means for inputting an image to be printed by the printing device;
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- control means operable to determine the length of the image input via the user input means, and if the length of the image input is greater than the required label length, the control means is arranged to cause the display to display an error message indicating the difference between the length of the image and the required label length.
A method of printing labels using a printing device comprising the steps of:
- inputting an image to be printed by the printing device;
- displaying at least a portion of the image on a display;
- selecting a required label length;
- determining the length of the image input and, if the length of the image input is greater than the required label length, causing the display to display an error message indicating the difference between the length of the image and the required label length.
A method of printing labels of a required length using a printing device, comprising the steps of:
- determining the required length;
- inputting an image to be printed by the printing device;
- displaying the image on a display;
- determining the length of the image input and, if the length of the image input is greater than the required label length, causing the display to display an error message indicating the difference between the length of the image and the required label length.
A printing device for printing labels, the printing device comprising:
- a display;
- an input mechanism for inputting an image to be printed by the printing device and an input mechanism for selecting a label length;
- a controller operable to determine the length of the image input via the input mechanism, and if the length of the image input is greater than the selected label length, the controller causes the display to display an error message which includes a value indicating the difference between the length of the input image and the selected label length;
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- a printer for printing the input image onto a print medium in order to produce a label,
- wherein the image is input in discrete elements, and wherein each time an image element is input via the input mechanism a flag is set in the controller, and when there is a pause in inputting of image elements, the controller is adapted to determine the length of all the flagged image elements to determine the length of the portion of the image which has been input, and when the length of the image exceeds the selected length, the controller is adapted to make the error message be displayed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.