Tape-shaped label printing device having color range setting mea

Details Tape-shaped label printing device having color range setting mea Tape-shaped label printing device having color range setting mea

1997-10-29

1999-12-21

Evans, Arthur G.

395105, G06K 1500

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06006014&

ABSTRACT:
A tape-shaped label printing device for use with a plurality of freely detachably mountable ribbon cassettes each housing a different color ink ribbon for printing serially on a tape in a plurality of print colors, the label printing device including: an input unit for inputting characters, symbols, and a variety of commands; a data memory unit for storing input text data; a tape/ink ribbon movement mechanism for feeding in a feeding direction the tape and, in synchronization with the tape, an ink ribbon of a mounted one of the ribbon cassettes; a print unit including a print head for printing on the tape via the ink ribbon; a color range setting unit for setting, to text stored in the data memory unit, a printing target range for each of the print colors: print control unit for controlling drive of the tape/ribbon movement mechanism and the print unit to print, on the tape, each printing target range set by the color range setting unit; and an idle feed control unit for, after each printing target range set by the color range setting unit is printed, controlling drive of the tape/ribbon movement mechanism to feed the tape and the ink ribbon only a predetermined distance in the feed direction.

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