Typewriting machines – Including control of format and selection of type-face by...
Utility Patent
1998-06-10
2001-01-02
Funk, Stephen R. (Department: 2854)
Typewriting machines
Including control of format and selection of type-face by...
C400S063000, C400S083000, C400S615200
Utility Patent
active
06168323
ABSTRACT:
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to a tape printing apparatus for printing print data, such as a desired character string, on a tape, and more particularly, to a tape printing apparatus having a function for arbitrarily setting a character attribute such as character size and a font.
BACKGROUND ART
There has been before provided a tape printing apparatus for printing data such as a desired character string (characters, signs and the like) on a tapelike print object. In this apparatus, a cassette case housing the tapelike print object is detachably mounted. Printing on the print object is performed by loading the cassette case in the tape printing apparatus. In the tape printing apparatus having such a structure, the size of characters to be printed is automatically changed according to the width of the tape in the set tape cassette as shown in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 3-72461.
As mentioned above, the latest tape printing apparatus automatically switches the size of characters by line according to the width of the printing tape housed in the set tape cassette, and therefore, it is impossible to imagine what a print on the printing tape will be like.
The present invention aims to solve such a problem, and an object of the present invention is to provide a tape printing apparatus which can set, with a few operation keys, a character attribute, such as a character size and a font, by paragraph or line and set the character size character by character in a line.
DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION
In order to achieve this object, a tape printing apparatus of the present invention comprises a character attribute setting means for changing an object, whose character attribute can be set, according to positional information from an input data position specifying means.
In the tape printing apparatus of the present invention which has the above structure, since settings in different areas, for example, change of character size over the whole line or character by character in the line, can be made with a single operation key based on a cursor position displayed on a display, operability of the tape printing apparatus can be enhanced drastically.
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Hayama Hitoshi
Watanabe Kenji
Funk Stephen R.
Hogan & Hartson LLP
Seiko Epson Corporation
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