Tape printing apparatus

Details Tape printing apparatus Tape printing apparatus

1995-11-20

1998-09-22

Hilten, John S.

Typewriting machines

Including control of format and selection of type-face by...

400 63, 400 83, 4006152, B41J 500

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058104860

DESCRIPTION:

BRIEF SUMMARY
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.


BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a view of a flow chart showing a key input processing routine of a tape printer or writer representing an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is an outward view of the tape writer representing the embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a configuration view of a control circuit of the tape writer representing the embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 4,a,b and c is a view showing a display state of an LCD panel representing the embodiment of the present invention when the character size is set line by line, and a print result in the setting.
FIG. 5 a,b,c and d is a view showing a display state of the LCD panel representing the embodiment of the present invention when the character size is set character by character, and a print result in the setting.
FIG. 6 a,b,c,d and e is a view showing a display state of the LCD panel when character ornament is to be changed by a character attribute setting means, and a print result in the setting.
FIG. 7 a,b,c,d and e is a view showing a display state of the LCD panel when the type of a character font is to be changed by the character attribute setting means, and a print result in the setting.
FIG. 8 a,b,c,d,e,f and g is a view explaining the setting of character size line by line when the number of lines is two.
FIG. 9 a,b,c and d is a view explaining the setting of character size of characters from a cursor on.
FIG. 10 a,b,c and d is a view explaining the character size setting over the whole sentence.
FIG. 11 a,b,c and d is a view explaining the character size setting in a paragraph.
FIG. 12 a,b,c and d is a view explaining the setting of character size word by word.
FIG. 13 a and b view explaining an area in which the size is set.
Numerals respectively denote the following components.


BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION

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REFERENCES:
patent: 5382100 (1995-01-01), Sakuragi et al.
patent: 5562353 (1996-10-01), Handa et al.

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