Tape printing apparatus

Details Tape printing apparatus Tape printing apparatus

1997-04-11

2000-04-04

Hilten, John S.

Typewriting machines

Sheet or web

For feeding web record-medium

400 61, B41J 1126

Patent

active

060452773

ABSTRACT:
A tape printing apparatus selects one of a plurality of kinds of print formats as a designated print format. Characters entered are arranged to form a character string. Print image data is formed by editing the character string based on the designated print format. Printing is carried out on a recording medium in the form of a tape being fed, based on the print image data. The plurality of kinds of print formats include any of a print format for printing by arranging each character of the character string in a direction other than a longitudinal direction of the printing medium in the form of a tape, a print format for printing by arranging the each character of the character string in a predetermined printable area, and a print format for printing by arranging the character string or the each character of the character string in a plurality of locations, and a print format for printing by changing an orientation of the each character in a direction different from an orientation thereof set in the character string.

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