Seiko Epson Corporation

King Jim Co., Ltd.

Other

Hiroyasu Kurashina

Takanobu Kameda

Kenji Watanabe

Tomoyuki Shimmura

Takeshi Hosokawa

Chieko Aida

Yoshiya Toyosawa

Seiji Tanaka

Takayuki Uehara

Junichi Kikuchi

Hitoshi Hayama

Makoto Takada

Tomoyuki Ichikawa

Kenichi Tanabe

Shinji Ishizuka

Tomoko Obata

Minoru Nagata

A print system includes a paper feed device; a print device which has a platen roller and a print head and inserts the fed paper and an ink ribbon at a head position between the platen roller and the print head to perform printing; a disjunction device which relatively moves the platen roller with respect to the print head between a contact position where the platen roller contacts and a separation position where the platen roller is away therefrom; a non-print section acquiring device which acquires non-print section data of a character image in a feed direction of the paper from print data; and a print control device which controls the devices. The print control device relatively moves the platen roller to the separation position during a non-print section of the fed paper passes through the print head, based on the non-print section data.

Print system, paper printer, and method of controlling print system

A label data processing apparatus including: a label data storage unit configured to store one or more label data for printing a label; and a display unit configured to switch and display, per label, an editing screen including at least a portion of text data included in each label data, as a selection candidate for the label data.

Label data processing apparatus and label data processing method

Provided herein is a character processing device that converts an input character formed of an input alphanumeric or symbol to an extended Latin character similar to the input character including: a display unit displaying as an editing character the input character with a cursor attached thereto; a conversion target distinction unit discerning whether or not the editing character is convertible to the extended Latin character; and a notification unit indicating that the editing character is convertible to the extended Latin character when the editing character is regarded as convertible.

Character processing device, character distinction method and computer program

Provided herein is a cable label forming apparatus having an edit screen display device, a selection candidate display instructing device, and a selection candidate display device. The selection candidate display device displays a last selected candidate among the plurality of selection candidates on a priority basis in a normal edit screen when displaying the plurality of selection candidates is instructed, and displays a specific candidate among the plurality of selection candidates on a priority basis in a cable label forming edit screen when displaying the plurality of selection candidates is instructed.

Cable label forming apparatus, tape printing apparatus, method of forming cable label for cable label forming apparatus and program

An embossing control method used in a braille-embossing apparatus includes an embossing head that embosses a braille string on a tape fed along a tape-conveying path, the braille string being embossed in an area biased to one of upper and lower sides of the tape along the width of the tape without changing the upper and lower direction of the braille string. The embossing control method includes the steps of designating the area biased to one of the upper and lower sides of the tape along the width of the tape as a braille-embossing area in which braille embossing is to be performed and embossing the braille string in the designated braille-embossing area.

Embossing control method, program, braille-embossing apparatus, and character-information-processing apparatus

A printer specifies at least one arbitrary option out of a plurality of options displayed on a display screen as a tentative option, determines the tentative option as a determined option (determinate option), and performs printing based on the determinate option. When a handling explanation is requested before the determination, display is switched to display of the handling explanation from option display. A user can therefore easily and quickly view the handling explanation at once during operations.

Printing apparatus and method of displaying explanations of printing apparatus

In a character-information processing method, a candidate alternative having relative positional information including at least the front-and-rear relation of ink-characters and braille, which are printed and embossed, respectively, on the same sheet, is stored as one of those alternatives for setting margins capable of being set as margins of the Braille. When the candidate alternative is selected from among those alternatives for margins, the ink characters and the braille are arranged based on the relative positional information.

Character-information processing method, character-information processing apparatus, program, and storage medium

A printing tape has a translucent recording-tape layer with a recording surface on a face thereof, and a translucent pseudo-laminating layer adhered to a back of the recording-tape layer. The pseudo-laminating layer has an adhesive-agent layer on a face thereof and a translucent tape layer on a back thereof. The recording-tape layer has a print-recording piece whose face serves as a printing region and a cut-off piece to be peeled off from the adhesive-agent layer. The print-recording piece is separated from the cut-off piece by a long-side cutting line formed in a longitudinal direction of the recording surface. By inverting both the recording-tape layer and the pseudo-laminating layer inside out for adhering to an object of adhesion after removing the cut-off piece, the pseudo-laminating layer serves as a laminate tape for the recording surface.

Printing tape, tape cartridge provided therewith, and tape printing apparatus

In case where any one of longitudinal direction printing in which an arranging direction of character strings coincides with a longitudinal direction of a tape, and width direction printing in which the arranging direction coincides with a width direction, is selected and a print image having the character strings arranged therein is printed on the tape to produce a label, a size in the longitudinal direction of the tape which is made into a label is set as a label width in the width direction printing. Character strings for the width direction printing are inputted and arrangement widths of respective lines of the character strings are set. A print image is created and printed according to the arrangement widths and the tape is cut in accordance with the set label width, whereby a label is produced.

Tape printing apparatus, label producing method, data processing method for tape printing apparatus, printing system, label producing method for printing system, program, and storage medium

There are provided an image forming method and apparatus in which character string having one or more characters is registered as a regular character string, regular printing for printing the regular character string is instructed, irrespective of whether or not a character string other than the regular character string is being input or edited, and when regular printing is instructed, a regular character string image corresponding to the regular character string is printed as a print image. Irrespective of whether or not another character string is being edited, this construction enables the regular character string image of a registered regular character string to be printed at a desired time point through simple operations, while saving the capacity of the memory device.

Image printing method and apparatus

There is provided a tape printing apparatus in which characters to be printed on a recording face of a recording tape layer of a print tape are inputted, and a folding-line position of a pseudo-laminate layer of the print tape is defined. A print-width range on a recording face is defined based on the defined folding-line position to print the characters therein.

Tape printing apparatus and tape printing method

Before embossing raised letters on a target tape which is subjected to embossing of raised letters, written letters are printed based on inputted character information, and also an upside-and-downside identifying information for identifying the upside and the downside of the target tape as seen in the widthwise direction thereof is printed on the target tape. In the emboss-processing section, the upside and the downside of the target tape is detected based on the identifying information. If the target tape is found to have been inserted upside down, the raised letters are embossed in a state of turning the embossing data by 180 degrees.

Tape processing apparatus, method of processing tape in tape processing apparatus, and program

There is provided a method of controlling a tape processing apparatus where braille is embossed at one side in the width direction of a tape with an embossing unit arranged at the one side. The method includes: an embossing-position defining step of defining a braille embossing position in the width direction of the tape; an embossing-data generating step of generating embossing data based on input information and the embossing position; and a braille embossing step of embossing braille on the tape based on the generated embossing data. In the embossing-data generating step, when the embossing position is arranged at one side in the width direction on the same side as the embossing unit, the embossing data is generated for forward embossing. While, when the embossing position is arranged at the other side in the width direction opposite to the embossing unit, the embossing data is generated for reverse embossing.

Controlling a tape processing apparatus for embossing on a tape to be processed a recognizable braille and for printing ink characters

An image forming device defines a reference line count, determines whether or not the number of lines of basic character strings to be formed which is arranged in an edit image forming memory area exceeds in number any of one or more n-th predetermined line counts, and calculates an n-th post-omission line count for notifying omission of lines from each n-th predetermined line count which the number of characters strings is determined to exceed by inserting an n-th predetermined line overflow notifying character string indicative of an excess in line count over each n-th predetermined line count between an end of a line of the basic character strings immediately before the count of lines of the basic character strings exceeds the n-th post omission line count and a head of the following line.

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Matsumoto, Japan

Hiroyasu Kurashina