Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-Kaisha

Junya Kawai

Naoto Ito

Yoshitsugu Tomomatsu

Kentaro Murayama

Yukihiko Sato

Haruki Matsumoto

Harumitsu Inoue

Tomoki Miyashita

Shuhei Nohara

Yuichiro Suzuki

Naoki Tanjima

Keigo Kako

Yoshihiko Sugimura

Yuji Iida

Takehiko Inaba

Atsushi Kasugai

Hidekazu Ishii

Minako Ishida

Hajime Okochi

Nako Yoshimura

Zhi Yuan

Yoshiyuki Kaneno

A printing device is configured to perform a plurality of print cycles including a plurality of conveying periods and a plurality of printing periods. An N-th print cycle includes: selecting m number of conveying periods from among the plurality of conveying periods; setting one or more valid conveying periods; obtaining a first time duration by dividing a time duration corresponding to the m number of conveying periods into a plurality of time segments; adjusting a time duration of each of the one or more valid conveying periods using the first time duration; outputting a pulse in each of the one or more valid conveying periods to convey the printing medium in response to a motor being driven to rotate upon receipt of the pulse; and printing a portion of an object on the printing medium in each of the plurality of the printing periods.

Printing device repeatedly performing print cycle including a plurality of conveying periods and a plurality of printing periods

A printing apparatus configured to print a label image on a medium, the medium on which the label image is printed including: a first end which is an upstream end of a tail region in a conveyance direction that is one of first printing regions in which one first character is lastly printed; and a second end which is an upstream end of a tail character in the conveyance direction that is the most upstream one of second characters printed in a second printing region, and wherein a controller is configured to cause a cutter to cut the medium at a first cutting target position located upstream of the first end when the first end is located more upstream than the second end and at a second cutting target position located upstream of the second end when the second end is located more upstream than the first end.

Printing apparatus

A print control device includes a controller. The controller edits an image constituted by one or more objects including one or more upper objects, acquires an image area length, an image area width, a lower tape length, and a lower tape width, designates one upper object from among the one or more upper objects, and acquires an object area length, an object area width, and an upper tape width. In a case where a precondition is met for the designated upper object, the controller sets an orientation to a parallel orientation when a first condition or a third condition is met, and sets the orientation to an orthogonal orientation when a second condition or a fourth condition is met. The controller issues an error notification when the precondition is met but all of the first condition, the second condition, the third condition, and the fourth condition are not met.

Print control device performing print control for printing object on upper tape to be affixed to lower tape, and notifying of error when object meets precondition but does not meet all of prescribed conditions

A data generating apparatus includes a first storage storing a content having multiple regions, a second storage storing a parent-child relationship table, a first identifier configured to identify a target region, an updater configured to update the characters included in the target region, a changer configured to change the target region to a parent region corresponding to the target region when a carry occurs during updating, and a generator configured to generate print data of the content. The updater is configured to update the characters included in the changed target region, and the data generating apparatus further includes a second identifier configured to identify a deletion region, a first deleter configured to delete the deletion region from the content, and a second deleter configured to delete a parent region and a child region corresponding to the deletion region based on the parent-child relationship table of the deletion region.

Data generating apparatus, data generating method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium containing instructions for managing deletion of tape printing data based on parent-child relationship

An editing device includes an adjuster configured to, with respect to a specific one of adjustment methods for each of blocks, determine a reduction rate at which a character size specified by setting size information associated with the specific adjustment method is reduced when the setting size information is changed to size information specifying a character size one-level smaller than the setting size information, among a plurality of pieces of size information associated with the specific adjustment method for each block in adjustment information, identify, as a reference reduction rate, a smallest one of the determined reduction rates for the character sizes each specified by the setting size information associated with the specific adjustment method for a corresponding block, and adjust the character size of one or more characters in each block with a specific reduction rate equal or approximated to the identified reference reduction rate.

Editing device, method, and computer-readable medium for adjusting character sizes

An editing apparatus, including a display and a controller configured to: obtain a size of a printing medium; obtain a layout, with respect to the printing medium, of a print object to be printed on the printing medium; obtain a length of a circumference of an adherend to which the printing medium is to be stuck; and execute a display control process of displaying, on the display, the layout such that an overlap portion and a non-overlap portion of the printing medium are distinguishable, the overlap portion being a portion of the printing medium which is covered, when the printing medium is stuck along the circumference of the adherend in order from one end to the other end of the printing medium in its specific direction, by a portion of the printing medium including the other end, the non-overlap portion being a portion of the printing medium except the overlap portion.

Editing apparatus, non-transitory storage medium, and printing apparatus

A controller of a printing apparatus causes, in accordance with programs, the printing apparatus to obtain data and temporarily storing the received data in a buffer, create an image to be printed on a printing medium in accordance with the received data, obtain a receiving time period required to receive particular amount of data, obtain an image creating time period to create the image in accordance with the particular amount of data, obtain a total print length of a printing medium on which printing is executed in accordance with the data, calculate an amount of image which can be printed at a designated constant printing speed based on the receiving time period, the image creating time period and the total print length, and, when the calculated amount of image can be created, start a process of printing at the designated constant printing speed in accordance with the created image.

Printing apparatus for controlling start of printing process

A printing apparatus includes: a conveyor that conveys a medium including a base layer and a separation layer and including a first region, a second region, and a third region; a printer; and a controller. The controller is configured to control the printer to print a first mark on a portion of the medium in one of the first region and a first-region-side portion of the second region and to print a second mark on a portion of the medium in one of the third region and a third-region-side portion of the second region such that the first mark and the second mark are arranged in a line in the first direction.

Printing apparatus, medium, non-transitory storage medium storing instructions

A printing apparatus includes: a conveyor configured to convey a medium including a transparent base layer and a separation layer stacked on each other, the medium further including a printing background layer; a printer configured to print a character on the medium conveyed by the conveyor, wherein the medium on which the character is printed is a printed medium; and a controller configured to control the conveyor and the printer. The controller is configured to: obtain outside-diameter relating information relating to an outside diameter of a wrapped member; and based on the obtained outside-diameter relating information, set a character printable region in which the printer is allowed to print the character on the printing background layer.

A printer having multiple printing mechanisms has a printing device configured to execute a printing process to repetitively print a character defined for a page with one of the multiple printing mechanisms, and a controller. The controller is configured to determine, while the printing device is executing a first printing process which is the printing process for one page with use of the first printing mechanism, whether a first instruction to suspend the first printing process is received, print a page which is being printed when the first instruction is received to an end, and suspend the first printing process thereafter when the first instruction is received, determine whether a second instruction to start a second printing process with use of a second printing mechanism is received after the first printing process is suspended, and execute the second printing process when the second instruction is received.

Printing suspension control for a printer having multiple printing mechanisms

A printing apparatus, having a cassette, an attachable section, a printer, and a controller, is provided. The controller is configured to determine whether a medium remainder in a first cassette is equal to a predetermined amount; execute a reading action to read specific data from a first-typed memory device in the first cassette and store the specific data in a second-typed memory device, delete the specific data from the first-typed memory device in the first cassette; determine whether a second cassette being another cassette attached to the attachable section after execution of the reading action is a new cassette, in which the medium remainder is greater than the predetermined amount and in which the specific data is not stored in the first-typed memory device; and execute a writing action to write the specific data stored in the second-typed memory device to the first-typed memory device in the second cassette.

A printing apparatus includes: a conveyor that conveys a medium including a base layer and a separation layer and including a first through third regions; a printer; and a controller. The controller is configured to: obtain wrapping-manner information indicating (a) a first wrapping manner in which the second region and the third region are wrapped around a wrapped member after the first region and the third region are stuck to each other such that the printed medium is located around the wrapped member or (b) a second wrapping manner in which the second region and the third region are wrapped around the wrapped member after the first region is stuck to the wrapped member; and change control of the conveyor and the printer, depending upon whether the obtained wrapping-manner information indicates the first or second wrapping manner.

A printer includes a controller configured to execute a printed matter producing process including printing page images on a medium in a first position on a conveyance path while conveying the medium along the conveyance path, storing a cut target position for each page image and cutting the medium in a second position downstream of the first position in a conveyance direction when the cut target position reaches the second position, an interrupting process including interrupting the printed matter producing process and storing an uncut position as a cut target position located between the first and second positions when the printed matter producing process is interrupted, when an error occurs during the printed matter producing process, and a resuming process including resuming the printed matter producing process when the error is settled during the interruption of the printed matter producing process, and cutting the medium based on the uncut position.

Printer, and method and computer-readable medium for the same

The disclosure discloses a printer comprising a first control portion configured to control a feeder and a conducting device to perform printing on a recording medium. The first control portion executing a first processing, a second processing, and a third processing. In the first processing, printing on the recording medium is performed while feeding the recording medium to a forward direction, based on first print data. In the second processing, printing on a first predetermined section is performed while continuously feeding the recording medium to the forward direction, based on second print data, triggered by receipt of a print stop instruction in the middle of the first processing. In the third processing, feeding the recording medium to a reverse direction is performed and, with current conduction to the heating elements stopped, making the heating elements face the first predetermined section for a first predetermined amount of time.

Printer

A printer includes a controller configured to perform a through-up printing process to print at least a part of a page while accelerating a conveyance speed of a print medium from zero at a particular acceleration, a constant-speed printing process to print at least a part of the page while maintaining a maximum conveyance speed after the conveyance speed reaches the maximum conveyance speed via the through-up printing process, a through-down printing process to print at least a part of the page while decelerating the conveyance speed at a particular deceleration after performing at least one of the through-up printing process and the constant-speed printing process, and a maximum speed setting process to set the maximum conveyance speed in accordance with a print amount of print data stored in a storage.

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Kiyosu, Japan

Junya Kawai