Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-Kaisha

Kazumi Kanda

Hideo Ueno

Chitoshi Ito

Akihiro Sawada

Shiro Yamada

Shoji Sakuragi

Masaharu Mori

Hironori Harada

Kazuhisa Hirono

Sachiyo Nakahigashi

Mayumi Nishio

Sachiko Nakagawa

In an inventive method of driving a thermal head including heating resistors corresponding to a line of dots, the heating resistors are grouped into blocks consisting of the same number of heating resistors. After producing main printing data for one line of printing, such blocks where the ratio of the number of heating resistors in which the printing data is inputted to the number of all the heating resistors in each block is smaller than a preset ratio, are detected as target blocks. Then, auxiliary printing data for preheating such heating resistors in each target block to which the main printing data is inputted, is produced. When the total number of the heating resistors in all the blocks to which the main printing data is inputted is larger than a preset number, the auxiliary strobe signal is inputted to the heating resistors to preheat the heating resistors in the target blocks. By this preheating, the shortage of energy due to voltage drop of a power source will be compensated.

Method of and system for driving thermal head including a plurality of

Disclosed is the tape printer 1 in which the embellishment having the outline portion and the blank portion such as the bag form, bag form with shadow or stereo form is set to the character input through the character 5 on the keyboard 3 (S9, S55), and 'print color 1' and 'print color 2' are set to the character by numeral (S55), and further the character is printed on the print tape 100 through the thermal printing mechanism PM, thereby the outline portion of the embellished character is printed with 'print color 1' and the blank portion is printed with 'print color 2'.

Printing apparatus capable of printing character having embellishment

When a label name is selected, a plurality of prompt associated with the selected label name are displayed one after the other on a display so that a user can easily know what text data needs to be inputted. The text memory stores text data inputted as prompted by each of the plurality of prompts associated with the selected label name. Also the text memory retrieves, from a registration layout information memory, print layout information for printing the inputted text data. The print mechanism prints the text data stored in the text memory on a tape based on the print layout information. In this way, a label printed with the text data, that can be adhered to the binding of files and the like, can be produced quickly and easily.

Tape-shaped label producing device having input instructing messages

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Nishikasugai-gun, Japan

Kazumi Kanda