Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Kengo Omura

Minako Ishida

Yasushi Kawakami

Kazuaki Koie

Sachiyo Nakahigashi

Kazuko Ishida

Hideo Ueno

Takashi Okumura

Shiro Yamada

Shoji Sakuragi

Masaharu Mori

Yasuyo Ooshio

A tape printing apparatus for making printed labels includes a keyboard for entering a character string, a display screen for displaying the character string, a tape cassette printer mechanism for printing the character string on the tape, a tape width detector for detecting the tape width of the tape cassette mounted on the printer mechanism, a first display data generator which generates pattern image data used to define the effective display zone of display screen that is proportional to the detected tape width, and a second display data generator which generates image data of the entered character string based on stored font data so that a print image of the character string in correct proportion to the tape width is displayed in the display zone.

Tape printing apparatus

After initialization (S1), the cassette signal is retrieved (S2). Then the tape width of the tape in the tape cassette mounted in the tape printer is determined by tape TB1 (S4). The width of the image display zone is calculated using the tape width and using the table TB5 (S7). The data of standard format information is stored in the start address of the text memory (S8). A text input screen is displayed set with the image display zone corresponding to the tape width calculated in S2 for the display. A cursor is also displayed having the size of the display character size, which was determined based on the print character size, which has been calculated using the tape width, the number of lines '1,' and the table TB3. Accordingly, it is possible to provide a grasp of the relation between tape width and the situation at which characters will be printed.

Tape printer having a display

A wordprocessing device having a keyboard which can input characters having a plurality of attributes. The character string can be modified when output such that all the characters have a common attribute, while the original character string data remains unmodified, stored in a memory, for further use. The modified character string can then be output by a printer onto a recording medium such as a tape.

Wordprocessing device

In a display device for a recording device, when the power supply of the recording device is switched on, a display lamp is lighted to display that power-on. When the recording device is operated, and recording information is input, a misoperation detection circuit detects misoperation. When a misoperation is detected, a controller controls the display lamp to indicate the misoperation. When a device-trouble is detected, such as lowering of voltage in the recording device, the controller controls the display lamp to indicate the misoperation. The display lamp displays for indicating device-trouble differs from both the display at power-on and the display indicating a misoperation.

Display device for a recording device capable of displaying a plurality

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