Seiko Epson Corporation

King Jim Co., Ltd.

Makoto Takada

Seiji Tanaka

Takayuki Uehara

Shoji Takayama

Hiroyasu Kurashina

Naofumi Hirabayashi

Junichi Kikuchi

Takanobu Kameda

Yoichi Hine

A display device which performs previewing of print data for printing an image on a tape including: a division data generating unit for dividing the print data into N parts and thus generates N division data (where N is an integer that is greater than or equal to 1); and a previewing unit for loading a target division data including a target area of the previewing, of the N division data, into a work area and sequentially reads out the division data from the work area, thus performing the previewing; wherein the division data generating unit decides a value of the N in accordance with a tape width of the tape and a tape length in the case where the print data is printed.

Display device, portable terminal, control method for display device, and program product

A printing system includes: a control device configures to generate print data; and a printer configured to print the print data transmitted from the control device on a tape, wherein the control device includes a status information acquisition section for periodically acquiring status information including a tape width of the tape loaded in the printer, a display section for displaying an editing screen of the print data and the status information, and a display control section for performing a display control of the display section, and the display control section performs display control of the display section to display a present tape width based on the latest status information acquired, as the status information, on the display section.

Printing system with periodic acquisition of tape width for displaying on display screen, print data generating device, method of controlling print data generating device and program product

A sticky note printing system has: a sticky note printer which prints on a topmost sticky note of a bundle of sticky notes formed by laminated sticky notes, of which one ends are glued to be peeled off each other; and an image forming apparatus which forms an image data to be printed on the sticky note. The sticky note printer prints on the sticky note based on the image data formed by the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus has an image forming device which forms the image data. The sticky note printer has an image rotation device which rotates the formed image data by a predetermined angle and a printing device which prints based on the image data rotated by the image rotation device.

Sticky note printing system and printer that prints based on rotated image data

There is provided an information processing apparatus previewing on a display screen ink-character information and braille information which are printed and embossed on the same process sheet, the apparatus including: an ink-character previewing device for previewing the ink-character information; a braille previewing device for previewing the braille information; and a preview switching device controlling the ink-character previewing device and the braille previewing device and capable of selectively switching a display mode among a display of only the ink-character information, that of only the braille information, and that of the ink-character information and the braille information when printing and embossing operations are performed in a manner in which the ink-character information and the braille information are at least partially overlapped with each other on the process sheet.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program

An information processing apparatus includes an input device which allows input of a plurality of information so as to allow performance of a plurality of processes, an input information display device that displays input information that is the input one or more kinds of information, a delete menu storage device that stores a delete menu having a plurality of delete options, and a delete menu display device that displays only delete options corresponding to the information input by the input device from among the plurality of delete options, as the delete menu.

Information processing apparatus, printing and embossing complex apparatus, delete menu display method of information processing apparatus and program

A data display method of a data display apparatus includes displaying a cursor for scrolling the preview display on an input character display region having an ink character region and a Braille character region while moving the displayed cursor; and previewing the label image on the basis of a cursor position of the cursor. The previewing of the label image previews the label image to display an image of the ink character indicated by the cursor positioned in a predetermined position of the preview region when the cursor is positioned on the ink character notation, and previews the label image to display an image of the Braille characters indicated by the cursor or an image of the Braille character corresponding to a translation of the Braille characters into the ink characters positioned in a predetermined position of the preview region when the cursor is positioned on the Braille character notation.

Data display method of data display apparatus, data display apparatus, data generation apparatus having the same, and sheet processing apparatus

There is provided a tape processing apparatus arranged to perform an ink-character printing and a braille embossing on a process tape, the apparatus including: a first demonstration device which performs a first demonstration process based on first demonstration data for demonstration of the ink-character printing; a second demonstration device which performs a second demonstration process based on second demonstration data for demonstration of the braille embossing; and a demonstration switching device which selectively switches between the first demonstration process and the second demonstration process.

Tape processing apparatus, method of conducting demonstration with tape processing apparatus, and program

A braille layout creation method includes the steps of sequentially reading information for braille embossing from a list file in which a plurality of pieces of information for braille embossing is listed, converting the read information into a braille pattern, and importing, for each reading of the information, the braille pattern into an object frame disposed in an image of a braille sheet on which a braille character is embossed.

Braille layout creation method, braille layout creation system, program, and recording medium

In displaying cell images of raised letters under editing on a display screen together with a notation character string corresponding to the cell images, the maximum continuous embossing amount that can be embossed on a single processing sheet when embossing the raised letters on the processing sheet, is predetermined. A continuous embossing amount of the raised letters is determined, and when the continuous embossing amount is in excess of the maximum continuous embossing amount, the excess cell images corresponding to the portion exceeding the maximum continuous embossing amount out of the cell images and the notation character string, or excess notation characters corresponding to the excess cell images are displayed so as to be distinguishable from the remaining portion.

Raised-letter information processing apparatus, raised-letter information processing method, program, and storage medium

A method controls a tape processing apparatus which performs, on a tape to be sent from a tape inlet to a tape outlet along a tape travel passage through an embossing section, a series of tape processing operations of incoming-feed operation to feed the tape from the tape inlet to the embossing section, embossing operation in the embossing section, and of outgoing-feed operation to feed the tape from the embossing section to the tape outlet in an order as mentioned above, and which also indicates in an indicator that the apparatus is in the tape processing operations. The method indicates in the indicator a pre-embossing feed indication to indicate the incoming-feed operation and a post-embossing feed indication to indicate the outgoing-feed operation in an indicating mode which is different from an embossing indication to indicate that the apparatus is in the embossing operation.

Method of controlling tape processing apparatus, apparatus for processing tape, and program

A data producing apparatus has: a first Braille translation device producing information processing Braille data for embossing information processing Braille on a processing sheet based on an ink-character array having one or more ink characters; a second Braille translation device producing general Braille data for embossing general Braille, other than the information processing Braille, on the processing sheet based on the ink-character array, thereby producing from the inputted ink-character array Braille data having the information processing Braille data and/or the general Braille data. A data producing method includes: when designation of producing part or all of the inputted ink-character array in information processing Braille is made, producing the information processing Braille data with the first Braille translation device for the designated portion; and when designation of producing in general Braille is made, producing the general Braille data with the second Braille translation device for the designated portion.

Data producing method of data producing apparatus, data producing apparatus, and sheet processing apparatus

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.

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Shiojiri, Japan

Makoto Takada