Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Minako Ishida

Hideo Ueno

Shoji Sakuragi

Mitsuhiro Kanda

Yasunori Suzuki

Sachiyo Nagase

Satoru Moriyama

Chitoshi Ito

Akihiko Niwa

Yasushi Kawakami

Shiro Yamada

Shinya Goto

Kazuaki Koie

Sachiyo Nakahigashi

Kengo Omura

Mai Fukutani

Kentaro Murayama

Yukihiko Sato

Haruki Matsumoto

Junya Kawai

Yuichiro Suzuki

Harumitsu Inoue

Tomoki Miyashita

Naoki Tanjima

Akihiro Sawada

Masaharu Mori

Shuhei Nohara

Naruhito Muto

Naoto Ito

Takao Kato

Mizue Terai

Kazuko Ishida

Sachiko Nakagawa

Yasuyo Ooshio

Satomi Otsuka

Mikako Bito

An editing apparatus includes a processor and a memory. The processor performs processes. The processes include causing a print image to be displayed in a first area, and a mark and at least one portion of a target character string to be displayed in a second area. The processes include causing a selection image to be displayed in a third area. The processes include performing a first determination whether a corresponding block included in the print image overlaps with the selection image. The processes include causing the entire corresponding block to be displayed in a first residual area. The processes include performing a second determination whether the mark overlaps with the selection image. The processes include reducing a size of the target character string. The processes include causing the mark and at least one portion of a reduced character string to be displayed in a second residual area.

Editing apparatus

A printing apparatus includes a printer configured to print a character on a printing medium, a display including multiple individual display areas arranged in a particular order, and a controller. The controller is configured to display one of a character image and an icon on each of the multiple individual display areas, the character image being an image indicating the character, the icon corresponding to a control code indicating a process related to a print control of the character, and control printing performed by the printer based on a target code and a target character, the target code being a control code corresponding to the icons displayed in the individual display areas, the target characters being characters indicated by the character images displayed in the individual display areas.

Printing apparatus, method of controlling printing apparatus, and non-transitory recording medium containing computer-readable instructions therefor

An editing apparatus includes a processor and a memory configured to store computer-readable instructions. The computer-readable instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the editing apparatus to perform processes that include causing a mark and at least one portion of a character string to be displayed, causing a selection image to be displayed in a state in which the at least one portion of the character string and the mark are displayed, performing, in a case where the selection image is displayed, a determination whether the mark ceases to be displayed in an outer side of one of a left edge and a right edge of the selection image, and moving the at least one portion of the character string and the mark to a position where the mark is displayed in the outer side, in response to determining that the mark ceases to be displayed in the outer side.

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.

Printing apparatus

A tape printer including a data receiving portion, a display control portion, and a print control portion is provided. The data receiving portion is configured to receive talk data containing plural pieces of speech related data along a time series, the speech related data including speech display texts from each of a first speaker and a second speaker. The display control portion is configured to control the display device so that the plural pieces of speech related data is arrayed and displayed in order of the time series along a tape length direction, and first and second speech related data respectively in relation to the first and second speaker contained in the talk data are displayed in mutually different forms. The print control portion is configured to control a printing head to form a plurality of print objects corresponding respectively to the plural pieces of speech related data.

Tape printer for receiving talk data including speech related data and forming print objects corresponding to speech related data on tape

The disclosure discloses a printer including an operation device, a display device, and a controller. The controller executes a condition deciding process, a determining process, a first mode switching process, and a second mode switching process. In the condition deciding process, printable conditions in a length and a width direction are decided. In the determining process, it is determining whether contents after the edit operation satisfy the printable conditions. In the first mode switching process, the operation mode is switched from a real-time preview mode to a text input mode in the case that the printable conditions are not satisfied. In the second mode switching process, the operation mode is returned from the text input mode to the real-time preview mode in the case that the printable conditions are satisfied after the operation mode is switched to the text input mode.

Printer and recording medium

A print data generation apparatus generating print data to print texts on a print medium, includes a processor, and a memory configured to store a database having a plurality of records in which texts are respectively set for fields and associating the records with operation keys, template data in which at least arrangement positions of the texts to be printed on a print medium are set, link information associating the arrangement positions in the template data with the fields of the database, and computer-readable instructions that instruct the processor to execute steps including detecting operation of the operation keys, and generating, when it is detected that one of the operation keys has been operated, print data such that the texts that are respectively set, in the database, for the fields of the record that corresponds to the operated operation key are arranged in the arrangement positions associated with the fields.

Print data generation apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

A print data generation apparatus generating print data includes a processor, and a memory configured to store a database having a plurality of records in which texts are respectively set for fields, template data which is associated with one of operation keys and in which at least arrangement positions of the texts to be printed are set, link information associating arrangement positions in the template data with the fields of the database, and computer-readable instructions instructing the processor to execute steps including detecting operation of the operation keys, selecting, from among the plurality of records of the database, the record to be used for printing, and generating print data such that the texts that are respectively set for the fields of the selected record are arranged in the arrangement positions associated with the fields by link information, by using the template data corresponding to the operated operation key.

This disclosure discloses an RFID tag communication system comprising: a communication antenna that performs wireless communication using a plurality of communication formats with a plurality of types of RFID circuit elements, each of the RFID circuit elements having an IC circuit part configured to store information and a tag antenna configured to transmit and receive information, each type of the plurality of types of RFID circuit element having a different compatibility factor and lacking communication compatibility; a format switching portion that sequentially switches the plurality of communication formats in a switching order that corresponds to the frequency of use results of each of the plurality of communication formats used in the past; and an information acquisition portion that performs an acquisition process to acquire information by wireless communication from the RFID circuit elements using each of the communication formats that are sequentially switched by the format switching portion.

RFID tag communication system and RFID tag communication apparatus

A print data generation apparatus generates print data to be used for printing a print result including a plurality of lines on a tape-shaped print medium. The print data generation apparatus includes an input device that inputs a plurality of character strings for the plurality of lines to be printed on the print medium, a storage device that stores the plurality of character strings for the plurality of lines, and a print data generation device that generates the print data in which each of the plurality of character strings are repeatedly arranged in a predetermined character size defined for each of the plurality of lines and at predetermined spacing in each of the plurality of lines until the print result reaches a predetermined length.

Print data generation apparatus and computer-readable medium storing print data generation program

A two-dimensional code printing apparatus includes a computer device and a tape printer. A print frame is arranged on a label making work area on an edit display screen displayed on the computer device. A user inputs a text into a text box arranged on the print frame, and then highlights the text to be coded in a two-dimensional code by a mouse, and then one-clicks a two-dimensional code button. Herewith, the text and the two-dimensional code are displayed on the text box. If the user clicks a print button, a label on which both the text and the two-dimensional code printed is printed.

Two-dimentional code printing apparatus and method and tangible medium

For programs selected as those whose label is to be created, a list of available templates is displayed on a arrangement processing screentogether with contents of EPG information acquired from an EPG information DB. The EPG information is displayed on a left screenand the templates list is displayed on a right screen, so that one template desired to be applied is selected on the right screen, according to which template, one or a plurality of the EPG information pieces whose label is desired to be created is selected on the left screen. Templates, andconstitute a label set comprised of a plurality of labels, thus enabling creating labels by incorporating information pieces of specified items.

Label creating apparatus and label creating program recorded in computer-readable recording medium

A printing apparatus comprises input means for inputting various characters, design setting means for selecting a design pattern including a frame to be added around the characters and a background pattern to be added on a background of the characters thereby to emphasize the characters, memory means for storing ornament frame data of an ornament frame to be arranged in both ends of the frame and mask data of the ornament frame, first data producing means for producing first frame data on the frame selected by the design setting means, the first frame data having a predetermined area, and first background pattern data on the background pattern selected by the design setting means, the first background pattern data having a predetermined area, second data producing means for producing design data by generating second background pattern data by a logical multiply of the first background pattern data and the mask data of the ornament frame and arranging the second background pattern data within second frame data specified by the ornament frame data and the first frame data, character data arrangement means for arranging character data input by means of the input means in the design data, and printing means for printing the design data and character data.

Printer capable of printing a background in addition to text on a tape

After document data have been inputted by operating character keys, if an automatic setting key is operated to allow the print character size to be set automatically and a print key is then operated, printing process control is executed and the greatest character size printable on a tape mounted in the tape printing apparatus is set (S33), a base line position shifting process is performed so that the character is positioned around the center of the width of the tape (S34). Then, dot image data in the print character size that is set on the basis of the document data is generated (S31) and the dot image data is output to the printing mechanism to be printed on the tape (S32).

Tape printing apparatus

When a character key is operated, the apparatus reads display character size data for the inputted character, which corresponds to a selected print character size, in S40. Display dot pattern data corresponding to the starting character code in a text memory is then read out. The thus read out data is stored in the location designated by a display position pointer value of a display data buffer in S42. The print fullwidth data for the inputted character code is then read out in S43 so as to calculate the display fullwidth data for display in S44. The display fullwidth data is added to the display position pointer value to determine the next display position pointer value in S45. The display dot pattern data corresponding to the next character code is placed into the location designated by the next display position pointer value in S42.

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Nagoya, Japan

Minako Ishida