Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Sachiko Nakagawa

Hideo Ueno

Kazuhisa Hirono

Chitoshi Ito

Minako Ishida

Akihiko Niwa

Shiro Yamada

Akihiro Sawada

Shoji Sakuragi

Sachiyo Nakahigashi

Mizue Terai

Kazumi Kanda

Mayumi Nishio

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

A document processing device including a keyboard for inputting various data and instructions, a print mechanism for printing on a print medium dot pattern data which are developed in a print data buffer, a memory for storing input data of characters and symbols, and a controller for controlling the keyboard, a display and the print mechanism, a block indication unit for inputting, from the keyboard, block indication data which are indicated as a block for each array of plural characters and symbols at a data input time, and storing the block indication data into the memory with the data of the plural characters and symbols of the block, and a block border ruled line data preparing unit for calculating a block size for each block using the data of the memory, and developing the ruled line data of a rectangular block border into the print data buffer.

Document processing device having ruling function

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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Kariya, Japan

Sachiko Nakagawa