Brother Industries, Ltd.

Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Takahiro Ogawa

Masahide Asano

Nobuyuki Iwai

Kazuhisa Tashima

Shinji Ukai

Hiroki Tabuchi

Tape printer

A printing device includes a housing, a printing head, and an input unit. The housing includes a cassette accommodating portion to which a tape cassette accommodating a roll of a printing tape is detachably attachable. The cassette accommodating portion has an insertion opening through which the tape cassette can be inserted in an insertion direction. The printing head includes heat-generating elements arrayed in a scanning direction crossing an imaginary plane perpendicular to the insertion direction. The housing has: a principal surface at which the input unit is provided; a side surface crossing the principal surface and the imaginary plane; and a discharge opening formed in the side surface. The insertion opening is positioned above the input unit. At the discharge opening, a normal direction of a printed surface of the printing tape and a normal direction of the principal surface define an interior angle of less than 45 degrees therebetween.

Printing device configured to discharge printing tape with printed surface thereof visible to user

Tape cassette for label printer

Label printer

Label printer cradle

Growing community of inventors

Nagoya, Japan

Takahiro Ogawa