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Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2020

Filed:

Sep. 18, 2019
Applicant:

Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;

Inventor:

Hidekazu Ishii, Inazawa, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/1204 (2013.01); G06F 3/1243 (2013.01); G06F 3/1257 (2013.01); G06F 3/1258 (2013.01);
Abstract

A printing apparatus includes: a conveyor; a printing device; a first storage storing templates, in each of which objects are arranged on a printing medium; a voice input device; an output device; and a controller. The controller is configured to: accept designation of a particular template by voice; make an inquiry about a content of at least one particular character to be assigned to each of the objects in the particular template; accept the content of the at least one particular character to be assigned to each of the objects in response to the inquiry, by voice; and create print data for each of the objects based on character data created by character recognition of the voice indicating the accepted content and control the conveyor and the printing device to perform printing on the printing medium based on the created print data.


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