Printing system for boarding pass and/or baggage tag

Abstract

A printing system for a boarding pass and/or a baggage tag comprises an operating unit; a housing; a control unit in the housing receiving instructions from the operating unit; and two printing units in the housing controlled with the control unit. One printing unit includes: a roll of printing paper strip; a feeding mechanism for drawing out the paper strip; guide members for the strip; a dotting printer for printing characters on the strip; a cutting unit for cutting the strip after being printed; and an ejecting mechanism for ejecting the printed and cut printing paper strip as a boarding pass or a baggage tag from the housing. The other printing unit includes: a roll of a second printing paper strip, and a similar feeding mechanism, guide members, dotting printer, cutting unit, and an ejecting mechanism for ejecting the printed and cut second printing paper strip as a baggage tag from the housing. In addition, the other unit includes: a roll or an adhesive tape consisting of a tape base, and double-sided adhesive pieces and cover pieces, which are substantially equal to each other in size, and constituting adhesive members, and the adhesive members being attached at regular intervals on the tape base; a stripping member for stripping the adhesive members; a take-up mechanism for taking up the tape base from the tape roll; and an attaching mechanism. One of the adhesive members is stripped from the tape base by the stripping member, to be attached at the adhesive surface of the adhesive member to the back of the printed and cut printing strip as the baggage tage by the attaching mechanism when the tape base is intermittently taken up by the take-up mechanism.