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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 1989
Filed:
Nov. 17, 1987
Yuichi Harada, Nagoya, JP;
Hajime Kumazawa, Ichinomiya, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Aichi, JP;
Abstract
A character erasable printing apparatus is designed to erase a character or an underline in plural times of erasing action by moving the printing head, and to print a character by a single printing action. Therefore, when an underlined character is erased together with its underline, and a correct character is printed together with an underline, the underline is interrupted. Disclosed are, to pervent such interruption of the underline, a character erasable printing apparatus capable of erasing only the character without erasing the underline when the underline mode is being set, a character erasable printing apparatus capable of erasing only the character without erasing the underline when erasing a character adjacent to an underlined character, and a character erasable printing apparatus capable of erasing the underline without moving the printing head when erasing an underline of a character adjacent to an underlined character.