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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 16, 1999
Kenji Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;
Takanobu Kameda, Tokyo, JP;
Chieko Aida, Tokyo, JP;
Tomoyuki Shimmura, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshiya Toyosawa, Suwa, JP;
Hiroyasu Kurashina, Suwa, JP;
Takeshi Hosokawa, Suwa, JP;
King Jim Co., Ltd., , JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
A character string including one or more full-width characters and one or more half-width numerical characters is input and printed on a tape. The half-width characters are input by a symbol entering mode and have widths which are one-half the widths of ordinary characters. Two half-width numeric characters to be printed consecutively are developed in a font development area corresponding to that required for one full-width character so that the two half-width numeric characters can be handled as a single character.