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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 11, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kazuyuki Miyaki, Ichinomiya, JP;
Assignee:
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 1/502 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 1/502 ;
Abstract
A tape printer is presented to improve the print quality of a border portion between print areas. Dots, which are smaller in area than dots printed in a previous print area, are printed after being shifted by &agr; (1.0 dot) in the X direction from dots printed in an overlap area. Accordingly, even if the dots are printed slightly out of position, high-density overlap portions, where dots overlap with each other, and/or paper surface-exposed portions, where dots are away from each other, are not produced greatly or distributed unevenly.