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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2003
Hironori Harada, Chiryu, JP;
Yoshihito Nonomura, Gifu, JP;
Hironori Harada, Chiryu, JP;
Yoshihito Nonomura, Gifu, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
A tape printer, wherein when a label tape () is fed to a tape cutting position after the label () of the label tape () is printed out, the heating elements (Rto Rn) of a thermal head () are disposed so as to be opposed to the position of a next printed label () slightly on the upstream side of a label head position on the downstream side of thereof in the feeding direction and to be opposed to the position of the next printed label () on the downstream side of the printing start position thereof (so that a<b can be established in), and a mark detection sensor ()is disposed on the upstream side of the heating elements (Rto Rn) so as to be opposed to the position slightly on the downstream side of the position opposed to a position detection mark (B) (so that c<e can be established in).