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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2007
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2006
Hitomi Hioki, Nagoya, JP;
Takeo Ito, Nagoya, JP;
Hitomi Hioki, Nagoya, JP;
Takeo Ito, Nagoya, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
A tape printer includes a detection device that detects a type of tape in a tape cassette, a print data storage device that stores print data, a print head that performs printing on the tape based on the print data stored in the print data storage device, a recycle mark storage device that stores recycle mark data to be printed on the tape, wherein the recycle mark data can indicate whether the tape can be recycled, a composition device that composes, if the tape is detected by the detection device to be recyclable tape, the recycle mark data stored in the recycle mark storage device with the print data stored in the print data storage device, and a print control device that controls the print head so that the print head performs printing based on composite.