Abstract: A label printing system according to the present invention includes a portable communication terminal and a label printing apparatus. The portable communication terminal includes a component kind selection unit for capturing at least one or more selected label component kinds, a content information capture unit for capturing content information in accordance with each component kind, a printing data creation unit for creating printing data based on each content information, and a terminal-side short-distance wireless communication unit for transmitting printing data by short-distance wireless communication. Also, the label printing apparatus includes a label printing unit for creating a label based on printing data received by short-distance wireless communication.

Abstract: Before embossing raised letters on a target tape which is subjected to embossing of raised letters, written letters are printed based on inputted character information, and also an upside-and-downside identifying information for identifying the upside and the downside of the target tape as seen in the widthwise direction thereof is printed on the target tape. In the emboss-processing section, the upside and the downside of the target tape is detected based on the identifying information. If the target tape is found to have been inserted upside down, the raised letters are embossed in a state of turning the embossing data by 180 degrees.

Abstract: A printing tape has a print-recording layer having a recording surface on a face thereof, and a transparent pseudo-laminating layer adhered to a back of the print-recording layer. The pseudo-laminating layer has a laminating adhesive-agent layer on a face thereof and a transparent tape layer on a back thereof, and is so arrange that the pseudo-laminating layer is reversed for adhesion to the face of the print-recording layer, thereby serving as a laminating tape for the recording surface. This printing tape is thus capable of laminating the print surface, after printing, with the printing tape itself.

Abstract: A printing/processing system includes a printing mechanism performing a printing operation on a processing sheet; a processing mechanism performing a processing operation on the printed processing sheet; and a memory device into which the printing mechanism writes information and from which the processing mechanism reads information. The printing mechanism includes an input unit for inputting printing information for performing the printing operation and processing information for allowing the processing mechanism to execute the processing operation; an information-writing unit that writes process data into the memory device in correspondence with process-specifying data provided for specifying the process data, the process data being a control program and/or control data based on the input processing information; and a printing unit that prints print data and the process-specifying data on the processing sheet, the print data corresponding to the input printing information.

Abstract: There is provided a method of controlling a tape processing apparatus where braille is embossed at one side in the width direction of a tape with an embossing unit arranged at the one side. The method includes: an embossing-position defining step of defining a braille embossing position in the width direction of the tape; an embossing-data generating step of generating embossing data based on input information and the embossing position; and a braille embossing step of embossing braille on the tape based on the generated embossing data. In the embossing-data generating step, when the embossing position is arranged at one side in the width direction on the same side as the embossing unit, the embossing data is generated for forward embossing. While, when the embossing position is arranged at the other side in the width direction opposite to the embossing unit, the embossing data is generated for reverse embossing.

Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus that applies a clip-out process of clipping out a desired character from a process sheet that configures a cutting sheet with a peeling sheet attached on a rear side, and a printing process of printing a pattern to a clip-out region of a clipping as a result of the clip-out process. The sheet processing apparatus includes: a clip-out device that clips out the character from the process sheet of the cutting sheet while feeding the cutting sheet in a direction opposite to normal based on the character; and a printing device that prints a pattern to the clip-out region of the character that is clipped out from the process sheet. In the sheet processing apparatus, the printing device prints the pattern to make the pattern go beyond a cutting line of the character.

Abstract: An embossing control method used in a braille-embossing apparatus includes an embossing head that embosses a braille string on a tape fed along a tape-conveying path, the braille string being embossed in an area biased to one of upper and lower sides of the tape along the width of the tape without changing the upper and lower direction of the braille string. The embossing control method includes the steps of designating the area biased to one of the upper and lower sides of the tape along the width of the tape as a braille-embossing area in which braille embossing is to be performed and embossing the braille string in the designated braille-embossing area.

Abstract: An image forming device defines a reference line count, determines whether or not the number of lines of basic character strings to be formed which is arranged in an edit image forming memory area exceeds in number any of one or more n-th predetermined line counts, and calculates an n-th post-omission line count for notifying omission of lines from each n-th predetermined line count which the number of characters strings is determined to exceed by inserting an n-th predetermined line overflow notifying character string indicative of an excess in line count over each n-th predetermined line count between an end of a line of the basic character strings immediately before the count of lines of the basic character strings exceeds the n-th post omission line count and a head of the following line.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a connection interface which connects the printing apparatus to a peripheral device such as a host computer. A connection object of the connection interface is detected, and a print mode is set to a normal print mode or a demonstration print mode. In the normal print mode, printing is performed based on print data received from the host computer, depending on the detected connection object. In the demonstration print mode, printing is performed based on demonstration print data which is stored in advance. The print mode is set to the normal print mode when the connection object is the host computer and to the demonstration print mode when the connection object is not the host computer or when there is no connection object.

Abstract: In a character-information processing method, a candidate alternative having relative positional information including at least the front-and-rear relation of ink-characters and braille, which are printed and embossed, respectively, on the same sheet, is stored as one of those alternatives for setting margins capable of being set as margins of the Braille. When the candidate alternative is selected from among those alternatives for margins, the ink characters and the braille are arranged based on the relative positional information.

Abstract: In a method of processing an image, a raised-letter image which visually represents a raised letter to be embossed on a target sheet material is displayed on a display screen in a scrolled manner.

Abstract: A printing tape has a translucent recording-tape layer with a recording surface on a face thereof, and a translucent pseudo-laminating layer adhered to a back of the recording-tape layer. The pseudo-laminating layer has an adhesive-agent layer on a face thereof and a translucent tape layer on a back thereof. The recording-tape layer has a print-recording piece whose face serves as a printing region and a cut-off piece to be peeled off from the adhesive-agent layer. The print-recording piece is separated from the cut-off piece by a long-side cutting line formed in a longitudinal direction of the recording surface. By inverting both the recording-tape layer and the pseudo-laminating layer inside out for adhering to an object of adhesion after removing the cut-off piece, the pseudo-laminating layer serves as a laminate tape for the recording surface.

Abstract: There is provided a method of controlling a tape processing apparatus where braille is embossed at one side in the width direction of a tape with an embossing unit arranged at the one side. The method includes: an embossing-position defining step of defining a braille embossing position in the width direction of the tape; an embossing-data generating step of generating embossing data based on input information and the embossing position; and a braille embossing step of embossing braille on the tape based on the generated embossing data. In the embossing-data generating step, when the embossing position is arranged at one side in the width direction on the same side as the embossing unit, the embossing data is generated for forward embossing. While, when the embossing position is arranged at the other side in the width direction opposite to the embossing unit, the embossing data is generated for reverse embossing.

Abstract: Before embossing raised letters on a target tape which is subjected to embossing of raised letters, written letters are printed based on inputted character information, and also an upside-and-downside identifying information for identifying the upside and the downside of the target tape as seen in the widthwise direction thereof is printed on the target tape. In the emboss-processing section, the upside and the downside of the target tape is detected based on the identifying information. If the target tape is found to have been inserted upside down, the raised letters are embossed in a state of turning the embossing data by 180 degrees.

Abstract: There is provided a tape printing apparatus in which characters to be printed on a recording face of a recording tape layer of a print tape are inputted, and a folding-line position of a pseudo-laminate layer of the print tape is defined. A print-width range on a recording face is defined based on the defined folding-line position to print the characters therein.

Abstract: In case where any one of longitudinal direction printing in which an arranging direction of character strings coincides with a longitudinal direction of a tape, and width direction printing in which the arranging direction coincides with a width direction, is selected and a print image having the character strings arranged therein is printed on the tape to produce a label, a size in the longitudinal direction of the tape which is made into a label is set as a label width in the width direction printing. Character strings for the width direction printing are inputted and arrangement widths of respective lines of the character strings are set. A print image is created and printed according to the arrangement widths and the tape is cut in accordance with the set label width, whereby a label is produced.

Abstract: In a method of processing a character in a tape printer, the tape printer has an editing storage area including an editing operation sub-area for editing an inputted character string and a registration sub-area for registering and saving a character string to be used later. The method is made up of a first step of securing a temporary area for temporarily storing a character string outside the editing storage area, a second step of storing a character string stored in the editing operation sub-area into the temporary area after the first step, a third step of storing a character string stored in the registration sub-area into the editing operation sub-area after the second step, a fourth step of storing the character string stored in the temporary area into the registration sub-area after the third step, and a fifth step of releasing the temporary area after the fourth step.

Abstract: A printer specifies at least one arbitrary option out of a plurality of options displayed on a display screen as a tentative option, determines the tentative option as a determined option (determinate option), and performs printing based on the determinate option. When a handling explanation is requested before the determination, display is switched to display of the handling explanation from option display. A user can therefore easily and quickly view the handling explanation at once during operations.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a connection interface which connects the printing apparatus to a peripheral device such as a host computer. A connection object of the connection interface is detected, and a print mode is set to a normal print mode or a demonstration print mode. In the normal print mode, printing is performed based on print data received from the host computer, depending on the detected connection object. In the demonstration print mode, printing is performed based on demonstration print data which is stored in advance. The print mode is set to the normal print mode when the connection object is the host computer and to the demonstration print mode when the connection object is not the host computer or when there is no connection object.

Abstract: A printing apparatus for printing characters on a printing tape for use as a label to be adhered to an article for adhesion has a display for displaying characters inputted into the printing apparatus, a printer for printing the inputted characters on the printing tape, an automatic setting device for automatically setting a print size of the characters according to a tape width of a loaded printing tape, and selection setting device for selectively setting the print size of the characters from among a plurality of print sizes determined in stages. The selection setting device has a fixed-size setting device capable of selectively setting a specific print size corresponding to a selected concrete article for adhesion.