Abstract: An information processing apparatus coupled to and configured to communicate with a tape printing apparatus which prints a printing image on a tape fed from a tape cartridge includes: an acquiring section that acquires cartridge information indicating a type of the tape cartridge attached to the tape printing apparatus; a determining section that determines whether or not a shrinkable tape is loaded in the tape cartridge in accordance with the cartridge information; and a printing control section that, when the determining section determines that the shrinkable tape is not loaded in the tape cartridge, causes the tape printing apparatus to print a normal printing image and, when the determining section determines that the shrinkable tape is loaded in the tape cartridge, causes the tape printing apparatus to print an enlarged printing image to be printed on the tape as an enlarged image of the normal printing image.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus coupled to and configured to communicate with a tape printing apparatus which prints a printing image on a tape fed from a tape cartridge includes: an acquiring section that acquires cartridge information indicating a type of the tape cartridge attached to the tape printing apparatus; a determining section that determines whether or not a shrinkable tape is loaded in the tape cartridge in accordance with the cartridge information; and a printing control section that, when the determining section determines that the shrinkable tape is not loaded in the tape cartridge, causes the tape printing apparatus to print a normal printing image and, when the determining section determines that the shrinkable tape is loaded in the tape cartridge, causes the tape printing apparatus to print an enlarged printing image to be printed on the tape as an enlarged image of the normal printing image.

Abstract: A thermal head control apparatus includes a plurality of head drivers including a plurality of switching circuits configured to on/off-drive a plurality of heating resistive elements provided in a thermal head. The thermal head and the plurality of head drivers are connected to connect the plurality of switching circuits and one heating resistive element.

Abstract: Printing using two colors can be performed by a thermal print head. A base member, a thermosensitive color developing material layer formed by applying a thermosensitive color developing material on the entire surface of the base member, and a thermosensitive decolorizing material layer formed by applying a thermosensitive decolorizing material having a decolorizing temperature different from a color developing temperature of the thermosensitive color developing material on the entire surface of the thermosensitive color developing material layer, are provided.

Abstract: Printing using two colors can be performed by a thermal print head. A base member, a thermosensitive color developing material layer formed by applying a thermosensitive color developing material on the entire surface of the base member, and a thermosensitive decolorizing material layer formed by applying a thermosensitive decolorizing material having a decolorizing temperature different from a color developing temperature of the thermosensitive color developing material on the entire surface of the thermosensitive color developing material layer, are provided.

Abstract: A printing device includes a labeling information forming unit which, on a print medium where a dot group is printed in advance, selectively turns a dot of the dot group into a non-display state and thereby forms labeling information including a dot pattern.

Abstract: A printing device includes a labeling information forming unit which, on a print medium where a dot group is printed in advance, selectively turns a dot of the dot group into a non-display state and thereby forms labeling information including a dot pattern.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes a light receiving section having a plurality of threshold voltage modulation pixel circuits each configured including a MOS transistor having a gate electrode connected to a supply terminal of a gate voltage of a vertical scanning circuit, and a source electrode connected to one end of each capacitor of a line memory group via a switching element, and a photodiode having an anode connected to a back-gate electrode of the MOS transistor and a cathode connected to a drain electrode thereof, and a buffer circuit having an input terminal connected to a supply line of a control voltage of the control voltage supply means adapted to supply the vertical scanning circuit with the control voltage, and an output terminal connected to the other end of each capacitor, and having a signal transfer characteristic the same as that of the pixel circuit.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes a light receiving section having a plurality of threshold voltage modulation pixel circuits each configured including a MOS transistor having a gate electrode connected to a supply terminal of a gate voltage of a vertical scanning circuit, and a source electrode connected to one end of each capacitor of a line memory group via a switching element, and a photodiode having an anode connected to a back-gate electrode of the MOS transistor and a cathode connected to a drain electrode thereof, and a buffer circuit having an input terminal connected to a supply line of a control voltage of the control voltage supply means adapted to supply the vertical scanning circuit with the control voltage, and an output terminal connected to the other end of each capacitor, and having a signal transfer characteristic the same as that of the pixel circuit.