Abstract: A print data generation device includes a control unit that generates print data, and the control unit calculates a label length for a label to be printed on the basis of the first print data, acquires a maximum label length, generates first print data in a case in which a calculated label length, which is a label length that is calculated, does not exceed the maximum label length, and generates second print data, the label length of which is equivalent to the maximum label length, in a case in which the calculated label length exceeds the maximum label length.

Abstract: A label creation apparatus that creates a punch block label, on which a number of a plurality of terminals on a punch block having the plurality of terminals grouped into two or more groups are printed, includes head number designation units that designates a head number of a numerical sequence for each group, and numerical sequence print units that assign the numerical sequence numbers continuously from the designated head number to each terminal and print the numerical sequence for each group.

Abstract: A print data generation device includes a control unit that generates print data, and the control unit calculates a label length for a label to be printed on the basis of the first print data, acquires a maximum label length, generates first print data in a case in which a calculated label length, which is a label length that is calculated, does not exceed the maximum label length, and generates second print data, the label length of which is equivalent to the maximum label length, in a case in which the calculated label length exceeds the maximum label length.

Abstract: A label creation apparatus that creates a punch block label, on which a number of a plurality of terminals on a punch block having the plurality of terminals grouped into two or more groups are printed, includes head number designation units that designates a head number of a numerical sequence for each group, and numerical sequence print units that assign the numerical sequence numbers continuously from the designated head number to each terminal and print the numerical sequence for each group.

Abstract: A print control device includes: a first communication unit which communicates with a host device via a first communication standard; a second communication unit which communicates with a host device via a second communication standard that is different from the first communication standard; and a control unit which carries out communication control with the host device and print control, wherein the control unit turns a connection with the host device through the first communication unit into a disconnected state when data is received via the first communication standard during print control based on a print job received via the second communication standard.

Abstract: A label preparation device includes: an editing target switching unit which switches an editing target label among a plurality of labels arranged in particular order, in response to an operation on a keyboard; and an editing screen display unit which displays an editing screen including a preview image of the editing target label. If there is a label immediately preceding the editing target label in the order, the editing screen display unit displays a left arrow object on a forward end side of the preview image. If there is a label immediately following the editing target label in the order, the editing screen display unit displays a right arrow object on a rear end side of the preview image.

Abstract: A judgment device includes a residual capacity acquisition section adapted to obtain a remaining battery power of a battery as a power source of a printer, an arithmetic section adapted to calculate a predicted consuming capacity of the battery consumed by execution of a print job, and a judgment section adapted to judge whether or not the battery has the remaining battery power, with which the printer can complete the print job, based on the remaining battery power and the predicted consuming capacity.

Abstract: Disclosed is a tape printer including a feed portion, a feed path, a print portion, and a cut portion. The feed portion performs pre-print feed to feed a tape before a print process and post-print feed to feed the tape after the print process. In addition, the feed portion feeds the tape forward as the post-print feed such that the upstream-side end of an image printed on the tape is positioned on the downstream side of a cut position and the tape backward as the pre-print feed when the cut portion has not performed a cut operation after the post-print feed at the time of starting the following print process.

Abstract: A label preparation device includes: an editing target switching unit which switches an editing target label among a plurality of labels arranged in particular order, in response to an operation on a keyboard; and an editing screen display unit which displays an editing screen including a preview image of the editing target label. If there is a label immediately preceding the editing target label in the order, the editing screen display unit displays a left arrow object on a forward end side of the preview image. If there is a label immediately following the editing target label in the order, the editing screen display unit displays a right arrow object on a rear end side of the preview image.

Abstract: Disclosed is a tape printer including a feed portion, a feed path, a print portion, and a cut portion. The feed portion performs pre-print feed to feed a tape before a print process and post-print feed to feed the tape after the print process. In addition, the feed portion feeds the tape forward as the post-print feed such that the upstream-side end of an image printed on the tape is positioned on the downstream side of a cut position and the tape backward as the pre-print feed when the cut portion has not performed a cut operation after the post-print feed at the time of starting the following print process.

Abstract: A print control device includes: a first communication unit which communicates with a host device via a first communication standard; a second communication unit which communicates with a host device via a second communication standard that is different from the first communication standard; and a control unit which carries out communication control with the host device and print control, wherein the control unit turns a connection with the host device through the first communication unit into a disconnected state when data is received via the first communication standard during print control based on a print job received via the second communication standard.

Abstract: A driving apparatus including: a stepping motor configuring a drive source; an operating portion configured to reciprocate corresponding to forward and reverse rotations of the stepping motor; a home position detecting unit configured to detect a home position which corresponds to an outward movement starting position and a homeward movement terminating position of the operating portion; a homeward movement detecting unit configured to detect the driving amount of the stepping motor in a homeward movement of the operating portion from a start of the homeward movement of the operating portion driven by the stepping motor until a detection of the home position by the home position detecting unit; and an operation determining unit configured to determine that the operating portion is not operated normally when the driving amount detected by the homeward movement detecting unit is smaller than a predetermined driving amount.

Abstract: A tape printer having a large-size printing function of printing an enlarged printing image which is larger than the tape width of a long tape into a plurality of tape parts, includes: a tape width detecting section detecting the tape width; a layout determination section determining enlargement layout information for forming the enlarged printing image; a margin determining section determining the widths of an upper margin and a lower margin of the enlarged printing image and determining whether or not the sum of the determined margin widths is equal to or greater than the tape width; an image data generating section generating image data of the enlarged printing image; and a printing section sequentially printing, on two or more tape parts respectively, the image data of the enlarged printing image other than part of the upper margin and part of the lower margin.

Abstract: A documentation apparatus includes: a selection unit which selects one function item from plural function items associated with documentation and selects one choice from plural selects included in the selected function item; a memory unit which stores the function item selected last and a non-selection candidate other than the selection candidate selected in the function item; and a function execution unit which performs function corresponding to the stored non-selection candidate by predetermined operation of the selection unit.

Abstract: A document creating device capable of creating plural paragraphs, each including one or more lines, the paragraphs being arrayed in a left-right direction that is a direction of line, the device comprising: a new paragraph creating unit for creating a new paragraph when a right cursor key for shifting a character spacing to the right is pressed in the state where a cursor is placed on a final character in a final line of the paragraph.

Abstract: A tape printer having a large-size printing function of printing an enlarged printing image which is larger than the tape width of a long tape into a plurality of tape parts, includes: a tape width detecting section detecting the tape width; a layout determination section determining enlargement layout information for forming the enlarged printing image; a margin determining section determining the widths of an upper margin and a lower margin of the enlarged printing image and determining whether or not the sum of the determined margin widths is equal to or greater than the tape width; an image data generating section generating image data of the enlarged printing image; and a printing section sequentially printing, on two or more tape parts respectively, the image data of the enlarged printing image other than part of the upper margin and part of the lower margin.

Abstract: A tape printer having a large-size printing function of printing an enlarged printing image which is larger than the tape width of a long tape into a plurality of tape parts, includes: a tape width detecting section detecting the tape width; a layout determination section determining enlargement layout information for forming the enlarged printing image; a margin determining section determining the widths of an upper margin and a lower margin of the enlarged printing image in the tape width direction and determining whether or not each width is equal to or greater than the tape width; an image data generating section generating image data of the enlarged printing image; and a printing section sequentially printing, on two or more tape parts respectively, the image data of the enlarged printing image other than a tape part corresponding to a margin which is equal to or greater than the tape width.

Abstract: A documentation apparatus includes: a selection unit which selects one function item from plural function items associated with documentation and selects one choice from plural selects included in the selected function item; a memory unit which stores the function item selected last and a non-selection candidate other than the selection candidate selected in the function item; and a function execution unit which performs function corresponding to the stored non-selection candidate by predetermined operation of the selection unit.

Abstract: An improved head adjusting disk is disclosed which is adapted to be used for adjustment of the position of a head in a mechanism such as a floppy disk drive mechanism. On the improved head adjusting disk, two head position adjusting record tracks for adjustment of the position of a head are formed such that an outer circumferential edge of one of the record tracks and an inner circumferential edge of the other record track extend along a same circumference and that one of the two record tracks is formed to extend along a portion of one n'th (where n>1 and n=2) of the circumference while the other record track is formed to extend along the remaining (1-1/n) portion of the circumference, whereby individual signals reproduced from the two head position adjusting record tracks can be distinguished from each other by difference in duration thereof.

Abstract: A device for controlling a propagation direction of noise, which is preferably associated with a sound insulating wall to significantly improve its sound reducing effect of alleviating noise emitted from a noise source such as a railroad, highway and the like on which an electric car and automobiles run. The device comprises a hollow structural body composed of a plurality of elongated vertical hollow passages arranged at right angles to a substrate and spaced apart from each other by means of partition walls. The upper noise inlet side surface of the hollow passages face a propagation direction of noise emitted from the noise source and serve to refract and lag in phase the noise passed therethrough, thereby producing a sound reducing region located intermediate between a direct sound propagation and the refracted sound propagation. In one embodiment, a pair of hollow structural bodies are arranged in opposition to each other to form an arch type device.