Abstract: To provide a printing system including an attaching device configured to attach a label on an adherend, and a printer connected to the attaching device and configured to operate in cooperation with the attaching device, in which the printer is configured to send a signal for indicating a state of the printer to the attaching device, and/or receive a signal for performing an operation of the printer from the attaching device, and the attaching device is configured to receive and display the signal for indicating the state of the printer, and/or receive an input of the signal for performing the operation of the printer and send the signal to the printer.

Abstract: A feed roller mechanism that feeds a continuous paper while nipping the continuous paper between a first roller and a second roller that face each other, the feed roller mechanism includes a plate-shaped first support member that supports the first roller, and a plate-shaped second support member that supports the first support member, wherein the first roller nips the continuous paper with the second roller by a deflection reaction force of the first support member.

Abstract: A printer that performs, based on print data, print on a plurality of labels included in a label continuous body, the printer includes a backfeed control unit configured to backfeed the label continuous body and move a leading label to a print start position, and a print control unit configured to acquire a print start command after the backfeed control unit starts the backfeed, and perform the print on the label moved to the print start position.

Abstract: The present invention is an information processor including: a storage configured to store information related to an area in which a user moves around; a position calculator configured to calculate, based on a transmission signal of a communication device that moves together with the user, positions in the area of the communication device with the lapse of time; and a measuring unit configured to measure time during which each of virtual points continuously exists in a region with movement of the user, each of the virtual points being defined at a point of intersection between virtual lines that are arranged in grid in the area, the region centering at each position that is calculated by the position calculator, wherein a size of the region is set to contain at least two of the virtual points.

Abstract: A printer includes: a controller configured to: acquire a plurality of radio wave strengths of a plurality of RFID signals, each RFID signal being from an RFID included in each of a plurality of printing media, set a threshold based on the acquired plurality of the radio wave strengths, and determine whether or not each RFID is normal based its respective radio wave strength and the set threshold.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention is an information processing device including: a storage configured to store information about a product and identification information of a radio tag that is attached to the product; and a control unit configured to, when receiving the identification information of the radio tag attached to the product, from a product recipient terminal held by a product recipient who obtains the product, associate information about the product recipient with the identification information of the radio tag. The control unit is further configured to, when the information about the product recipient is associated with the identification information of the radio tag, control so that the information about the product, which is stored in the storage, can be provided to the product recipient terminal.

Abstract: A label structure includes: a base material including a print area on which information arranged in a predetermined direction is printed on a front surface of the base material; an adhesive portion in which an adhesive is laminated on a back surface of the base material; and a separator configured to cover the adhesive portion. At least the print area of the base material is formed with a base material partition portion partitioned by a base material tear-off line, the base material partition portion includes a plurality of intersections extending in a direction intersecting with the predetermined direction, and the separator is formed with a separator partition portion partitioned by a separator tear-off line in an area corresponding to at least a part of an area corresponding to the base material partition portion.

Abstract: An RFID system (200) includes an RFID reader (202), an antenna array (204) and a length compensation unit (215). The RFID reader (202) is configured to interrogate RFID antennas. The antenna array (204) includes two or more RFID antennas (206) connectable to the RFID reader (202) via a series of cable links (208). Each RFID antenna (206) is associated with a respective cable link (208), and each cable link (208) has a cable length. The length compensation unit (215) is associated with each RFID antenna (206), and is configured to adjust a total cable length between the RFID reader (202) and a respective RFID antenna (206) to be an effective cable length.

Abstract: A printer configured to print on a printing medium having an RFID, comprising a communication unit configured to communicate with the RFID, and a search unit configured to move the communication unit to a position with respect to the RFID to search for a position communicable with the RFID, wherein the search unit determines communication success/failure between the RFID and the communication unit at a plurality of positions with respect to the RFID, and on the basis of a region including a plurality of positions determined as the communication being successful, identifying a communication position between the RFID and the communication unit.

Abstract: A printer, which is configured to print information on a print medium and issue the printed print medium, includes: a storage configured to store affixing position information relating to an affixing position in affixing the print medium to an item, in association with item information for identifying the item; a reception unit configured to receive input of the item information; an acquisition unit configured to acquire from the storage the affixing position information associated with the item information, based on the item information received by the reception unit; and a display control unit configured to cause a display unit to display the affixing position information that is acquired by the acquisition unit.

Abstract: The printer is a printer for printing on a label continuous body including a plurality of labels temporarily attached to a belt-like liner at predetermined intervals, the printer calculates the label pitch from the downstream end portion of a first label and the upstream end portion of the first label detected by a second detecting unit that detects an end portion of the label, if the calculated label pitch is smaller than a distance from a first detecting unit for identifying a printing start position of the label to a printing unit, the printer feeds the label continuous body to a printing start position of a second label based on the calculated label pitch.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides a printer configured to print on a print medium. The printer includes a thermal head and a control unit. The thermal head has a plurality of heating elements that are arranged in a line. The control unit is configured to control thermal energy to be applied to the plurality of heating elements, in accordance with information based on image data. The information includes whether to apply a pulse of energizing current in each of a plurality of periods being preset during a scanning line time for one line. The plurality of periods is set in an order from a long period to a short period during the scanning line time.

Abstract: An RFID label includes: a substrate; a dipole antenna formed of a metal foil so as to have a predetermined antenna length and a predetermined antenna width, the dipole antenna being arranged on a surface of the substrate; an IC chip connected to the dipole antenna; and a separator temporarily adhered to an adhesive agent overlaid on the surface of the substrate on which the dipole antenna is arranged, wherein a tear off line cuts through the substrate and the dipole antenna, in at least a part of the dipole antenna, so as to extend along an antenna length direction and so as to be superimposed with the part of the dipole antenna.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention is an information processing system comprising: a user terminal carried by a user; a communication device being attached on a product in a store and including a sensor and a storage, the sensor configured to detect a touch on the product by a person, the storage storing unique identification information; and an information processing device being capable of communicating with the user terminal. The information processing device comprises a control unit configured to, when a detecting device, which is the communication device that has detected a touch on the product by a person, is present in the store, associate user information on the user terminal positioned in proximity to the detecting device, with the identification information on the detecting device.

Abstract: A label sheet includes a plurality of label assemblies. Each label assembly includes a label and a liner. The label includes a label first portion having an adhesive surface, and a label second portion having an adhesive surface. The liner includes a liner first portion coupled to the label first portion, the liner first portion configured to be separable from the label first portion, and a liner second portion coupled to the label second portion. A cut is formed in the liner and positioned between the liner first portion and the liner second portion. The cut includes a first curved portion positioned at a first edge of the liner and a second curved portion positioned at a second edge of the liner.

Abstract: An RFID inlay, a hot melt-based adhesive layer laminated on a surface of the RFID inlay on which an RFID antenna and an IC chip are formed, a first thermoplastic resin sheet, and an adherend adhesive layer configured to be attached to an adherend are laminated in this order.

Abstract: The controller executes the first process once and then executes the second process. The first process is a process for back-feeding the continuous body, writing information to the RFID inlet, and then forward-feeding the continuous body until the RFID medium reaches the print start position. The second process is a process for stopping printing on the RFID medium halfway and writing information to the subsequent RFID medium following the RFID medium under printing when the RFID inlet of the subsequent RFID medium reaches the position allowing the communication with the antenna, and then resuming and completing printing on the RFID medium, printing on which was stopped halfway.

Abstract: A printer that prints each printing medium having an RFID, the printer including: a radio wave strength acquisition unit that acquires radio wave strength from the RFID; and a determine unit that determines whether the RFID is normal or not on the basis of a radio wave strength obtained by the radio wave strength acquisition unit and a threshold.

Abstract: A printer is configured to print on a print medium having a thermal color developing layer and includes: a thermal head having a plurality of heating elements that are arranged in a line; and a processor configured to: set a first application period of a pulse of energizing current, during a scanning line time for one line, the pulse of energizing current applying thermal energy that causes the thermal color developing layer to develop color, to the plurality of heating elements, correct a length of the first application period, which is set by the processor, based on an image to be printed, and determine print speed to be applied in printing the whole image at a constant speed, by extending the scanning line time so as to contain a maximum length of the first application period that has been corrected by the processor.