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Tape printing apparatus and tape cassette

A printing position, technology with a printer, applied in the direction of a printing device, printing, typewriter, etc.

Inactive Publication Date: 2009-08-26
DYMO (BVBA)
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However, blank leaders and trailers are generally undesirable, especially when the label is printed with a background that makes the blank space obvious

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[0039] Figures 1 to 2 represent the prior art and have been introduced in the background section of this description.

[0040] image 3A schematic diagram of a tape printing apparatus 28 according to an embodiment of the present invention is shown. The tape printing device includes a keyboard 30 and a cartridge receiving compartment 32 . The keyboard has a plurality of data entry keys 34 such as numeric keys, letter keys and punctuation keys for entering data to be printed on a label and function keys for editing the entered data. The keypad may also have a print key 36 that is operated when it is desired to print a label. In addition, an on / off key 38 for switching on and off the tape printing device is provided.

[0041] The tape printing device has a liquid crystal display (LCD) 10 which displays data as it is entered. The display enables the user to view all or part of the label to be printed, which facilitates editing of the label before it is printed. In addition, t...

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Abstract

A method of printing an image on an image receiving tape comprising advancing the tape in a first direction such that a predetermined portion of the tape is downstream of the printing location, printing an image while advancing the tape in a second direction cutting the tape when at least the predetermined portion of tape is downstream of the cutting location, and cutting the tape again when the end of the image is a predetermined distance upstream of the cutting location.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a tape printing apparatus and to a method of printing on image receiving tape and cutting the image receiving tape to form labels. In particular, but not exclusively, the invention relates to a tape printing device for printing an image, such as a background image, on an image receiving tape such that the image is printed across the entire length of the label. Background technique [0002] Printers capable of printing background images include direct thermal printers. For example, EP1638780 describes a method of printing labels in which a multi-colour image is produced by direct thermal transfer on a tape in a single pass of the tape through a printhead, resulting in a high quality color image. [0003] When printing a colored background such as Monochrome, it is possible to print the background covering the full width of the label because the width of the print head exceeds the width of the tape. However, due to the ...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): B41J3/407B41J11/70B41J11/42B41J11/00B41J11/66
CPCB41J3/4075B41J11/703B41J11/425B41J11/0065B41J11/663B41J11/666
Inventor K·范德莫伦
Owner DYMO (BVBA)