Patent ID: 11912048
Assignee: SATO HOLDINGS KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Textile and paper machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A printer comprising:
a printing unit configured to print on an RFID medium while feeding a continuous body on which RFID mediums are provided in series, each of the RFID mediums including an RFID inlet;
an antenna provided upstream of the printing unit and configured to write information to the RFID inlet;
first processing means for back-feeding the continuous body until the RFID inlet of the RFID medium in a print start position reaches a position allowing a communication with the antenna and writing information to the RFID inlet, and then forward-feeding the continuous body until the RFID medium, which was in the print start position, again reaches the print start position; and
second processing means for printing on the RFID medium while forward-feeding the continuous body, stopping printing on the RFID medium halfway and writing information to an RFID inlet of a 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; wherein
when a printing and issuing instruction of the RFID mediums is issued, processing of the first processing means is executed once, and then processing of the second processing means is executed.