Patent ID: 9610785
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: B41J,G03G,G06K

Claim:
1. A tape printer comprising: a feed portion that performs forward feed to feed a tape in a forward direction and backward feed to feed the tape in a backward direction; a feed path along which the tape is fed in the forward direction and the backward direction; a print portion that performs a print process of an image on the tape at a print position of the feed path; and a cut portion that performs a cut operation to cut off the tape at a cut position on a downstream side of the print position of the feed path, wherein the feed portion performs the feed portion feeds the tape backward as the pre-print feed by a distance greater than a distance between the print position and the cut position when the cut portion has not performed the cut o oration the post-print feed at the time of starting the print process.