Patent ID: 6648532
Filing Date: 2003-11-18
Classification: B41J,Y10T

Abstract:
A tape printing apparatus comprising:tape feeding means for feeding a tape material in the form of a laminate of a printing tape and a peel-off paper; printing means for printing on the tape material being fed by said tape feeding means; full-cutting means arranged at a location downstream of said printing means in a tape-feeding direction, for cutting off the tape material; half-cutting means arranged at a location downstream of said printing means in the tape-feeding direction, for carrying out half-cutting to cut off one of the printing tape and the peel-off tape of the tape material; and control means for individually and separately controlling said tape feeding means, said printing means, said full-cutting means and said half-cutting means, such that half-cutting is carried out to cut off a printed label-forming portion of the tape material with a peel-off margin provided therefor which extends from an upstream end of the printed label-forming portion of the tape material in the direction of feeding of the tape material and such that a sum of the peel-off margin of the printed label-forming portion and a leading margin of a printed portion is larger than a distance between said printing means and said full-cutting means.