Patent ID: 7357585
Filing Date: 2008-04-15
Classification: B41J,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A tape printing apparatus in combination with a printing tape, said printing tape having: a translucent recording-tape layer having a recording surface on a face thereof; and a translucent pseudo-laminating layer adhered to a back of said recording-tape layer, said pseudo-laminating layer having an adhesive-agent layer on a face thereof and a translucent tape layer on a back thereof, said recording-tape layer having a print-recording piece whose face serves as a printing region and a cut-off piece to be peeled off from said adhesive-agent layer, said print-recording piece being separated from said cut-off off piece by a long-side cutting line formed in a longitudinal direction of said recording surface, said apparatus comprising: input means for inputting character string made up of one or more characters to be printed on said recording surface; data inverting means for inverting the inputted character string in a right-and-left direction; printing means for printing on the printing region the character string as inverted by said data inverting means; full-cutting means for cutting off only that portion of the printing tape on which the character string is printed; and half-cutting means for forming a cutting line by cutting the print-recording tape layer in the widthwise direction of the tape to thereby form a cutting line in a short-side direction of the tape, said cutting line being located outside the character string, as seen in the character-string direction, in the printed portion.