Patent ID: 8587821
Filing Date: 2013-11-19
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A tape printer for printing on a long tape, the tape printer having a large-size printing function of being configured to divide an enlarged printing image, which has an image width larger than the tape width of the long tape into two or more images, and to sequentially print the two or more images respectively on two or more tape parts of the long tape, so that the enlarged printing image is formed by arranging two or more printed tape parts parallel to each other in a tape width direction, the tape printer comprising: a tape width detecting section detecting the tape width of the long tape; a layout determining section determining enlargement layout information indicating the layout of a character or graphics forming the enlarged printing image; a margin determining section determining the margin widths of an upper margin and a lower margin of the enlarged printing image in the tape width direction based on the enlargement layout information determined by the layout determining section and determining whether the sum of the determined margin widths is equal to or greater than the tape width of the long tape; an image data generating section generating image data of the enlarged printing image based on the enlargement layout information determined by the layout determining section; and a printing section sequentially printing, on one or more tape parts respectively, the image data of the enlarged printing image other than part of the upper margin and part of the lower margin based on the determination result obtained by the margin determining section.