Patent ID: 7314321
Filing Date: 2008-01-01
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A tape printing apparatus capable of producing a label in such a manner that any one of longitudinal direction printing in which an arranging direction of character strings coincides with a longitudinal direction of a tape, and width direction printing in which the arranging direction coincides with a width direction of the tape, is selected, images of the character strings are arranged in an arrangement area of a print image and printed on the tape, and the tape is cut in the width direction, comprising: label width setting means for setting a label width as a size of a label in the longitudinal direction when the width direction printing is selected; width direction character string input means capable of inputting character strings for the width direction printing when the width direction printing is selected; arrangement width setting means for setting a size in the longitudinal direction of the character string images in the arrangement area as an arrangement width when the width direction printing is selected; print image creation means for creating the print image by arranging the character string images in the arrangement area according to the arrangement width; print means for printing the created print image; and cut means for cutting the tape having the print image printed thereon in accordance with the label width; wherein, when there are multiple lines of the character string images in the arrangement area, the arrangement width setting means is capable of setting the arrangement width for each of the lines of the character string images.