Patent ID: 9120329
Filing Date: 2015-09-01
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A printing apparatus that prints on a print receiving tape, the apparatus comprising: an image data generating device configured to generate image data based on a touch detection signal supplied from a touch panel when the touch panel is touched to execute a hand writing input; a blank space detecting device configured such that, by scanning all lines of the image data line by line, (i) an area where a line which includes at least one dot having a dot value equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold exists in the lines of the image data having been scanned is detected as line data that corresponds to an area where the hand writing input is executed by the touch panel, and (ii) an area where a line which includes no dot having a dot value equal to or greater than the predetermined threshold exists in the lines of the image data having been scanned is detected as blank space data that corresponds to an area where the hand writing input by the touch panel is not executed; an alignment processing device configured such that, when a plurality of the line data corresponding to a plurality of lines of the hand writing input are detected in the image data by the blank space detecting device, the plurality of the line data, which are obtained by deleting the blank space data from the image data, are aligned end to end into a single line along a tape conveying direction such that a beginning of one of the plurality of line data is adjacent to an end of another of the plurality of line data along the tape conveying direction; a printing data generating device configured to generate printing data by executing a size conversion of the plurality of the line data that are aligned end to end into the single line along the tape conveying direction so as to match the plurality of the line data to the print receiving tape; and a printing processing device configured to execute a printing process on the print receiving tape based on the printing data.