Patent ID: 8004711
Filing Date: 2011-08-23
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A printing apparatus comprising: a format memory device that stores plural formats constituted of plural blocks for forming a data input area specified for each recording object medium and defining an edit sequence of the plural blocks so as to input data into the data input area; a format selecting device that selects any one format from the plural formats stored in the format memory device; a block edit sequence changing device that changes the edit sequence of the plural blocks defined by the format for the format selected by the format selecting device; a printing device that prints print data produced based on the selected format on the recording object medium; a print information input device that inputs a print information of any image or character into each of the plural blocks along the edit sequence of the plural blocks defined by a format selected by the format selecting device, wherein the block edit sequence changing device changes the edit sequence of the plural blocks based on whether or not the print information is input by the print information input device; and a block input setting table memory device that stores a block input setting table in which whether or not the print information is input into each of the plural blocks by the print information input device is set, wherein the block edit sequence changing device changes the edit sequence of the plural blocks so that a block in which the print information is input comes first while a block in which no print information is input comes after, based on the block input setting table.