Patent ID: 8562228

Claim:
A tape printer comprising: a tape cassette that includes: a tape roll that is a wound tape as a print medium; and a box-like housing that supports the tape roll therein; a cassette housing portion in which the tape cassette is removably installed; a feeding device that pulls out and feeds the tape along a feed path from the housing of the tape cassette installed in the cassette housing portion; a printing device that performs printing on the tape fed by the feeding device; a plurality of detecting switches that protrude toward a side surface of the housing of the tape cassette installed in the cassette housing portion; a first determining device that, in a case where a part of the plurality of detecting switches is pressed, determines that the tape cassette is installed in the cassette housing portion; and a second determining device that, in a case where a specific detecting switch among the plurality of detecting switches is pressed, determines that the tape cassette is not installed at a proper position in the cassette housing portion, the tape cassette including: a first pressing portion that is provided on the side surface of the housing and that, in a case where the tape cassette is installed at the proper position in the cassette housing portion, presses a part of the plurality of detecting switches; and a second pressing portion that is provided on the side surface of the housing and that, in a case where the tape cassette is not installed at the proper position in the cassette housing portion, presses the specific detecting switch.