Patent ID: 8118505

Claim:
A printing apparatus comprising: a printer case that stores labels affixed to a web liner; a printer case cover that opens and closes; a detector that detects if the printer case cover is opened or closed; a peeling mechanism that peels a label from the web liner; a first transportation path through which the web liner is transported so that a label is peeled from the transported web liner by the peeling mechanism, the first transportation path formed when the printer case cover is closed; a second transportation path through which the peeled label or the labels affixed to the web liner without peeling are transported, the second transportation path formed when the printer case cover is closed; a manual switch positioned on the printer case; and a control unit that sets an input standby state in response to the detector detecting a closed position of the printer case cover, and that cancels the input standby state and executes a label indexing process in response to an activation of the manual switch.