Patent ID: 7954713

Claim:
A tag-label producing device comprising: a roll mounting/dismounting part that selectively installs a tag tape roll around which a tag tape is wound, and an ordinary-tape roll around which an ordinary tape is wound, said tag tape having arranged thereon an RFID circuit element including an IC circuit part that stores information and a tag-side antenna connected to said IC circuit part; at least a roller drive shaft that feeds a tape in a tape length direction, the tape being supplied from said tag tape roll or said ordinary-tape roll mounted on said roll mounting/dismounting part; a transmitting/receiving device that performs transmission/reception of information to/from said IC circuit part of said RFID circuit element equipped in said tag tape via wireless communication, upon installation of said tag tape roll using said roll mounting/dismounting part; a detection device that detects which one of said tag tape roll and said ordinary-tape roll has been installed using said roll mounting/dismounting device; and a controller including, with respect to tape slack reduction processing, a tag tape mode and an ordinary-tape mode respectively corresponding to said tag tape roll and said ordinary-tape roll, that controls said roller drive shaft by switching said mode in accordance with a result of detection by said detection device; wherein: said controller controls said roller drive shall so that a predetermined amount of feeding of said tape in a forward or reverse direction for said tape slack reduction processing is performed upon loading said tag tape or said ordinary-tape in said device; and said controller controls said roller drive shaft so that: in said ordinary-tape mode, a feeding of said ordinary tape by a first distance for said tape slack reduction processing is performed; and in said tag tape mode, a feeding of said tag tape by a second distance, which is shorter than said first distance, for said tape slack reduction processing is performed.