Patent ID: 7121751

Claim:
A tape printing device comprising a tape feed unit for feeding a long tape, a printing unit for printing on the tape, and a cutter member being placed on the downstream side of the printing unit for cutting the tape, the tape being formed of a label tape in which a plurality of labels are temporarily stuck on a front side of a long strippable sheet being aligned along the length of the strippable sheet, the tape printing device further comprising: a mark sensor which detects position indication marks formed at prescribed positions in a tape feeding direction on a back side of the strippable sheet opposed to corresponding labels respectively; and a control unit which controls the tape feed unit based on a output signal outputted by the mark sensor, the printing unit including a plurality of printing elements, the printing elements being situated on the downstream side of a print start position of a next label which will be printed on next at a point when the label tape after the printing on a label has been fed to a tape cutting position to be cut by the cutter member, the mark sensor being situated on the downstream side of a position indication mark opposed to the next label and on the upstream side of the printing elements at the point when the label tape after the printing on a label has been fed to the tape cutting position to be cut by the cutter member.