Patent ID: 7318681

Claim:
A label making apparatus comprising: a printing device for printing print contents on tapes that are sequentially fed into the label making apparatus; a label arrangement unit for setting an arrangement of a number of different labels on a tape by a predetermined arrangement rule; a print control unit for controlling the printing device to print on a tape with the arrangement of the number of labels by the label arrangement unit, wherein each tape comprises a printed layer, an adhesive layer, and a separating layer, and also includes a half cut line which extends in the tape longitudinal direction across at least the printed layer to divide, in a tape width direction, a plurality of tape areas, the plurality of areas including a first tape area and a second tape area; a number-of-labels setting unit for setting the number of labels to be printed, wherein the label arrangement unit sets the arrangement of the number of labels, which has been set by the number-of-labels setting unit, in each of the plurality of tape areas divided with the half cut line so that the label making apparatus makes the labels to be printed on a tape area narrower than a tape, wherein: labels to be printed in the plurality of tape areas of one tape form a label-set, and the label arrangement unit determines whether a stored total number of label-sets is one, when the stored total number of label-sets is determined to be one, labels in the plurality of tape areas are printed; and when the stored total number of label-sets is determined not to be one, labels of different label-sets that are to be printed sequentially in corresponding first tape areas of sequential tapes form a first sequence of labels, labels of different label-sets that are to be printed sequentially in corresponding second tape areas of the sequential tapes form a second sequence of labels, and the label arrangement unit receives a selection for the first and second sequences of labels to independently change print contents according to the predetermined arrangement rule; and a cutting device for cutting the printed tape to separate the number of labels.