Patent ID: 7114865

Claim:
A tape printer comprising: a tape feeding mechanism that feeds a long tape; an input device; a display device that displays printing data composed of characters, graphics, and/or the like input or edited by the input device; a printing mechanism that prints the printing data on the tape; and a control circuit that performs driving control of the printing mechanism, wherein the tape printer serially increments and prints a numbering character string having a predetermined arrangement sequential order, such as a numerical, alphabetical, or Japanese syllabary order, in units of a print tape by using the printing mechanism, wherein the control circuit comprises a processor that executes: a start-position setting process for specifying a firstly incrementing character of a numbering character string input by the input device; an end-position setting process for specifying a maximum number of repeatedly incrementable characters or maximum number of repeatedly incrementable digits of the numbering character string; a number-of-print-tapes setting process for specifying a number of print tapes on which the numbering character string is to be serially incremented and printed; and a numbering-result displaying process for displaying on the display device a numbering character string that is to be printed on a first print tape and a numbering character string that is to be printed on a last print tape.