Patent ID: 7241062

Claim:
A method of controlling a tape processing apparatus which performs, on a tape to be sent from a tape inlet to a tape outlet along a tape travel passage through an embossing section, a series of tape processing operations of incoming-feed operation to feed the tape from the tape inlet to the embossing section, embossing operation in the embossing section, and of outgoing-feed operation to feed the tape from the embossing section to the tape outlet in an order as mentioned above, and which also indicates in an indicator that the apparatus is in the tape processing operations, the method comprising indicating in the indicator a pre-embossing feed indication which indicates the incoming-feed operation and a post-embossing feed indication which indicates the outgoing-feed operation in an indicating mode which is different from that of an embossing indication which indicates that the apparatus is in the embossing operation; wherein the indicator is an indicating lamp and wherein the embossing indication, the pre-embossing feed indication and the post-embossing feed indication are made by one of lighting up and flashing of the indicating lamp; and wherein the embossing indication, the pre-embossing feed indication and the post-embossing feed indication are made by flashing of the indicating lamp, and wherein flashing periods of the pre-embossing feed indication and the post-embossing feed indication are made longer than a flashing period of the embossing indication.