Patent ID: 7866561

Claim:
A label producing apparatus comprising: a bonding device configured to produce a tag label tape by bonding a print-receiving tape paid out from a print-receiving tape roll and a base tape paid out from a base tape roll; a communication information creating device configured to create RFID control information for carrying out communication to a plurality of RFID circuit elements disposed on one of said print-receiving tape and said base tape, the plurality of RFID circuit elements comprising a plurality of IC circuit parts for storing information and a plurality of tag antennas for transmitting and receiving information, each of said plurality of tag antennas is connected to a corresponding one of said plurality of IC circuit parts; a device antenna configured to communicate with said IC circuit parts by transmitting said RFID control information created by said communication information creating device to said tag antenna by wireless communication, disposed upstream of said bonding device in the transport direction of any one of said print-receiving tape and said base tape; and a printing device configured to carry out print corresponding to said RFID circuit element to said print-receiving tape, disposed upstream of said bonding device in the transport direction of said print-receiving tape, wherein said device antenna and said printing device are disposed, such that distances thereof to said bonding device are about the same.