Patent ID: 8526017

Claim:
A tape printing apparatus for editing on an image editing screen a printing image to be printed on a printing medium, the printing image being arranged by a plurality of translated terms of at least one term represented by a plurality of languages, the apparatus comprising: an input device for inputting a term in one language; a translated-term memory device for storing therein plural sets of the plurality of translated terms, wherein a portion of the translated terms cannot be inputted by the input device; a selection device for selecting one set of the translated terms out of the plural sets of the translated terms, wherein the term in one language input by the input device is included in the one language in the one set of the translated terms selected by the selection device; a display device for displaying on the image editing screen the selected one set of the translated terms as a printing block, where addition and deletion of a letter are prohibited, on a translated term-by-translated term basis; and a position designating device for designating an editing input position of the printing block on the image editing screen.