Patent ID: 8534939

Claim:
A tape printing apparatus comprising: a cassette housing portion that replaceably houses a tape cassette; a tape conveying unit for conveying a tape that is long and accommodated inside-4n-the tape cassette; a printing unit for carrying out printing on the tape; and a cutter unit that cuts off a tape, wherein the tape printing apparatus further comprises: a printing-information obtaining unit that obtains printing information consisting of printing data to be printed out on the tape and a created number of labels to be printed by on the tape; a type detecting unit that detects a type of a tape cassette housed in the cassette housing portion; a type identifying unit that identifies whether or not the type of the tape cassette detected by the type detecting unit is a stripped-tape accommodating cassette which is a cassette that accommodates a film tape and a two sided adhesive tape including two adhesive layers, one of which is covered with a separator and the other of which is free from the separator, the separator being removed from the two sided adhesive tape, within the cassette, after an adhesive layer, free from the separator, and a printed surface of the film tape are pasted together by the tape conveying unit; and a printing control unit that controls the printing unit to print out the printing data only once, thereafter convey the tape to a cutting point for the cutter unit and stop conveyance of the tape so as to terminate printing, if the type of the tape cassette housed in the cassette housing portion is identified as the stripped-tape accommodating cassette.