Patent ID: 7935199

Claim:
A printer-labeler, comprising: a conveying unit which conveys label paper comprising a base paper having labels affixed thereto; a printing unit which performs printing on the labels; a label peeling unit which is disposed downstream of the printing unit in a label paper conveying direction and which peels from the base paper a label from among the labels affixed to the base paper in a label paper conveying process; a conveyor belt which conveys the label peeled by the label peeling unit toward a predetermined label recovery position; a sticking mechanism which removes the label from the conveyor belt and which sticks the label to a work at a predetermined position; and a label sensor which detects the label on the conveyor belt; a controller which executes: a processing to perform a label sticking process comprising controlling the sticking mechanism to remove the label from the conveyor belt and to stick the label to the work at the predetermined position, when the label sensor detects the label; a processing to detect a defect of the label on the conveyor belt before the label sensor detects the label; and a processing to control a drive source of the conveyor belt to convey the label to the label recovery position without carrying out the label sticking process, when the processing to detect a defect of the label detects a defect of the label; wherein the conveyor belt passes a position at which the sticking mechanism removes the label from the conveyor belt.