Patent ID: 7855804

Claim:
A tape creating apparatus, comprising: a printing device that prints characters on a label tape that includes a winding margin portion that is wound around a periphery of a cylindrical member and a flag portion that is uniformly formed with the winding margin portion, wherein characters are printed on the flag portion and a reference line is printed at a central position of the winding margin portion; an input device that inputs a diameter of the cylindrical member and a number of the cylindrical members; and a controller that sets a length of the flag portion and a length of the winding margin portion on the basis of the diameter of the cylindrical member and the number of the cylindrical members as input by the input device, and that sets a character size of the characters that are to be printed by the printing device, wherein: the length of the flag portion is set with a first table correlating the diameter of the cylindrical member and the number of the cylindrical members with the length of the flag portion, the length of the winding margin portion is set with a second table correlating the diameter of the cylindrical member and the number of the cylindrical members, and the character size is set with a third table correlating the diameter of the cylindrical member and the number of cylindrical members with the character size.