Patent ID: 8821047

Claim:
A printing system comprising: a control device configured to generate print data; and a printer that prints the print data transmitted from the control device on a tape, wherein the control device includes a status information acquisition section for periodically acquiring status information including a tape width of the tape loaded in the printer, a display section for displaying an editing screen of the print data and the status information, an operation section for instructing the printer to execute printing, and a display control section for performing display control of the display section, and wherein the display control section performs display control of the display section to display a present tape width based on the latest status information acquired, as the status information, on the display section, determines whether a tape width set in the print data and the present tape width are identical to each other when the printer is instructed to execute printing by the operation section, urges exchange of the tape on the display section when the tape width set in the print data and the present tape width are not identical to each other by providing an option of either printing by exchanging the tape or printing to fit the present tape width.