Patent ID: 8410912

Claim:
A printing device which writes information into and prints on a RFID sheet having a RFID tag, the printing device comprising: an information writing unit configured for writing information into the RFID tag in a plurality of steps; an error detection unit configured for detecting errors at the plurality of steps in a procedure for writing information into the RFID tag by the information writing unit; an error type pattern storage unit configured for storing each detected error type patterns at respective steps at which the errors have been detected by the error detection unit; a printing control unit configured for reading from the error type pattern storage unit, the error type patterns corresponding to a step at which the error has been detected when an error is detected by the error detection unit, and configured for printing the error type pattern on the RFID sheet; and an error information storage unit configured for storing as an error information a number of error sheets which number is increased by one each time an error is detected by the error detection unit for the respective steps as an error information.