Patent ID: 8098408

Claim:
A two-dimensional code printing apparatus comprising: a display device; an input device that inputs various characters, numbers, symbols, or instructions by an operation of a user; an input data storage device that stores data corresponding to the various characters, numbers, or symbols which are input by the input device; a first display controller that displays the various characters, numbers, or symbols corresponding to the data stored in the input data storage device on the display device; a selection device that selects a desired portion of the displayed characters, numbers or symbols displayed on the display device by voluntarily designating a range of the desired portion through the input instructions input by the user's operation of the input device; a two-dimensional code conversion device that converts only the selected characters, numbers, or symbols by the selection device among the characters, numbers or symbols displayed on the display device into a two-dimensional code; a transformed data storage device that stores data corresponding to not selected characters, numbers, or symbols by the selection device and data corresponding to the converted two-dimensional code by the two-dimensional code conversion device; a second display controller that displays the characters, numbers, symbols not selected by the selection device, and the two-dimensional code corresponding to the stored data in the transformed data storage device on the display device; and a printer that prints the characters, numbers, symbols not selected by the selection device, and the two-dimensional code corresponding to the stored data in the transformed data storage device on a printing medium.