Patent ID: 7133639

Claim:
A medicine-bag printing apparatus comprising: a plurality of printers for printing on medicine bags; a collecting portion for collecting the printed medicine bags via a conveying route; and a medicine-bag direction converting means for converting directions of the medicine bags printed by the plurality of printers so that the medicine bags can be collected with the same printing surface side and the same printing direction, wherein the medicine-bag direction converting means comprises a first conveying route in which a medicine bag fed from one of the printers is conveyed downward toward the collecting portion, and a second conveying route in which a medicine bag conveyed from another one of the printers is conveyed in an upward conveying direction, and then the upward conveying direction is converted to a downward conveying direction, wherein a part of the first and second conveying routes comprises a common conveying path which is disposed in an up-and-down direction and can be driven in both a normal direction and a reverse direction.