Patent ID: 6869236

Claim:
A printing apparatus comprising: a rotational support section that rotatably supports a recording medium; a character string storing section that stores an input character string; a print section that prints the character string within a predetermined print range of the recording medium supported by said rotational support section by one printing operation; an arrangement pattern storing section, being prepared in advance, that stores a plurality of kinds of arrangement patterns to arrange the character string along a circle or arc having a predetermined length; an arrangement pattern selecting section that selects one arrangement pattern from the plurality of kinds of arrangement patterns stored in said arrangement pattern storing section; an operational condition setting section that sets the number of printing operation times of said print section necessary to print the character string and each operational condition of a rotation angle of said rotational support section corresponding to one printing operation of said print section based on the print range and the selected arrangement pattern; a print data creating section that creates print data, which corresponds to the set number of printing operation times, where the character string is arranged within the print range along the circumference around the center of the recording medium based on the selected arrangement pattern; and a control section that repeatedly alternately performs: (i) an operation that causes each created print data to be printed on the recording medium by one printing operation of said print section in a state that the rotation of said rotation support section is stopped, and (ii) an operation that causes said rotation support section to be rotated by the set rotation angle before a next printing operation of said print section is started according to the set operational condition.