Patent ID: 7303343

Claim:
A printing system comprising: a supply device that supplies print table image data of table borders having a plurality of horizontal borders and a plurality of vertical borders for defining table rows and columns; and a tape printing device that prints a print table image based on the supplied print table image data onto a tape, said supply device and said tape printing device being connected via an interface, wherein said tape printing device comprises tape-width notifying means for notifying said supply device of the tape width of a tape accommodated in said tape printing device, and said supply device comprises: widthwise-size setting means for setting the size of the print table image in the tape-width direction based on the tape width; table structure input means for inputting the number of rows and columns defined by the table borders; reference-table-border creating means for creating reference table borders having a plurality of reference horizontal borders and a plurality of reference vertical borders based on the set size of the print table image in the tape-width direction and the input number of rows and columns; and print table image data editing means for editing the print table image data by changing and editing the length and position of the plurality of reference horizontal borders and the plurality of reference vertical borders of the reference table borders.