Patent ID: 7556444

Claim:
An embossing control method used in a braille-embossing apparatus including two discontinuous tape conveying paths, an ink-character tape conveying path and a Braille tape-conveying path, the two discontinuous tape conveying paths include an ink-character printing device that prints an ink character on a tape inserted into the ink character tape conveying path, and an embossing head that embosses a braille string on the tape fed along the braille tape-conveying path, the braille string being embossed in an area biased to one of upper and lower sides of the tape along the width of the tape without changing the upper and lower direction of the braille string, the embossing control method comprising the steps of: designating the area biased to one of the upper and lower sides of the tape along the width of the tape as a braille-embossing area in which braille embossing is to be performed; embossing the braille string in the designated braille-embossing area, wherein the embossing head is disposed biased to one of the opposite sides of the braille tape-conveying path along the width of the braille tape-conveying path, the tape being manually inserted into the braille tape-conveying path after the ink character printing device prints information indicating an insertion direction in which the tape is to be inserted into the braille tape-conveying path such that the braille-embossing area of the tape faces the embossing head; and rotating braille data used in braille embossing by 180° along a feeding direction of the tape, after designating the area biased to one of the upper and lower sides of the tape along the width of the tape as the braille-embossing area and before embossing the braille string in the designated braille-embossing area, so that the upper and lower direction of the braille string matches the upper and lower direction of the tape inserted into the Braille tape-conveying path.