Printing apparatus configured to print on tape

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10414175-B2
Application number	US-201715711676-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 21, 2017
Priority date	Sep 28, 2015
Publication date	Sep 17, 2019
Grant date	Sep 17, 2019

Abstract

A printing apparatus includes a conveying portion, a printing portion, and a controller. The controller controls the conveying portion and the printing portion based on first data and second data. The controller is configured to generate a first print label set and a second print label set. The first print label set includes first label portion on which printing is performed based on one piece of the first data and non-label portion on which printing is performed based on one piece of the second data adjacent to the first label portion. The second print label set includes second label portion on which printing is performed based on remaining one piece of the first data and non-label portion on which printing is performed based on remaining one piece of the second data adjacent to the second label portion.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A printing apparatus comprising:
a conveying portion configured to convey a tape, the tape comprising a first sheet in a form of an elongated rectangular shape and having a first surface, and a second sheet in a form of an elongated rectangular shape and affixed to the first surface of the first sheet, the second sheet including two label portions and a non-label portion, each label portion being segmented from the non-label portion by a cut line, the non-label portion being defined as a region of the second sheet other than the label portions, each of the two label portions having a first label portion and a second label portion disposed in a longitudinal direction of the tape;
a printing portion configured to perform printing on the tape conveyed by the conveying portion; and
a controller configured to perform:
acquiring two pieces of first data and two pieces of second data from a database that includes the two pieces of the first data and the two pieces of the second data, wherein the two pieces of the second data correspond to the two pieces of the first data;
controlling the conveying portion and the printing portion based on the two pieces of the first data and the two pieces of the second data acquired in the acquiring; and
generating a first print label set and a second print label set, the first print label set including the first label portion on which printing is performed based on one piece of the first data and part of the non-label portion on which printing is performed based on one piece of the second data corresponding to the one piece of the first data adjacent to the first label portion, the second print label set including the second label portion on which printing is performed based on remaining one piece of the first data and part of the non-label portion on which printing is performed based on remaining one piece of the second data corresponding to the remaining one piece of the first data adjacent to the second label portion,
wherein the one piece of the second data indicates first relevant material that is associated with a first adherend, to which the first label portion printed with the one piece of the first data is to be affixed, and
wherein the remaining one piece of the second data indicates second relevant material that is associated with a second adherend, to which the second label portion printed with the remaining one piece of the first data is to be affixed.

2. The printing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a setting portion configured to set a template on which a first input frame and a second input frame are disposed,
wherein the controller is configured to further generate the first print label set and the second print label set by assigning the first data in the first input frame and assigning the second data in the second input frame.

3. The printing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured to control the conveying portion and the printing portion to further print, on the second sheet, a figure correlating the one piece of the first data and the one piece of the second data and a figure correlating the remaining one piece of the first data and the remaining one piece of the second data.

4. The printing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured to further generate:
the first print label set in which:
text of the one piece of the first data is printed in a forward direction on one side portion of the first label portion,
text of the one piece of the first data is printed in a backward direction on another side portion of the first label portion, the one side portion and the another side portion of the first label portion confronting each other with respect to a folding line of the first label portion, and
text of the one piece of the second data is printed, adjacent to the first label portion, in the forward direction on the non-label portion closer to the one side portion than to the another side portion of the first label portion; and

the second print label set in which:
text of the remaining one piece of the first data is printed in the forward direction on one side portion of the second label portion,
text of the remaining one piece of the first data is printed in the backward direction on another side portion of the second label portion, the one side portion and the another side portion of the second label portion confronting each other with respect to a folding line of the second label portion, and
text of the remaining one piece of the second data is printed, adjacent to the second label portion, in the forward direction on the non-label portion closer to the one side portion than to the another side portion of the second label portion.

5. A printing apparatus comprising:
a conveying portion configured to convey a printing tape, the printing tape having an elongated peeling sheet and an elongated adhesive sheet, the adhesive sheet having a base material and an adhesive layer on a pair of opposite sides thereof, the adhesive sheet being stuck to a surface of the peeling sheet such that the base material, the adhesive layer, and the peeling sheet are laminated in this order in a laminated direction and such that the adhesive sheet is capable of being peeled off the surface of the peeling sheet;
a printing portion configured to perform printing on the base material of the adhesive sheet of the printing tape conveyed by the conveying portion; and
a controller configured to control the conveying portion and the printing portion,
the adhesive sheet having a plurality of label portions and a non-label portion, the plurality of label portions being arranged in a conveying direction, in which the conveying portion conveys the printing tape, each label portion being defined as a region of the adhesive sheet surrounded by a cut line that passes through the adhesive sheet in the laminated direction, the non-label portion being defined as a region of the adhesive sheet other than the label portions,
each label portion having a label main body portion and a winding portion connected to the label main body portion, the label main body portion including a first label region and a second label region segmented from the first label region by a perforation line that passes through the adhesive sheet in the laminated direction, the perforation line extending discontinuously in the conveying direction, the first label region and the second label region being symmetric with each other with respect to the perforation line, the winding portion protruding in the conveying direction from a downstream end of the first label region in the conveying direction,
the plurality of label portions including two label portions, the two label portions including one label portion and a remaining one label portion,
the controller being configured to perform:
acquiring two pieces of first data and two pieces of second data from a database that includes the two pieces of the first data and the two pieces of the second data, the two pieces of the first data including one piece of the first data and a remaining one piece of the first data, the two pieces of the second data including: one piece of the second data corresponding to the one piece of the first data; and a remaining one piece of the second data corresponding to the remaining one piece of the first data;
controlling the conveying portion and the printing portion based on the two pieces of the first data and the two pieces of the second data acquired in the acquiring; and
generating two print label sets, the two print label sets including one print label set and a remaining one print label set,

the one print label set including: the one label portion, whose first label region and second label region are each printed with the one piece

Assignees

• Brother Ind Ltd

Inventors

• Sun Yongqi

Classifications

• G01R31/60

  Identification of wires in a multicore cable · CPC title

• G09F3/205

  specially adapted for electric cables, pipes or the like · CPC title

• G06K15/024 Primary

  for printing on segmented surfaces, e.g. sticker sheets, label rolls · CPC title

• G06K15/022

  for printing on continuous media, e.g. tapes · CPC title

• B41J11/663

  Controlling cutting, cutting resulting in special shapes of the cutting line, e.g. controlling cutting positions, e.g. for cutting in the immediate vicinity of a printed image · CPC title