Editing device editing print data via display device for creating composite label with printing device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11537340-B2
Application number	US-202017106071-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 28, 2020
Priority date	Nov 29, 2019
Publication date	Dec 27, 2022
Grant date	Dec 27, 2022

Abstract

An editing device is configured to edit print data including first print data and second print data via a display device for creating a composite label with a printing device. The composite label includes a first label and a second label and is created by superposing the second label over the first label. A set of program instructions, when executed by a controller of the editing device, causes the editing device to perform displaying an editing screen on the display device. The editing screen has a first region, a second region, and a composite region. The displaying displays a first label image based on the first print data in the first region, a second label image based on the second print data in the second region, and a composite label image formed by superposing the second label image over the first label image in the composite region.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An editing device configured to edit print data including first print data and second print data via a display device for creating a composite label with a printing device in which a plurality of types of tape cassettes is selectively mountable, the plurality of types of tape cassettes accommodating therein respective ones of a plurality of types of tapes and respective ones of a plurality of types of ink ribbons, the plurality of types of tapes having respective ones of a plurality of tape colors, the plurality of types of ink ribbons having respective ones of a plurality of ink colors, the printing device being configured to print an object on a tape in a mounted tape cassette mounted therein in an ink color of an ink ribbon in the mounted tape cassette, the composite label including a first label and a second label and being created by superposing the second label over the first label, the first label being printed by the printing device according to the first print data, the second label being printed by the printing device according to the second print data, the editing device comprising:
a controller; and
a memory storing a set of program instructions therein, the set of program instructions, when executed by the controller, causing the editing device to perform:
(a) displaying an editing screen on the display device,

wherein the (a) displaying displays a first label image based on the first print data in a first region on the editing screen, the first print data including first image data representing a first object image, the first object image being displayed based on the first print data and a first ink color in the first region, the first label image other than the first object image being displayed based on a first tape color, the first print data being editable in the first region,
wherein the (a) displaying further displays a second label image based on the second print data in a second region on the editing screen, the second print data including second image data representing a second object image, the second object image being displayed based on the second print data and a second ink color in the second region, the first region and the second region being displayed separately, independently, and simultaneously on the editing screen, the second print data being editable in the second region, and
wherein the (a) displaying further displays a composite label image formed by superposing the second label image over the first label image in a composite region on the editing screen, the composite label image including a composite object image formed by superposing the second object image over the first object image, the composite object image being displayed in a color obtained by superposing the second ink color on the first ink color, the composite label image other than the composite object image being displayed in a color obtained by superposing the second tape color on the first tape color, the composite region, the first region, and the second region being displayed separately, independently, and simultaneously on the editing screen.

2. The editing device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the memory is configured to further store a plurality of sets of color information corresponding to respective ones of the plurality of types of tape cassettes, the plurality of sets of color information including respective ones of a plurality of sets of printing color information, the plurality of sets of printing color information indicating respective ones of the plurality of ink colors,
wherein the set of program instructions, when executed by the controller, causes the editing device to further perform:
(b) editing one of the first print data and the second print data, the (b) editing comprising:
(b1) setting first target color information for the first print data and second target color information for the second print data, the first target color information and the second target color information being selected from among the plurality of sets of color information.

3. The editing device according to claim 2 ,
wherein the plurality of sets of color information further includes respective ones of a plurality of sets of tape color information, the plurality of sets of tape color information indicating respective ones of the plurality of tape colors.

4. The editing device according to claim 2 , wherein the (b) editing further comprises:
(b2) creating first color information list and second color information list, the first color information list including at least one set of first color information compatible with the first label, the at least one set of first color information being selected from among the plurality of sets of color information, the second color information list including at least one set of second color information compatible with the second label, the at least one set of second color information being selected from among the plurality of sets of color information; and
(b3) displaying the first color information list and the second color information list on the display device, and
wherein the (b1) setting sets one of the first target color information and the second target color information, the one of the first target color information and the second target color information being selected from one of the first color information list and the second color information list, the first target color information being selected from among the at least one set of first color information in the first color information list, the second target color information being selected from among the at least one set of second color information in the second color information list.

5. The editing device according to claim 4 , wherein the plurality of sets of color information further includes respective ones of a plurality of sets of transmittance information, each of the plurality of sets of transmittance information indicating a transmittance of corresponding one of the plurality of types of tapes, and
wherein the (b2) creating creates the second color information list by selecting the at least one set of second color information including respective ones of at least one set of second transmittance information, each of the at least one set of second transmittance information indicating a second transmittance greater than or equal to a first threshold.

6. The editing device according to claim 4 , wherein the (b2) creating excludes selected color information selected from the one of the first color information list and the second color information list from another of the first color information list and the second color information list when the (b1) setting sets the selected color information as the one of the first target color information and the second target color information, the first target color information being excluded from the at least one set of the second color information in the second color information list, the second target color information being excluded from the at least one set of first color information in the first color information list.

7. The editing device according to claim 4 ,
wherein the plurality of color information further includes respective ones of a plurality of sets of tape color information, the plurality of sets of tape color information indicating respective ones of the plurality of tape colors, and
wherein the (b2) creating excludes relevant color information from another of the first color information list and the second color information list when the (b1) setting sets the one of the first target color information and the second target color information, the relevant color information including relevant printing color information indicating a relevant ink color, the one of the first target color informa

Assignees

• Brother Ind Ltd

Inventors

• Osuka Misato
• Kanda Ryuichi
• Iwamoto Masashi
• Suzuki Yuichiro

Classifications

• G06F3/1256

  User feedback, e.g. print preview, test print, proofing, pre-flight checks · CPC title

• G06F3/1243 Primary

  Variable data printing, e.g. document forms, templates, labels, coupons, advertisements, logos, watermarks, transactional printing, fixed content versioning · CPC title

• B41J2/21

  for multi-colour printing · CPC title

• G06F3/1251

  for continuous media, e.g. web media, rolls · CPC title

• B41J2/2132

  Print quality control characterised by dot disposition, e.g. for reducing white stripes or banding (methods for local corrections by dot omission, image edge enhancement, or multi-pass mask selection G06K15/102; colour conversion H04N1/40) · CPC title