Recording Medium and Label Producing Apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016292541-A1
Application number	US-201615087420-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Mar 31, 2016
Priority date	Mar 31, 2015
Publication date	Oct 6, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

The disclosure discloses a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a label production process program for executing steps on a computing portion of a terminal. The terminal is connected to a label producing apparatus that produces a label. The label includes an information print part having information printed thereon, and a winding part connected to the information print part and to be wound on an adherend. The steps comprises a position determination step, a mark data generation step, and a mark data output step. In the position determination step, a position of a mark to be a guidepost for a position to wind the winding part on the adherend, is determined. In the mark data generation step, mark data to form the mark at the position determined, is generated. In the mark data output step, the mark data generated is outputted to the label producing apparatus.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a label production process program for executing steps on a computing portion of a terminal connected to a label producing apparatus that produces a label including an information print part having information printed thereon, and a winding part connected to said information print part and to be wound on a circular-pipe-like or a cable-like adherend, said steps comprising:
a position determination step for determining a position of a mark to be formed on said winding part and to be a guidepost for a position to wind said winding part on said adherend; a mark data generation step for generating mark data to form said mark at the position determined in said position determination step; and a mark data output step for outputting said mark data generated in said mark data generation step to said label producing apparatus.

2 . The recording medium according to claim 1 , wherein
said steps further comprise a distance acquisition step for acquiring a spacing distance along an extension direction in which the winding part extends between said information print part and said adherend, and in said position determination step, the position of said mark is determined based on said spacing distance acquired in said distance acquisition step.

3 . The recording medium according to claim 2 , wherein
said steps further comprise an outer diameter acquisition step for acquiring a dimension of an outer diameter of said adherend, and in said position determination step, the position of said mark is determined based on said dimension of said outer diameter acquired in said outer diameter acquisition step and said spacing distance acquired in said distance acquisition step.

4 . The recording medium according to claim 3 , wherein
in said position determination step, the position of said mark for affixation, indicating a position of affixation of said winding part to said information print part.

5 . The recording medium according to claim 3 , wherein
in said position determination step, positions of said two marks representing a winding starting position and a winding ending position are determined based on said dimension of said outer diameter acquired in said outer diameter acquisition step and said spacing distance acquired in said distance acquisition step.

6 . The recording medium according to claim 2 , wherein
in said position determination step, the position of said one mark representing a winding starting position is determined based on said spacing distance acquired in said distance acquisition step.

7 . The recording medium according to claim 2 , wherein
in said position determination step, the position of said one mark representing a winding starting position and positions of said plural marks respectively representing winding ending positions corresponding to dimensions of outer diameters of plural types of adherends assumed in advance are determined based on said spacing distance acquired in said distance acquisition step.

8 . The recording medium according to claim 2 , wherein
said steps further comprise a label number acceptance step for accepting a setting operation for number of labels to be produced, and in the case that a setting for plural labels to be produced is accepted in said label number acceptance step, said position determination step comprises: a first mark position determination step for determining a position of one first mark in relation to one first label of said plural labels using said spacing distance acquired in said distance acquisition step; and a second mark position determination step for determining a position of at least one second mark respectively in relation to at least one second label other than said first label of said plural labels using a post-shifting spacing distance acquired by serially increasing or reducing a predetermined shift amount to/from said spacing distance.

9 . The recording medium according to claim 1 , wherein
in said position determination step, positions of said plural marks representing respectively said winding starting points corresponding to plural spacing distances determined in advance along an extension direction in which said winding part extends between said information print part and said adherend.

10 . The recording medium according to claim 1 , wherein
said steps further comprise: an outer shape acceptance step for accepting an operational input for a dimension of an outer shape of said adherend; and a distance acceptance step for accepting an operational input for a spacing distance along an extension direction in which said winding part extends between said information print part and said adherend, and the position of said mark is determined based on presence or absence of said operational input for said dimension of said outer shape in said outer shape acceptance step and presence or absence of said operational input for said spacing distance in said distance acceptance step.

11 . The recording medium according to claim 1 , wherein
in said position determination step, a position of an aim line or an aim mark to be printed on said winding part as said mark is determined, and in said mark data generation step, mark data to print said aim line or said aim mark in the position determined in said position determination step is generated.

12 . The recording medium according to claim 1 , wherein
the steps further comprise: an information data generation step for generating information data that corresponds to said information to be printed on said information print part; and an information data output step for outputting said information data generated in said information data generation step to said label producing apparatus.

13 . A label producing apparatus configured to produce a label that includes an information print part having information printed thereon and a winding part connected to said information print part and to be wound on a circular-pipe-like or a cable-like adherend, said label producing apparatus comprising:
a position determining portion configured to determine a position of a mark to be formed on said winding part and to be a guidepost for a position to wind said winding part on said adherend; a mark data generating portion configured to generate mark data to form said mark at the position determined by said position determining portion; and a mark forming portion configured to form said mark on said winding part based on said mark data generated by said mark data generating portion.

14 . The label producing apparatus according to claim 13 , wherein
said position determining portion determines positions of plural aim lines that are to be printed on said winding part as said marks and that represent respectively winding starting positions for said winding part on said adherend corresponding to plural spacing distances determined in advance along an extension direction in which said winding part extends between said information print part and said adherend, and said mark data generating portion generates said mark data to print said aim lines at the positions determined by said position determining portion.

15 . The label producing apparatus according to claim 14 , further comprising
an interval accepting portion configured to accept a setting input for intervals of said plural aim lines, wherein in the case that a values of each of the intervals of said aim lines accepted by said interval accepting portion are equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value, said position determi

Assignees

• Brother Ind Ltd

Inventors

• Yasui Ryo
• Mizutani Aiko

Classifications

• G06K15/024 Primary

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

• G05B15/02

  electric · CPC title

• G06K15/022

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

• G06K15/16

  Means for paper feeding or form feeding · CPC title

• G09F2003/0251

  Sleeve shaped label, i.e. wrapped around a device · CPC title