Tape printer
US5253334A · kind A · utility
Assignee
Inventors
Key dates
| Filing date | Feb 5, 1993 |
| Grant date | Oct 12, 1993 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 5, 2013 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB41J3/4075
- WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A tape printer unit comprises a housing, a printer unit provided in the housing, a keyboard on the housing, and a cassette accommodating an adhesive tape and ink ribbon the cassette being removablely attached in the printer unit. The tape printer unit prints data input from the keyboard on the adhesive tape, and feeds the printed adhesive tape to the outside of the housing. The tape printer unit is capable of being used with several different cassettes respectively accommodating adhesive tapes which are of different width from each other, and can automatically print the data according to the width of the adhesive tape accommodated in the cassette which has been attached in the printer unit.
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