Label printing apparatus
US5967679A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 24, 1998 |
| Grant date | Oct 19, 1999 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 24, 2018 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06K2215/0097
- WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A label printing apparatus having an input device for determining a predetermined label length and selecting one or more of plurality of characters for composing a label having one or more lines of characters in the length; a memory for storing font data defining the plurality of characters; a display for displaying the characters selected at the input device; a printer for printing the selected characters on an image receiving tape to produce a label; and a controller operable to determine an appropriate character size such that the number of characters selected by a user can be accommodated on the predetermined length of tape, wherein the controller is operable to apply a scaling factor to the font data according to the appropriate character size to optimize the size of the characters within the predetermined label length. Also a method of formatting a variable length character string to fit within a region of fixed dimension, by retrieving a string of characters from an input device; determining the length of a region of fixed dimension; determining an appropriate character size such that the number of characters can be accommodated with the region of fixed dimension; and optimi…
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