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Character information printing apparatus

US6134016A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 14, 1997
Grant dateOct 17, 2000
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Expiry dateAug 14, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F40/103
  • WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

The present invention relates to a character information printing apparatus for printing a previously inputted character string on a print medium in which at least a transversal dimension is fixed. The apparatus is adapted to introduce instruction information as to a special printing in which, when X print medium portions on which printings are completed are arranged contiguously in the longitudinal and transversal directions thereof, one quasi print resultant having a dimension X times that of each of the print medium portions is obtained. The apparatus includes special printing introducing means for introducing either an operation of performing printing on all the X print medium portions or an operation of performing printing on a part of the print medium portions located in a position specified in the print resultant; print attribute determining means for determining a print attribute, such as character position, with respect to each of the print medium portions; and printing means for printing, when the instruction of performing printing on a part of the print medium portions located in the position thus specified, a character string portion corresponding to the specified posit…

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