US 12,220,910 B2
Printing device configured to determine reverse conveyance amount of printing medium based on control information acquired from cassette, and cassette attachable to the printing device
Kentaro Murayama, Kasugai (JP)
Assigned to BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Dec. 16, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/552,985.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-218629 (JP), filed on Dec. 28, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0203725 A1, Jun. 30, 2022
Int. Cl. B41J 15/04 (2006.01); B41J 3/407 (2006.01); B41J 11/70 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 15/044 (2013.01) [B41J 3/4075 (2013.01); B41J 11/703 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing device comprising;
an attachment portion configured to detachably receive a cassette accommodating a tape-like printing medium;
a conveying portion configured to convey the printing medium in a normal conveying direction and in a reverse conveying direction opposite each other;
a printing portion configured to perform printing on the printing medium;
a cutter portion configured to cut the printing medium after the printing; and
a controller configured to perform:
a conveying process to control the conveying portion to convey the printing medium in the normal conveying direction from the printing portion to the cutter portion;
a cutting process to control the cutter portion to cut the printing medium to separate a portion of the printing medium printed by the printing portion from a remaining non-printed portion of the printing medium;
an acquisition process to acquire control information from the cassette by reading the control information stored in an electric circuit of the cassette received in the attachment portion, the control information being information determined by a type of the printing medium of the cassette received in the attachment portion;
a determination process to adjust a reverse conveyance amount of the printing medium specific to the type of the printing medium by using a value obtained from the control information that is read from the electric circuit of the cassette and that is acquired in the acquisition process; and
a reverse conveying process to control the conveying portion to convey the remaining non-printed portion of the printing medium in the reverse conveying direction from the cutter portion to the printing portion by the reverse conveyance amount determined in the determination process.