US 12,251,928 B2
Printing device setting printing area, anchor area, and adhesive area in tape for performing half cut at boundaries therebetween
Kiyoshi Sugimoto, Kuwana (JP)
Assigned to BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Sep. 14, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/932,195.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-161428 (JP), filed on Sep. 30, 2021; and application No. 2021-161437 (JP), filed on Sep. 30, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0106810 A1, Apr. 6, 2023
Int. Cl. B41J 11/66 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 11/663 (2013.01) 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing device comprising:
a print head configured to print an image on a base material;
a conveyer configured to convey in a conveying direction a tape in which a release material and the base material are bonded together;
a cutter configured to perform: a half cut to cut through the release material but not the base material; and a full cut to cut through both the base material and the release material; and
a controller configured to control the print head, the conveyer and the cutter,
wherein the controller is configured to further perform, as a main process:
a length acquisition process to acquire an outer circumferential length of an object around which a label cut from the tape is to be wrapped;
an image acquisition process to acquire the image to be printed;
at least one of a first area setting process and a second area setting process, both the first area setting process and the second area setting process setting a printing area, an anchor area, and an adhesive area in the tape on the basis of the acquired outer circumferential length, the image being to be printed in the printing area, the anchor area being next to the printing area on one side in the conveying direction, the adhesive area being next to the printing area on a remaining side in the conveying direction, the one side in the conveying direction being one of an upstream side and a downstream side in the conveying direction, the remaining side in the conveying direction being a remaining one of the upstream side and the downstream side in the conveying direction, wherein in the first area setting process the adhesive area is set to have a length in the conveying direction to be equal to a lamination length, and the lamination length is set to be larger than or equal to a sum of: a difference obtained by subtracting a length of the printing area in the conveying direction from the acquired outer circumferential length; and a length from an end of the printing area on the one side in the conveying direction to an end of the image to be printed on the remaining side in the conveying direction, wherein in the second area setting process the printing area is set to have a length in the conveying direction to be larger than or equal to the acquired outer circumferential length;
a printing process to control the print head and the conveyer to print the image in the printing area;
a first half cut process to control the cutter to perform the half cut to cut across the tape in a width direction thereof at a boundary between the printing area and the anchor area;
a second half cut process to control the cutter to perform the half cut to cut across the tape in the width direction at a boundary between the printing area and the adhesive area; and
a full cut process to control the cutter to perform the full cut at one of an end of the anchor area on the one side in the conveying direction and an end of the adhesive area on the remaining side in the conveying direction.