US 12,485,680 B2
Printing apparatus, printing method and medium
Kazunari Matsuura, Komaki (JP)
Assigned to Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Sep. 15, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/468,105.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-147137 (JP), filed on Sep. 15, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0092091 A1, Mar. 21, 2024
Int. Cl. B41J 3/407 (2006.01); B41J 15/04 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 3/4075 (2013.01) [B41J 15/042 (2013.01); B41J 15/046 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing apparatus comprising:
a holder configured such that a print medium wound in a roll shape is to be attached to the holder;
a printer configured to perform printing on the print medium;
a memory configured to store print condition information indicating a print condition regarding the print medium attached to the holder; and
a controller configured to execute a processing of printing the print condition information in a condition print area of a single line or a plurality of lines on the print medium by using the printer; wherein:
the controller is configured to, in the processing of printing the print condition information, determine a layout of the print condition information in the condition print area based on at least one of a shape or a size of the print medium;
the print medium includes a roll paper being a label paper wound in a roll shape, the label paper including a mount and a plurality of labels affixed to the mount;
the controller is configured to execute the processing of printing the print condition information in the condition print area of the single line or the plurality of lines on at least one of the plurality of labels based on at least one of a shape or a size of the at least one of the plurality of labels; and
the controller is configured to, in the processing of printing the print condition information, determine the layout of the print condition information in the condition print area based on the at least one of the shape or the size of the at least one of the plurality of labels,
wherein the printing apparatus further comprises:
a conveyor configured to convey the label paper drawn out from the roll paper attached to the holder; and
a reader arranged on a conveying route of the label paper, the reader being configured to read the print condition information printed on the at least one of the plurality of labels of the label paper,
wherein the controller is further configured to execute:
a processing of causing the conveyor to convey the label paper so that the condition print area is positioned at a reading position;
a processing of causing the reader to read the print condition information in a case that the condition print area is positioned at the reading position;
a processing of setting a print condition based on the read print condition information;
a processing of causing, after the processing of setting the print condition, the conveyor to convey the label paper so that the condition print area is positioned at a print position; and
a processing of causing the printer to further print a predetermined image on the condition print area positioned at the print position.