US 11,813,849 B2
Tape printing apparatus, information processing apparatus, method for controlling tape printing apparatus, and storage medium
Naofumi Hirabayashi, Suwa (JP)
Assigned to SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Mar. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/215,142.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-059829 (JP), filed on Mar. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0300068 A1, Sep. 30, 2021
Int. Cl. B41J 11/00 (2006.01); B41J 3/407 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 11/009 (2013.01) [B41J 3/4075 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A tape printing apparatus, comprising:
a printing unit that performs printing on a printing tape;
a storage control unit that causes a storage unit to store a text file that contains a text in association with information that indicates a type of the printing tape;
a detection unit that detects the type of the printing tape that is a target of printing;
an extraction unit that extracts, out of the storage unit, the text file associated with the information that indicates the type of the printing tape detected by the detection unit; and
a display control unit that causes a display unit to display the extracted text file as a selection candidate for the text file that is to be printed on the printing tape, wherein
the extraction unit extracts the text file such that the text file extracted when a first type is detected as the type of the printing tape by the detection unit is different from the text file extracted when a second type is detected as the type of the printing tape by the detection unit, the first type is a type in which a printable area where printing is able to be performed is pre-determined in a printing layer of the printing tape, and the second type is a type in which the printable area is not pre-determined in the printing layer of the printing tape.