TAPE CARTRIDGE AND TAPE PRINTER

• Main Authors: SATO DAISUKE, NAKAYAMA TETSU, INOE SAEKO, KUBOTA TOMOYUKI, SUGAWARA AKITERU
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 24.08.2015
• Subjects: CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS; i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; LINING MACHINES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PRINTING; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS; STAMPS; TRANSPORTING; TYPEWRITERS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a tape printer which can identify a kind of a printing tape and can identify printing content of the printing tape which is discharged, and a tape cartridge which can suitably used in this tape printer.SOLUTION: A tape cartridge 70 includes a printing tape 74 which is stored in a cartridge case, a slit-like delivery port from which the printing tape 74 is delivered out, and a first and second sub display parts 86B which are provided on a wall surface of a front peripheral wall of the cartridge case having the delivery port and performs character representation of a kind of the printing tape 74. In the first and second sub display parts 86B, such character representation of the kind of the printing tape 74 is made by a normal image character based on the delivery port as a horizontal standard and a reversal character comprising vertically inverted normal image character. 【課題】印刷テープの種別を確認することができると共に、排出される印刷テープの印刷内容を確認できるテープ印刷装置を、またこのテープ印刷装置に好適に用いられるテープカートリッジを提供する。【解決手段】テープカートリッジ７０は、カートリッジケースに収容された印刷テープ７４と、印刷テープ７４が送り出されるスリット状の繰出し口と、繰出し口が形成されたカートリッジケースの前周壁の壁面に設けられ、印刷テープ７４の種別を文字表示する第１・第２副表示部８６Ｂと、を備え、第１・第２副表示部８６Ｂには、印刷テープ７４の種別が、繰出し口を水平基準とした正像文字と当該正像文字を上下反転した反転文字とで文字表示されている。【選択図】図７