JP2559973Y2 - Printer - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a printer for printing on a tape-shaped print target.

[Related Art] Conventionally, a printer that prints on a tape-shaped print target has prepared a plurality of types of print tapes as print targets. These include a print tape that prints on the front side of the print tape and a print tape that prints on the back side of the print tape. The former is a tape that has an adhesive layer formed on the back of the printing tape and prints on the surface where the adhesive layer is not formed, and the latter is a tape that is printed on the back of a transparent printing tape so as not to expose the printing surface of the printing tape. This is a printing tape in which printing is performed, and a double-sided tape having the same width as the printing tape is attached to the printed printing surface.

Then, the characters printed on each print tape are normal normal image characters when printed on the surface of the print tape,
When printing on the back surface of the printing tape, the reverse character is a normal image character when viewed from the surface opposite to the printed surface.

In a printer capable of printing two types of printing tapes, each printing surface of the printing tape is mounted in a direction in which it comes into contact with a print head provided in the printer.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, with a print tape that prints on the front surface of the print tape and a print tape that prints on the back surface of the print tape, when each print surface is mounted on the printer with the print surface facing the print head, one of the prints is performed While the surface becomes the surface of the printing tape,
On the other hand, it is the direction of the back surface.

For this reason, one side of the printed printing tape is discharged to the operator facing the operator, while the other side is
The paper is discharged with the back side facing the operator.

That is, when the operator prints one print tape, the operator can check the printed print, but cannot check the print with the other print tape.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problem. In a printer that prints on a tape-shaped print target, the front or back surface of the print target after printing is visible according to the type of the print target. The purpose is to make it possible.

Means for Solving the Problems In order to achieve this object, a printer according to the present invention is a printer that prints on both the front side and the back side of a tape-shaped print target, and prints on the front side of the print target. When printing is performed, the printed object is discharged to the printer body in the first direction. When printing is performed on the back side of the printing object, the printed object is discharged to the printer body by the second direction. Switching means for switching to discharge in the direction of.

[Operation] In the printer of the present invention having the above configuration, when the switching means prints on the surface of the tape-shaped print target, the printed print target is discharged to the printer body in the first direction. When printing on the back side of the tape-shaped print target, the printed print target is discharged to the printer body in the second direction.

[Embodiment] An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. 1 to 7.

FIG. 1 shows a printer 1 (printer main body) of the present invention, and a keyboard unit having keys and dials for inputting data such as characters and symbols to the printer 1 on the upper surface of the printer 1. 3 and a display unit 5 for displaying the input data. A mounting section 9 for mounting the tape cassette 7 is provided on the left side of the printer 1. The mounting section 9 includes a thermal head 13 for printing on the printing tape 11, a tape feeding cam 15 for feeding the printed printing tape, and a winding cam 19 for winding an ink ribbon 17 described later. It is arranged. The tape feed cam 15 and the take-up cam 19 are interlocked with a motor 21 built in the printer 1, and the cams 15 and 19 rotate in the direction of the arrow by the rotation of the motor 21.
A printed tape is printed on the front side of the printer 1.
A discharge port 23 for discharging the 11 is provided, and a tape guide member 25 slidable in the up-down direction is provided near the lower portion thereof. The printing direction of the printed printing tape 11 can be changed by the tape guiding member 25.

Next, two types of tapes mounted on the printer 1 will be described with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3. The tape cassette 27 shown in FIG. It is. The printing tape 29 has a printing surface on the front surface, and a double-sided tape with release paper is attached on the back surface. Further, the printing tape 29 is wound in a roll shape and held rotatably on the rotating shaft 31, and is guided by the opening 33 of the tape cassette 27. Tape cassette 27
Is provided with an ink ribbon 17 having a surface coated with ink. One end and the other end of the ink ribbon 17 are wound around a supply spool 35 and a take-up spool 37 rotatably held on a tape cassette 27, respectively. It is exposed in the opening 33 of 27.

In this opening 33, the printing tape 29 and the ink ribbon
17 is arranged such that the surface of the printing tape 29, which is the printing surface, and the surface coated with the ink of the ink ribbon face each other, and the printing surface of the printing tape 29 faces the thermal head 13. In the tape cassette 27, a feed roller 39 for feeding a printed print tape is rotatably disposed at the opening 33.

When the tape cassette 27 is mounted on the mounting section 9 of the printer 1, the opening 33 of the tape cassette 27
The thermal head 13 is inserted, and the take-up spool 37 and the feed roller 39 are fed to the take-up cam 19 and the tape feed cam 15, respectively.
Engage. For this reason, the take-up spool 37 and the feed roller 39
Then, the take-up cam 19 and the tape feed cam 15 rotate to rotate in the direction of the arrow. Also, below the thermal head 13,
A pressure release member 41 for pressing the print tape 29 against the thermal head 13 and the feed roller 39 is provided. The printing tape 29 includes the pressure release member 41 and the thermal head 13.
The tape can be fed by pinching.

The printing surface of the printing tape 29 is a thermal head.
The operator faces the print surface in the direction of arrow A, which is a viewing direction from the upper right in FIG. The characters printed in this case are normal image characters.

Next, referring to the tape cassette 43 shown in FIG. 3, the tape cassette 43 is a tape cassette for performing printing on the back surface of the printing tape 45. The printing tape 45 is a transparent film-shaped tape, which is rotatably held by a rotating shaft 47 at a portion wound in a roll shape, and is guided by an opening 49. Further, the ink ribbon 51 is attached to the ribbon cassette 27 described above.
In the same manner as described above, it is wound around and mounted on the supply spool 53 and the take-up spool 55, and is guided to the opening 49 at a portion spanned by both spools 53 and 55. Also, tape cassette
43, a double-sided tape 57 having release paper bonded to one side is wound and held in a roll shape, and the double-sided tape 57 is a feed roller provided similarly to the tape cassette 27 described above.
It is wound around 59 and guided.

Then, when the tape cassette 43 is mounted on the mounting section 9, the thermal head 13 is inserted through the opening 49, and the tape feed cam 15 and the take-up cam 19 are engaged with the feed roller 59 and the take-up spool 55, respectively. Combine. The printing tape 45 is pressed by the thermal head 13 by the above-described pressure release member 41, and the printing tape 45 is further pressed by the feed roller 59, so that printing and tape feeding of the printing tape 45 are enabled. .

In the feed roller 59, the wound double-sided tape 57 and the printing tape 45 are integrated, and the double-sided tape 57 is bonded to the printing surface of the printing tape 45, so that the printing surface is not exposed. For this reason, the printed print is
From the non-printed side of the paper through the transparent printing tape 45 itself. That is, in this case, the printing surface of the printing tape 45 is the back surface of the printing tape 45 to which the double-sided tape 57 is bonded, and the front surface of the printing tape 45 faces downward. The characters to be printed are reverse characters.

On the other hand, the tape guide member 25 described above slides up and down as shown in FIGS. The tape guide member 25 has a curved surface 61 which is smoothly curved upward at an upper end thereof, and a roller 63 is rotatably supported at an upper end of the curved surface 61. The base portion 65 of the tape guide member 25 is provided with a signal protrusion 65 and a holding piece 69.

The printer 1 to which the tape guide member 25 is attached
On the front side surface 71, a discharge port 23 for discharging the tape is formed, a concave portion 73 that engages with the engaging protrusion 67 of the tape guide member 25, and a hole 75 through which the holding piece 69 is inserted is formed. Have been. The hole 75 is a hole in which the tape guide member 25 is vertically long. A projection (not shown) wider than the width of the hole 75 is formed at the tip of the holding piece 69.
Through the tape guide section 25
It is slidably mounted on 71.

On the other hand, a roller 77 is rotatably attached to the upper edge of the outlet 23 of the front side surface 71.

When the tape inner portion 25 thus configured is slid upward, the tape fed out by the curved surface 61 is bent upward at a right angle. Therefore, when printing the printing tape 45 of the tape cassette 43 shown in FIG. 3, the surface (visible surface) of the printing tape 45 facing downward can be set up vertically, and the operator looks directly at the surface of the printing tape 45. By doing so, the print applied to the back surface of the transparent printing tape 45 can be seen. When the visible surface is set upright, the back surface of the printing tape is substantially opposed to the viewing direction via the visible surface. When printing the printing tape 27 in the tape cassette 27 shown in FIG. 2,
The tape guide portion 25 can be slid downward so that the printed surface is kept facing upward.

Next, the control unit of the printer 1 will be described with reference to FIG. 4. Reference numeral 79 denotes a CPU. The CPU 79 receives a ROM 81 storing a program for controlling the operation of the CPU 79 and an input from the keyboard unit 3. A RAM 83 in which the stored data and the like are stored is connected. The CPU 79 is connected to the keyboard unit 3 for inputting data to the printer 1, and further includes a motor drive circuit 85, a display drive circuit 87, and a print head drive circuit 89.
Is connected. The motor drive circuit 85 is a circuit for rotating a motor based on print data output from the CPU 79, and the motor 21 is connected to the motor drive circuit 85.
The display drive circuit 87 is a circuit for rotating the motor 21 based on the print data output from the CPU 79. The display 9 is connected to the display drive circuit 87. The print head drive circuit 89 operates based on the print data output from the CPU 79. The thermal head 13 is connected to a circuit for driving the head 13.

Next, another embodiment of the present invention is shown in FIGS.
In the second embodiment, the mounting portion 91 of the tape cassette 7 including the printing mechanism is rotatable. This mounting part 91
Has a discharge port 92 formed on the peripheral surface thereof, and the peripheral surface is rotatable by 90 °. A motor 21 for feeding the printing tape 11 and a thermal head 13 are built in the mounting section 91, and the other components in FIG. 4 are provided on a base section 93 of the printer. Note that the mounting portion 91 is
6 and 7, the motor 21 and the thermal head 13 are rotatable with respect to the printer body.
Are electrically connected to a motor drive circuit 85 and a print head drive circuit 89, respectively, inside the printer.

In the second embodiment, as shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, by rotating the mounting portion 91, the front and back surfaces of the printing tape can be made visible to the operator.

[Effects of the Invention] As is clear from the above description, according to the present invention, when the switching unit prints on the surface of the tape-shaped print target, the printed print target is sent to the printer body. When printing on the back side of the tape-shaped print target, the printed print target is discharged to the printer body in the second direction. For this reason, the operator can easily view the printed content even if the printed content is printed on the front side of the print target or the back side of the print target even if the operator does not touch the print target. Can be.

[Brief description of the drawings]

1 to 7 show an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing the appearance of the printer of the present invention, FIG. 2 and FIG. 3 are top sectional views showing the mounting state of the tape cassette, FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing the components of the printer, and FIG. 7 are perspective views showing the appearance of the printer of the second embodiment. In the figure, 1 is a printer, 7, 27 and 43 are tape cassettes, 1
1, 29, 45 printing tape, 13 is a thermal head, 17 and 51 are ink ribbons, 23 is an outlet, 25 is a tape guide member, 9,
Reference numeral 91 denotes a mounting portion, and 93 denotes a base portion.

Claims (1)

(57) [Scope of request for utility model registration] In a printer for printing on both the front side and the back side of a tape-shaped print target, when printing on the front side of the print target, the printed print target is firstly transferred to a printer main body. A printer which comprises a switching means for switching the print object to be ejected in a second direction when the print object is ejected in a second direction when the print object is ejected in the direction opposite to the back side of the print object. .