A tape cassette includes a box-like housing, a tape mounted within the housing, a hole and a first indicator portion. The housing includes a top wall having a top surface, a bottom wall having a bottom surface and opposing the top wall, and a front wall having a specified height and being formed along peripheries of the top wall and the bottom wall. The hole is provided in the front wall. The first indicator portion includes at least one first aperture and indicates a first element among a plurality of elements of a type of the tape. The first indicator portion is provided in a portion, spaced from the front wall, of the bottom wall. The hole and the one first aperture is located to intersect a virtual line orthogonal to the front wall when viewing along a vertical direction orthogonal to the top wall and the bottom wall.

In an editing device, a controller is configured to perform: editing; and displaying. The editing edits print data for a composite label to be created by affixing at least one overlay label to a base label. A printer is configured to perform a single printing operation using an ink ribbon to print an object on a tape in a single printing color thereby creating a single label. The editing includes: determining a printing color of an object; categorizing the object to one of a base object and an overlay object; and setting a print mode to one of a shortest length mode in which a single overlay label is created for each overlay object and a fewest prints mode in which a single overlay label is created for all overlay objects having a same printing color. The displaying displays a composite label image based on the print data.

A tape cassette that includes a generally rectangular box-like housing having a top wall, a bottom wall, and a side wall defining a periphery of the housing, a first and second cavities extending from the bottom wall and disposed between a tape containing area and the periphery at opposite ends of a diagonal of the generally rectangular box-like housing, at least one tape wound and mounted within the housing in the tape containing area, the at least one tape including a first tape disposed in a first area, the first tape having a hole at a center of winding, and the first area being one of two areas formed by dividing the housing with respect to a line connecting the first and second cavities, and a third cavity that extends in the hole of the first tape from the bottom wall.

A print consumable may include a rotatable core, a roll of dispensable print substrate, and a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag. The roll of the dispensable print substrate may be dispensably secured to the core. The RFID tag may be secured to the core and configured to rotate about a core axis. The RFID tag includes an RFID antenna coupled to an RFID chip. The RFID chip may include a print counter, a stock-keeping unit (SKU) code, and a consumable authentication code. A print system may include a housing, a holder to hold the print consumable, a print head, a transceiver, a trace antenna for reading an RFID tag of the print consumable, and a controller. The controller may be configured to receive a signal from the transceiver indicative of one or more of the print counter, the SKU code, and the consumable authentication code received from the RFID antenna.

A printing cassette includes a case, a tape, and a label. The case includes a first case part and a second case part. The first case part and the second case part are coupled to each other. The tape is for printing. At least a portion of the tape is housed in the case. The label is provided with a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag having an antenna. The label is affixed across both the first case part and the second case part.

Disclosed is a tape supplying body including: a tape roll on which a tape to be fed to a tape printing apparatus is wound; a first member provided on a bottom surface of the tape roll; and a second member, wherein the second member has a running-onto prevention part that is provided at an upper surface of the tape roll and prevents the tape from running onto the tape roll, a tape receiving part that is provided at a bottom surface of the first member and receives the tape dropping from the first member, and a connection part that is provided on a radially outer side of the tape roll and connects the running-onto prevention part and the tape receiving part to each other.

Included are a rolled-paper accommodation unit configured to accommodate rolled paper; a thermal head that performs printing on recording paper pulled out from the rolled paper; a control unit configured to control the thermal head; an apparatus case in which the rolled-paper accommodation unit and the control unit are provided, the apparatus case having a first edge forming a discharge opening through which the recording paper on which the thermal head performed printing is discharged; and an opening/closing cover opening or closing the rolled-paper accommodation unit and having a second edge that faces the first edge to form the discharge opening when the opening/closing cover closes the rolled-paper accommodation unit. The rolled-paper accommodation unit is provided between the first edge of the apparatus case and the control unit.

A printer device includes a main housing including a print media cassette receiving slot. A first drive assembly of the main housing includes a motor operatively coupled to rotate a drive gear. A print media cassette is removably inserted into the print media cassette receiving slot, and includes a second drive assembly having a driven gear that is engaged with the drive gear. One of the drive gear or the driven gear is mounted for movement such that at least one of (i) a position of an axis of the drive gear is movable relative to the main housing or (ii) a position of an axis of the driven gear is movable relative to the printer cassette. A retaining mechanism includes a portion movable into a gear train coupling position in which the drive gear and the driven gear are held in driving contact with each other.

A printer is provided, which include: a pick-up roller; a capstan roller; a platen roller; and a cartridge, wherein the cartridge incudes: a cartridge housing, which includes a printing medium receiving groove in which the printing medium is loaded; a feeding bobbin on which a ribbon is wound, a take-up bobbin for winding up the ribbon, a first opening accommodated between the feeding bobbin and the take-up bobbin for guiding the printing medium to sequentially feed from a top stacked printing medium to pass between the feeding bobbin and the take-up bobbin therethrough; and a cam unit configured to install at a lower portion of the printer to pass the printing medium through the first opening after loading the printing medium if the cartridge is loaded, and to print the printing medium by loading the platen roller.

A sheet cassette configured to store a recording sheet and connectable to a printer includes a battery, a storage, a communication terminal, and an electrode terminal. The storage is configured to store information. The sheet cassette is configured to perform communications between the sheet cassette and the printer through the communication terminal. The sheet cassette is configured to supply the electric power of the battery to the printer through the electrode terminal.