CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION

This application is based upon and claims the benefit of priority from Japanese Patent Application No. 2020-004633, filed on Jan. 15, 2020, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.

FIELD

Embodiments described herein relate generally to a label printer and a label printer control program.

BACKGROUND

A label printer issues a label by executing printing on labels attached to a label mount, a backing sheet or the like. Such a label mount, backing sheet, or the like may be in the form a roll or the like. If a sensor detects a label that has been peeled off from a label mount while in a continuous label issuing mode, the printing operation can be stopped to prevent accidental entanglement, loss, or the like of the peeled-off label. After the temporary halt in the printing operation, a user generally must press one or more buttons to perform a position adjustment feeding to adjust a position of the labels or the label mount being fed for printing and then instruct the printer to resume the printing operation.

In such a label printer, however, even in a case where the possibility of accidental label entanglement is low (for example, in a case where a label has been totally peeled off and is not present on a label mount), the printing operation is stopped irrespective of a peel-off state or the degree of peel-off of a label. This causes a frequent interruption of the label printing whenever a label peel-off, whether partial or total, is detected, and a user has to adjust the feeding position, spending extra time and effort every time the label printing comes to an unexpected halt.

Hence, there is a need for a label printer and a label printer control program that can determine suitability of continuation of a printing operation depending on a peel-off state of a label from a mount.

