Conventionally, various kinds of technologies have been suggested for creating and editing print data to be printed on a print medium such as a long tape or a rolled sheet or the like.
For instance, a tape printing control device comprises: a first storage section for storing a first character string to be printed on a tape-like print medium; a first image generation section for generating a print image in which the first character string stored in the first storage section is arranged along a width direction of the tape-like print medium; a second image generation section for generating a print image in which the first character string stored in the first storage section is arranged along a lengthwise direction of the tape-like print medium; and a print control section for executing print control so that the print image generated by one of the first and second image generation sections will be printed on the tape-like print medium first and thereafter the print image generated by the other will be printed on the tape-like print medium (for example, Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2004-148758).
However, with the structure disclosed in the above-mentioned Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2004-148758, after a plurality of objects have been inputted to a print area of the print medium for printing, if these objects are changed to and printed as objects including a first type of information, which is the same as the information included in any of the objects, the rest of the objects all have to be changed to objects including same information. This makes the change operation complicated.