Label printer

• US 4,878,771 A
• Filed: 06/24/1988
• Issued: 11/07/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 05/22/1986
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Tokyo Electric Co.
• Original Assignee: Tokyo Electric Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Nishida, Manabu
• Primary Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Application Number:
  US07/212,159
• Time in Patent Office: 501 Days
• Field of Search: 400/103, 400/73, 400/76, 400/70, 101/288, 364/403, 177/4
• US Class Current: 400/70
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 1/121 by printing code marks applying code marks to labels B65C9/46; marking or coding completed packages B65B61/26
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders

Abstract

A label printer is disclosed adapted to establish and store therein a set of retrieval codes in which at least one condition of the various conditions of the place where each commodity is kept in stock is encoded and to issue labels in succession for each commodity whose item number satisfies the conditions of the retrieval code, whereby stock control of the commodities is enabled to be easily performed without preparing any special table or the like.

Claims

1. A label printer comprising:

a central processing unit;

a keyboard comprising means for inputting data to the central processing unit;

a printer unit comprising means for outputting data from the central processing unit;

a display unit for displaying data from the central processing unit; and

a random access memory connected to said central processing unit, said memory having PLU memory means including;

(a) means for storing commodity item numbers,

(b) means for storing PLU numbers,

(c) means for storing commodity names,

(d) means for storing bar code data,

(e) means for storing a number of sheets issued from the printer unit,

(f) means for storing department codes,

(g) means for storing commodity prices, and

(h) retrieval storage means for storing commodity retrieval codes comprising data for the conditions of the place where each commodity is physically located, including the order of display, shelf number, gondola number, passage number and the number of said commodities located at said place, said retrieval storage means enabling said printer unit to print and issue labels including bar code, department code and price for commodities corresponding to a retrieval code inputted from said keyboard, whereby the labels may be printed and issued for commodities where only the conditions of the place where the commodity is physically located is known.