Tape cassette housing for a tape cassette and tape printer for use therewith.

摘要

A tape cassette housing for a label tape cassette or a lettering tape cassette for use in a tape printer for performing a printing operation is provided. In order to have a tape cassette which is richly versatile and permits production of a label tape cassette or lettering tape cassette, simple in construction and operation and inexpensive. A first accommodation section for selectively accommodating an ordinary heat transfer type image source tape (215) or a heat transfer type image source tape (322) for lettering is provided. Furtheron a second accommodating section for selectively accommodating an ordinary heat transfer type image receiving tape (217) or a heat transfer type image receiving tape (324) for lettering is provided. The cassette housing further comprises a printing section in which either one of said image source tapes or the corresponding image receiving tape are run in an overlapped state. Furtheron a third accommodation section for accommodating an adhesive tape (219) and a tape outlet (253a) are provided.