Medicine bag printing apparatus

PURPOSE:To save the manpower for medicine bag writing work and make out medicine bags in according with the order of a patient by providing plural sets of printers, and executing the printing processing in accordance with the order receipt of a prescription slip, at the time of executing the medicine bag printing processing in accordance with the prescription slip. CONSTITUTION:This medicine bag printer A controlled through a controller C by a computer Cp of a pharmacist's office, based on data related to a prescription slip outputted from terminal computers T1-Tn of each medical examination department in a hospital is constituted by placing plural sets of printers P (P1-Pn) on a shelf of printer containing case 2. To a paper discharge part of each printer P, an initial end of each carrying path in a carrying device H is connected, and each carrying path passes through a chute, etc., and is joined on the way, and thereafter, its final end is connected to a medicine bag taking- out part. In such a state, in each printer P, the printing processing is executed in accordance with the order of receipt of the prescription slip, by which the medicine bags are made out in accordance with the order of a patient and discharged to the medicine bag taking-out part.