To provide a handy terminal which has various different printing formats with affluent usable colors that facilitate management of consumption articles, and a gauge inspection system for inspecting various meters at a time with the use of the handy terminal.

In the handy terminal which has a plurality of printing formats and writes variable data to a predetermined position of the printing format selected from the plurality of the formats, a multi-color recording medium is used which generates a desired color in accordance with a temperature applied under a predetermined pressure. Moreover, the handy terminal has a control means for controlling a platen roller and a thermal line head to apply the temperature and the pressure to the multi-color recording medium so that the desired color is generated.