Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Hisanobu Hori

Kiichiro Tanaka

Fumio Fukushige

A printing device according to the present invention can be connected to various computers or the like. A large number of data items for setting various functions are already stored in a storing device of the printing device, and these data items are classified into a multi-step hierarchy to enable the selection of data items of different hierarchies, whereby the functions of the printing device can be set. The printing device is characterized in that, when data of a certain hierarchy is determined, at least one data item of the next hierarchy is arranged to be displayed by a display device, so that the number of key operations is reduced to facilitate data selection.

Printing device

A printer having a controller which moves a carriage according to the operation of a switch, and stores the location of the carriage at the moment when a margin setting switch has been depressed as margin location data. In case of a connection to an external data source, the setting of a margin location can be done at any time except when the printer is in a printing mode.

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Oonojou, Japan

Hisanobu Hori