Seiko Epson Corporation

Michitoshi Ishihara

Sunao Murata

Noriyoshi Chiba

Michio Yoshitake

Kazuyoshi Utsumi

Masahiro Nakatsuji

Akira Suzuji

A printing system that comprises a host computerand a printerin combination. As the printeris used one that can process a first class print request including a control program and print data and a second class print request including only print data, and, when an ID output request is received, sends a control program ID as identification information of a control program stored inside the printerat that point of time. Printer control softwareis installed on the host computerto put the computerin a state that, when a print request is to be outputted to the printerthe computerverifies whether a required control program is stored within the printerand the computersends a second class print request to the printerwhen storing of the control program is verified, and sends a first class print request to the printerwhen storing of the control program is not verified. Thus, it is possible to realize a printing system including a such type of printer that can process print data of various language and downloads a control program, having a shorter average time required for printing.

Printing system in which programs required for printer operation are downloaded from computer

A general-purpose system for enabling the user to easily enter characters whose contents are hard to understand at a glance, such as bar codes, by using a general-purpose application program such as a wordprocessor is provided. For this purpose, a printer driver comprising a font file storing a display font and a bar code record font corresponding to the display font and a conversion function of converting display font codes into record font codes is provided. When a bar code is entered in an application program, a legible display font corresponding to the bar code can be used. On the other hand, when the bar code is printed, the printer driver compatible with a given printer converts the display font into a bar code record font and supplies the bar code record font. Thus, a high-accuracy bar code is printed in accordance with the standard.

Recording device and recording method

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Nagano-ken, Japan

Michitoshi Ishihara