Seiko Epson Corporation

Reiko Nomura

Ikumi Watanabe

Akemi Ito

Takuya Yasue

Takashi Kato

Makoto Oyanagi

Kiyoshi Mukaiyama

Shuichi Shima

Kenichiro Ogawa

A printer includes a printing unit, a plurality of paper feeding units, a storage unit and a control unit. The printing unit is configured and arranged to execute printing based on a printing job. The paper feeding units are configured and arranged to supply paper to the printing unit. The storage unit is configured and arranged to correlate and store the paper feeding units and attributes of the paper held in the paper supply units. The control unit is configured to compare the attributes of the paper correlated with the paper feeding units with attributes of the paper specified with a printing job, and when there is no paper feeding unit for which the attributes correlated therewith is consistent with the attributes specified with the printing job, to display on a screen one of the paper feeding units in which to place the paper specified with the printing job.

Printer and printer control method

A printer includes a display unit, a printing unit and a printing control unit. The display unit is configured and arranged to display a paper registration screen for registering or confirming attributes of paper held in a paper feeding unit when display conditions have been satisfied. The printing unit is configured and arranged to execute printing. The printing control unit is configured to, when prescribed printing start conditions are satisfied during a period in which the paper registration screen is being displayed, control the printing unit to start printing job using the attributes registered before display of the paper registration screen as the attributes of the paper held in the paper feeding unit used with the printing job.

Printer with display unit for displaying paper registration screen and storing unit for storing attribute of paper associated with paper feeding unit

A printer includes a printing unit, a paper feeding unit, a display unit and a control unit. The printing unit is configured and arranged to execute printing. The paper feeding unit is configured and arranged to hold paper. The display unit is configured and arranged to display a paper registration screen for registering or confirming attributes of the paper according to an operation on the paper feeding unit. The control unit is configured not to display the paper registration screen when non-display conditions have been satisfied even when the operation is performed.

Printer including display for displaying paper registration screen

Disclosed is a printer for performing a process on the basis of received print data, the process including feeding a print sheet for a page, printing on the fed sheet, and ejecting the printed sheet. The printer includes a controller that allows a sheet for a succeeding page to be ejected without being printed when allowing the sheet for the succeeding page to be fed before completion of the process on another sheet for a preceding page which is in progress and then recognizing the end of a print data block corresponding to the succeeding page.

Printer and method of controlling the same

A printerhas an I/F sectionfor receiving data from a PC, a parameter-deriving sectionfor deriving a control constant on the basis of print setting information included in the received data, and a printer sectionwhich performs printing operation on the basis of the print setting information, the control constant, and print data included in the received data.

Printer, and method for controlling print controller

A file management apparatus includes the following elements: a first non-volatile storage medium that holds a metadata group including a plurality of pieces of metadata corresponding to a predetermined file type; a detector that detects a file of the predetermined file type; a metadata guide unit that introduces, as selection options, the plurality of pieces of metadata included in the metadata group corresponding to the predetermined file type of the detected file; a metadata selection unit that accepts selection of at least one piece of the introduced metadata; and a management data storage unit that stores the selected metadata in association with the detected file in a second non-volatile storage medium in which the detected file is stored.

File management apparatus

A dot-matrix printer for printing on a printing medium comprises a dot-forming section for forming dots on the printing medium; and a referenced data section to be referred to during movement of the dot-forming section, a character string to be printed being indicated as data having a predetermined resolution. Where M dots per a unit length are formable on the printing medium in a moving direction of the dot-forming section, and upon printing an N-character string per the unit length, M and N both being natural numbers, if (M&divide;N) is not a natural number, the resolution in the moving direction is made to be L per N-character string, L being a least common multiple of M and N, and while the dot-forming section moves across the unit length, the dot-matrix printer prints while referring to the referenced data section for L times.

Dot-matrix printer and printing method

When 31-dot space data specified in 120 dpi from a host is expanded in an image buffer in 90 dpi, a command interpretation section of a printer finds 23/90 dots and an error corresponding to 31/120 by calculation. Error correction information indicating occurrence of the error and the error amount is placed at a position in the image buffer where print data cannot exist. An engine control section of the printer controls head drive in the amount to which the shift distance as long as error correction is added based on the error correction information

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Nagano, Japan

Reiko Nomura