Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Shinya Goto

Shigeru Sakamoto

In a printer to which a printer consumable material holder for supplying a printing medium is detachably mounted or in a digital camera which integrally includes this printer, image processes suitable for various printing media capable of being supplied can be performed. To do so, an information memory unit for storing information of the printing media is provided in the printer consumable material holder. In association with this, a unit for receiving the information, and a unit for analyzing the received information and determining an optimum image processing method for performing printing on the printing medium are provided in the printer. In a system structured by combining these units, the optimum image process is automatically adopted on the basis of the information stored in the printer consumable material holder.

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A cradle for a portable terminal includes a connection unit for connecting a portable terminal, a print instruction key for a user to instruct print, and a storage unit for storing print information previously reserved. When the portable terminal is connected to the connection unit, and the print instruction key is pressed down, a predetermined image is printed based on the print information previously reserved in the portable terminal.

Cradle for portable terminal for printing image based on print information previously reserved with portable terminal at the time connection to portable terminal

There is provided a character-string information output apparatus that can avoid any confusion due to a difference between character string commands, and that can improve its expandability. An image writing apparatus analyzes commands identical in information content to character string information to which an input instruction has been issued. The analyzed support commands are all written onto a nonvolatile memory through a card drive. On the other hand, an electrophotographic image processing apparatus searches a DPOF file on the nonvolatile memory for all commands through a card read drive. From among the searched commands, a command that the electrophotographic image processing apparatus can support is extracted as a target command for the electrophotographic image processing apparatus. Then, the ROM is searched to determine whether there is font information to output the character string information included in the extracted command, so that the character string information is outputted based on the searched font information.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Shinya Goto