Seiko Epson Corporation

Susumu Shiohara

Toshifumi Yamaji

Kazuhito Gassho

Hitoshi Ishida

Tatsuya Kiyono

Toshihiro Shima

Toshihiro Tsukada

Takuya Sugimoto

Yoshiyuki Ono

Hikonosuke Uwai

Masahiro Owa

Norishige Kakuno

Kazuhiko Iida

Michio Maruyama

Tadashi Kobayashi

Haruo Tsurumaki

Tsutomu Kasai

Ryoichi Shimizu

Additional information can be appropriately added to an area in a template. The web application execution unit of a printer displays a print layout on a control device in a format enabling adding additional information to areas formed in the printing area of a print medium based on a first template, and when additional information is added to one area, changes to a format reflecting the additional information applied to the one area, and displays the print layout.

Printer device, method, and control device for print templates

A recording device includes a recording unit that performs a recording operation, a first storage unit that stores a first template associated with a recording form, a second storage unit that store a second template corresponding to the first template, and a recording control unit that takes the second template corresponding to the designated first template from the second storage unit and gets the recording unit to perform the recording operation by using the second template when a recording instruction containing data designating the first template is input.

Printing device and control method of printing device

A printer switches between and uses plural communication units according to the operating mode, can switch the operating mode appropriately to the operating conditions, and can improve power conservation. The printer has a network control unit with a first communication unit configured to communicate in a first operating mode; and a main control unit having a second communication unit configured to communicate in a second operating mode. The main control unit limits the power supply to the first communication unit in the second operating mode; and the second communication unit determines whether or not to go to the first operating mode based on content of data received in the second operating mode.

Control method, printer, and storage medium

A relay stationconstructs an infrastructure wireless networkL. A printing devicerequests new participation in the wireless networkL. When preset conditions are satisfied, for example, when the user has pressed a push buttonprovided on the relay station, the relay stationestablishes temporary wireless communication with the printing deviceand changes an SSID of the printing deviceto an SSID of the relay station. In this manner, this arrangement readily changes the configuration information of the printing device

Method of setting wireless communication device

Using the ability to print according to a template, a recording device adds value to the printed output. A printer in a recording control system stores area definition data defining areas in each of a plurality of templates composed of one or more printing areas. When a control command is received from a host computer, the printer records images in areas of a template based on the area definition data of the areas in the specified template. To record images related to a particular product with the printer, the host computer gets product information related to the product, and generates and sends a control command to convert and record information related to a specific area in the template based on the product information.

Recording control system, control method of a recording control system, and recording device

An image processing device that changes the output format of the generated printout can dynamically change the output format of the printout using print data from an existing system. An image processing device that executes a process to change the output format of a printout has an output format selector that selects a template determining the format of the printout based on information contained in the print data for the printout, and a print data generator that changes the print data according to the selected template.

Image processing device, printing device, and image processing method

Printing device and control method of a printing device and print templates

Printing device and control method for printing device

A data processing apparatus includes a processing unit that distinguishes a command of a first command system including commands designating attributes of a printing form and a command of a second command system including commands designating attributes that are not defined in the first command system. When a recording instruction including an instruction designating the printing form by a command of the first command system and data arranged in accordance with the printing form designated by the command of the first command system are input, the processing unit arranges the data included in the recording instruction in accordance with a printing form designated by the command of the second command system to generate recording data.

Data processing apparatus, recording apparatus and control method of the data processing apparatus

Recording device and control method of the recording device

A network system including a plurality of devices connected to one another via a network includes a grouping processing section configured to, from among the plurality of devices, perform grouping of devices having at least one predetermined item common thereto in terms of device usage, and a representative selection section configured to select one of the devices having been grouped as a representative device. Further, the network system includes a control section configured to cause non-representative devices, which are remaining devices resulting from excluding the representative device from the devices having been grouped, to perform synchronously a mode switching operation for switching between a normal mode and a power saving mode in which an amount of power consumption is smaller than that in the normal mode, and cause the representative device to perform the mode switching operation independently of the mode switching operation performed by the non-representative devices.

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Nagano-ken, Japan

Susumu Shiohara