Seiko Epson Corporation

Takaaki Taniguchi

Hideki Nishimura

Masakazu Honma

Tomoaki Kuwabara

Atsushi Nishioka

Junichi Otsuka

A control system includes a terminal device including a first communication unit configured to perform first Bluetooth communication and second Bluetooth communication, and a printing apparatus including a second communication unit that is connected by pairing to the terminal device to perform the second Bluetooth communication with the first communication unit, wherein the terminal device performs the first Bluetooth communication in a state where no pairing connection is made with the printing apparatus, and transmits a notification instruction command to the printing apparatus through the first communication unit, and wherein the printing apparatus performs a notification operation based on the notification instruction command when receiving the notification instruction command through the second communication unit based on the first Bluetooth communication.

Control system and printing apparatus for performing a pairing connection to a terminal device

Control system and printing apparatus

Content of a configuration file stored by a control device can be changed easily in a short time. A printing system has a host computer including a print control unit that generates and sends a control command causing printing referenced to a configuration file to a printer using a printing port, and a settings changing unit that changes settings information based on the change settings command when a change settings command instructing changing settings information in the configuration file is input from the server device using a configuration port; and a management server including a change settings command unit that, for a specific one or plural connected host computers, generates a change settings command related to the configuration file, and sends the change settings command to each host computer using a configuration port that is opened by each host computer.

Receipt printing system, control method of a receipt printing system, and control device

A feature of the recording device is used to shorten the length of time that a wireless communication link with a recording device is not established for a control device that communicates wirelessly with a recording device when a wireless communication link can be established. A communication control unitof a host computerdetects and reports to a recording control unitthat printerpower was turned off. After receiving this report that the printerpower is off from the communication control unit, the recording control unitrequests the communication control unitto establish a wireless communication link with the printerand open a virtual COM port during the period until a new wireless communication link with the printeris established.

Control device, control method of a control device, and a storage medium

A label printer can reliably print an object in a desired position in the printing area of a recording medium. The label printer has a carriage that moves bi-directionally in a main scanning direction over a disc-shaped recording medium; a printer tray that is disposed movably in a subscanning direction with the recording medium placed thereon; an ink head that is disposed to the carriage and prints a desired object by discharging ink to a printing area on the recording medium in conjunction with movement of the carriage in the main scanning direction and movement of the printer tray in the subscanning direction; a detection unit that is disposed to the carriage and detects a reference position alignment mark that indicates a position used as a reference for appropriately printing the object in the printing area of the recording medium; and a printing position control unit that rotates the recording medium so that the object is printed in the printing area of the recording medium based on the reference position alignment mark detection result from the detection unit.

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Ueda, Japan

Takaaki Taniguchi