Seiko Epson Corporation

Yuki Kuwahara

Takefumi Inui

Shuichi Koganehira

Keiichi Taguchi

Kenji Matsumoto

Tatsuo Akasaka

Tomohiko Sano

Shigeru Tsuji

A printing apparatus includes a printing unit that performs a printing operation, a print setting unit that performs setting of the printing operation, and a touch panel that displays an object related to the setting and receives a pressing operation. The touch panel displays operation objects corresponding to a multi-level changeable operation parameter of the printing operation and when the pressing operation is performed on a position where the operation object is displayed, the touch panel changes a temporary setting value of the operation parameter, which is shown by a display object displayed at a position different from that of the operation object, according to a magnitude of pressing force. The print setting unit decides the temporary setting value, which is obtained when a determination operation different from the pressing operation is performed, as a setting value of the operation parameter.

Printing apparatus, electronic device, control program, and operation parameter setting method of printing apparatus

The invention relates to a method of charging for ink in an ink container consumed by a printing unit during printing. The method of charging includes obtaining information on an amount of the ink consumed; and implementing charging on the basis of the information. Before the amount of the ink in the ink container consumed reaches a predetermined value, first charging is implemented according to a charging basis in which usage-based charging is implemented on the basis of the amount of the ink consumed. After the amount of the ink consumed reaches the predetermined value, second charging is implemented according to a charging basis different from the charging basis applied to the first charging.

Charging method and charging system

An information processing device includes an ink distribution amount computation unit that computes an i-th (where i is an integer greater than or equal to one) ink distribution amount distributed to an i-th recording job which is performed by a recording apparatus according to an i-th ink distribution ratio obtained from division of an i-th total consumption amount cumulative total by an i-th recording consumption amount cumulative total.

Information processing device and program

When color measurement is performed, a printer driver of a host apparatustransmits a job start command 'JS' to a printer, then performs printing instruction (print data transmission for color measurement printing), color measurement instruction, reception of a color measurement result (color measurement data) from a color measuring device (a color meterand a color measurement driving device), label printing instruction, job information storage instruction, and positioning instruction, and subsequently transmits a job end command 'JE' to the printer. During a period from the job start command &#x201c;JS&#x201d; until the job end command &#x201c;JE&#x201d; is received, a communication connect between the printerand the host apparatusis maintained while an interrupt from other than the host apparatusis inhibited.

Processing system and processing method for processing system

A printer systemincludes a printer, a winding device, a color meter, and a color measurement driving device. A host communication sectionof the printer 10 is communicably connected to device communication sectionstoof the devices, and. In the device communication sectionsandof the devicesand, a printer class is set as a device class. Print data that includes commands for control the devicesandis transmitted from a second printer driverof the printerto the devicesand. The printerand the devicesandare provided with an ESC/P analyzing section that can analyze print data.

Electronic device system and control method in electronic device system in which a second device is controlled using a command from a first device

A system, method and apparatus for controlling a device to operate to an operation position specified by a value of a first coordinate on a target, even if a target is misaligned. The system includes a first printer driver in a host apparatus that generates a command with an operation position of a color measurement carriage of a color measurement driving device specified as a value of a logical coordinate system on paper and a second printer driver in the printer that converts the value in the command from the logical coordinate system to a real coordinate system, incorporates the command with the value of the real coordinate system specified into print data, and transmits print data to the color measurement driving device.

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Shiojiri, Japan

Yuki Kuwahara