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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2021
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroyuki Kuramoto, Shiojiri, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A printing device printing on a medium while being manually moved in relation to the medium is provided. The printing device includes: a job acquisition unit acquiring a print job designating a direction of movement of the printing device as viewed from the printing device; a print head printing on the medium, based on the print job; a detection unit detecting a direction of movement of the printing device as viewed from the printing device; a direction determination unit determining whether or not a detected direction, which is the direction of movement of the printing device detected by the detection device, is different from a designated direction, which is the direction of movement of the printing device designated by the print job; and a notification control unit performing error notification processing when the direction determination unit determines that the detected direction is different from the designated direction.