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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2018
Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Keisuke Okawa, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Kawano, Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An ink jet recording apparatus which is able to be operated by communication from a higher-level device includes a printing head that ejects ink, a communication unit which is able to perform communicating with the higher-level device, a program storage unit that stores a program, and a printing control unit that controls the printing head, and the program storage unit includes a communication program storage area in which a program corresponding to a predetermined communication protocol is stored in advance, and the program storage unit includes an extension area in which a program corresponding to a communication protocol different from the predetermined communication protocol is installable.