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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 10, 2024
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Hajime Usami, Nagoya, JP;
BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
A printing apparatus includes a main controlling circuit, a subsidiary controlling circuit group, and heads. The subsidiary controlling circuit group includes a plurality of subsidiary controlling circuits, including a first subsidiary controlling circuit and a second subsidiary controlling circuit connected with one another serially, and is configured to transmit print data received from the main controlling circuit from upstream to downstream. The first subsidiary controlling circuit is configured to, based on a volume of outgoing data to be transmitted to one of the heads and a volume of incoming data from the second subsidiary controlling circuit, determine whether a first data-transfer request is to be transmitted to the second subsidiary controlling circuit, and based on a determination that the first data-transfer request is to be transmitted, transmit the first data-transfer request to the second subsidiary controlling circuit.