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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 1996
Filed:
Jan. 14, 1994
Fumihito Hayano, Ogaki, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Aichi, JP;
Abstract
A printer emulator having a function of emulating different types of printers which operate respective operation modes. The emulator is operable according to print data in a selected one of the operation modes of the printers, and includes a print data memory for storing the print data consisting of at least one job unit each representative of a printing job. The print data include at least one mode-determinative code which determines an effective operation mode for each job unit of the print data. The emulator further includes a unit detecting device for detecting each job unit of the print data, a mode determining device for determining the effective operation mode for each job unit of the print data, on the basis of the mode-determinative code or codes, and a printing device for performing the printing job according to each job unit of the print data in the effective operation mode determined by the mode determining device.