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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 1997
Filed:
Jun. 21, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Toshihisa Okutsu, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
39520003 ; 395800 ; 39520011 ;
Abstract
There is disclosed a print system in which one of printers connected to a network is selected in accordance with the attributes of print data without requiring a user to operate a host computer, wherein a printer, which received print data from the host computer via a network cable, checks if the received print data can be printed, and if it is determined that the print data can be printed, the print data is printed; if it is determined that the print data cannot be printed, the print data is transferred to another printer, which can print the print data, via the network cable.