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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 1997
Filed:
Mar. 29, 1994
Masaru Igarashi, Yokohama, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A printing system which controls whether to print on a manually-inserted sheet or a sheet fed from within a sheet cassette. Data received from a data source includes both print data and instruction data which indicates whether to print on a manually-inserted sheet or a sheet from within the sheet cassette. The received data is discriminated to determine whether it is instruction data or print data, and the instruction data is discriminated to determine whether it indicates to print on a manually-inserted sheet or a sheet from within the sheet cassette. The printer is thereafter controlled so as to print an image corresponding to the print data on a sheet fed in accordance with the discrimination of the instruction data.