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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 03, 1992
Masaaki Shimizu, Sagamihara, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A printing apparatus such as laser beam printer or page printer comprises a developing unit to sequentially develop received print data into a development memory and controller to control the order to generate the developed information from the development memory on the basis of information which has been set by a host computer or the printing apparatus. The print data includes a character code, position information to develop the character code into the development memory, and information indicative of a font pattern which is used when developing. The development memory is a bit map memory of at least page. The developing unit develops the received print data into the development memory on the basis of a page describing language.