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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 2002
Filed:
May. 13, 1998
Satoshi Okimoto, Komaki, JP;
Hiroyuki Funahashi, Nagoya, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
When the received mail is determined to be print mail in S based on its mail header, the program first determines in S what page description language is used to describe the print data in the mail. In S , the program selects a printer which is being presently set to interpret that page description language. Then, in S , print data in the print mail is printed using the printer thus selected in S . If there exists no printer appropriately set to interpret that page description language, the program selects in S a printer provided with a function to interpret that page description language. The program then sets the function mode of the printer into a mode to interpret the page description language. Then, in S , print data in the print mail is printed using the thus selected and set printer. Thus, the print mail is printed by a printer which can appropriately interpret the processing format of the print data included in the received print mail. Hence, the print data will not be printed erroneously. The user on the receiving end can receive printed matter in the form desired by the user on the transmitting end.