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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:
Oct. 29, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 14, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Tetsushi Kohno, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/500 ;
Abstract
Disclosed is a readily expandable printing apparatus which, despite having only a small memory capacity, is applicable to a number of types of printing processing. On the basis of the type of ink cartridge loaded in the printing apparatus and the content of information that is to be printed, a host computer retrieves from its own memory a program to be run in the printing apparatus. The host computer then transfers the retrieved program to the printing apparatus. The later stores the transferred program in an internal RAM and, when print data has been transferred from the host computer, executes the program.