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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1999
Yuji Kurosawa, Kashiwa, JP;
Akihiro Yoshitani, Toride, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
When a detachable image reader can scan both color and monochrome images, the read images are transferred and printed in the scanning order. A printing output is undesirably limited depending on the type of printing agent cartridge of a main body printer. An object of this invention is to solve this problem. When a hand scanner unit scans and stores color and monochrome images, and mounted on a main body reader, a printing agent cartridge in the printer is identified. If the cartridge is a color one, color images in the hand scanner unit are preferentially transferred and printed out by the printer. Then, a change to a monochrome cartridge is displayed on a display. After the cartridge is changed, monochrome images in the hand scanner unit are transferred and printed out by the printer.