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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 05, 1999
Toshihiro Shima, Nagano, JP;
Tadashi Kobayashi, Nagano, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A network printer comprises a network interface to be connected to a communication network, in addition to a parallel interface to be connected to a host computer through a dedicated cable in one to one correspondence. A CPU within the printer executes an interruption processing for receiving a received by the network interface from the host computer, a communication task for removing a header from the received packet to extract print job data and storing the print job data into a print data buffer, a language task for interpreting the print job data within the print data buffer, and a print task for generating raster image on the basis of the interpretation result of the language task.