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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2006
Masaki Hyogo, Suwa, JP;
Eiji Ito, Suwa, JP;
Tomohiro Kodama, Suwa, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Systems and methods for reliably canceling a DMA transfer mode and accelerating printer initialization. A host devicefor controlling a printer having a DMA transfer mode for printing by transferring image data associated with a received image print command to a print buffer. The host devicehas a print data generating unitfor generating the image print command, memoryfor storing the data size of the image data associated with the image print command generated by the print data generating unit, and a printer control unitfor sending to the printeran initialization command having null data of the data size stored in memoryadded to the beginning of the initialization command.