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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2011
Filed:
May. 23, 2008
Osamu Azami, Shiojiri, JP;
Osamu Azami, Shiojiri, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There is provided a color page printer including a print engine operable by a color mode for executing color printing and a monochrome mode for executing monochrome printing, and a control unit for controlling the print engine to generate a printed paper having a content corresponding to received print data. The control unit is a unit equipped with a print number output section for outputting numbers of surfaces printed by a color mode and a monochrome mode of the print engine respectively as a number of color prints and a number of monochrome prints in an engine counter mode, numbers of surfaces printed based on print data for which color print is specified and print data for which monochrome print is specified respectively as a number of color prints and a number of monochrome prints in a driver specified counter mode, and a number of printing surfaces whose printed result was color and a number of printing surfaces whose printed result was monochrome respectively as a number of color prints and a number of monochrome prints in a real counter mode.