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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 17, 2009
Kei Watanabe, Komoro, JP;
Akihiro Ikeda, Toumi, JP;
Kei Watanabe, Komoro, JP;
Akihiro Ikeda, Toumi, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A printer can print to paper with a narrow width while maintaining a print format with good legibility without changing the application program and printer driver installed on the host computer. The control method of a printer that prints based on print datasent from a host computerhas a step Sof extracting data attributes contained in the print dataand assigning the print datato data segment areas for each data attribute; a step of setting the data segment areas to specific printing areas based on the data attribute; an actual print data generating step (steps S, S, S, S, S) of converting the print dataassigned to the data segment areas to actual print data according to the data attributes; and a printing step Sof printing the actual print data in the printing areas.