Printing system including automatic status transmission function and control device and control method thereof

A control device capable of communicating with a printing device that prints on recording media, the control device comprising:

• a controller configured to generate and output, by a printing program, a print command instructing the printing device to print;
• and
• a manager of the control device configured to generate a maintenance command related to a status of the printing device, and send the maintenance command to the printing device, by a maintenance program that is different from the printing program,
• wherein the maintenance command comprises an enable or disable command that sets an automatic status transmission function of the printing device to either an enabled state or a disabled state, and
• wherein the manager of the control device is configured to (i) determine if received data received from the printing device is the status information, (ii) output the received data to the controller when the received data is not the status information, and (iii) when the received data is the status information, execute a process based on the status information and not output the status information to the controller.

A control device capable of communicating with a printing device that prints on recording media, the control device comprising:

• a controller configured to generate and output, by a printing program, a print command instructing the printing device to print;
• and
• a manager configured to generate a maintenance command related to a status of the printing device, and send the maintenance command to the printing device, by a maintenance program that is different from the printing program,
• wherein the maintenance command comprises an enable or disable command that sets an automatic status transmission function of the printing device to either an enabled state or a disabled state,
• the automatic status transmission function comprises monitoring the status of specific log items related to the printing device, and when there is a change in the status of any log item, transmitting status information related to the log item of which the status changed without being requested by the control device, and
• the manager of the control device is configured to (i) determine if received data received from the printing device is the status information, (ii) output the received data to the controller when the received data is not the status information, and (iii) when the received data is the status information, execute a process based on the status information and not output the status information to the controller.