Printing suspension control for a printer having multiple printing mechanisms

A printer having multiple printing mechanisms including a first printing mechanism and a second printing mechanism each configured to apply printing to a printing medium, the printer comprising:

• a printing device configured to execute a printing process to repetitively print a character defined for a page with one of the multiple printing mechanisms;
• and
• a controller,
• the controller being configured to:
• determine, while the printing device is executing a first printing process which is the printing process for one page using the first printing mechanism, whether a first instruction to suspend the first printing process is received;
• when it is determined that the first instruction is received, complete printing of a page which is being printed when the first instruction is received, and suspend the first printing process thereafter;
• determine whether a second instruction to start a second printing process using the second printing mechanism is received after the first printing process is suspended;
• and
• execute the second printing process using the second printing mechanism when it is determined that the second instruction is received,
• wherein the controller is further configured:
• not to receive a first printing condition when the first printing process is executed after the first printing process was suspended and before it is determined that the second instruction was received;
• and
• to receive a second printing condition when the second printing process is executed,
• wherein the controller is configured to execute the second printing process using the second printing mechanism based on the second printing condition as received when it is determined that the second instruction was received.

A printer having multiple printing mechanisms including a first printing mechanism and a second printing mechanism each configured to apply printing to a printing medium, the printer comprising:

• a printing device configured to execute a printing process to repetitively print a character defined for a page with one of the multiple printing mechanisms, the printing process including a first printing process and a second printing process, the first printing process being a process for printing on a first printing medium using the first printing mechanism, the second printing process being a process for printing a plurality of pages of the character of a second printing medium, physically separate and distinct from the first printing medium, using the second printing mechanism;
• and
• a controller,
• the controller being configured to:
• determine whether a first instruction to suspend the printing process in execution is received;
• when it is determined that the first instruction is received while the printing device is executing the first printing process,
• complete printing of a page which is being printed when the first instruction is received, and suspend the first printing process thereafter but before completion of the first printing process;
• determine whether a second instruction to start the second printing process using the second printing mechanism is received after the first printing process is suspended;
• and
• execute the second printing process when it is determined that the second instruction is received and while the first printing medium remains in a printing position with respect to the first printing mechanism;
• and
• when it is determined that the first instruction is received while the printing device is executing the second printing process and while the first printing medium remains in the printing position with respect to the first printing mechanism, continue to execute the second printing process.