US 11,693,613 B2Granted

Printing apparatus and method of controlling printing apparatus

AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation

InventorAkio Takamoto

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Abstract

A printing apparatus includes a communication section configured to perform wireless communication with a first external device using a first communication mode and with a second external device using a second communication mode, a printing section, a storage section configured to store first communication setting information, second communication setting information related, and print setting information, a detector configured to detect a predetermined input, and a controller. The controller determines a predetermined error state, generates, when the detector detects the predetermined input, based on the second communication setting information, symbol image information, and controls the printing section to print the symbol image information. The controller controls the communication section to perform, based on the second communication setting information, to communicate with the second external device and to transmit, when a request from the second external device is received, the first communication setting information and the print setting information.

Claims12

Dependent claims

A printing apparatus, comprising:

a circuit configured to perform wireless communication with a first external device using a first communication mode and to perform wireless communication with a second external device using a second communication mode different from the first communication mode;
and
a head configured to print on recording paper,
wherein
the printing apparatus is configured to store first communication setting information related to the first communication mode, second communication setting information related to the second communication mode, and print setting information related to the head,
the printing apparatus
prints by the head, on the recording paper, a symbol image information that represents the stored second communication setting information when a predetermined input by a user is detected after a predetermined error state of the printing apparatus is occurred in a wireless communication state with the first external device using the first communication mode, and
performs by the circuit, based on the stored second communication setting information, communication with the second external device using the second communication mode, and
transmits, when a request from the second external device is received, the stored first communication setting information and the stored print setting information.

6 more elements

A method of controlling a printing apparatus including a circuit configured to perform wireless communication with a first external device using a first communication mode and to perform wireless communication with a second external device using a second communication mode different from the first communication mode, a head configured to print on recording paper, wherein the printing device is configured to store first communication setting information related to the first communication mode, second communication setting information related to the second communication mode, and print setting information related to the printing section, the method comprising:

printing by the head, on the recording paper, a symbol image information that represents the stored second communication setting information when a predetermined input by a user is detected after a predetermined error state of the printing apparatus is occurred in a wireless communication state with the first external device using the first communication mode, and
performing by the circuit, based on the stored second communication setting information, communication with the second external device using the second communication mode, and
transmitting, when a request from the second external device is received, the stored first communication setting information and the stored print setting information.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/651,428Filed 17 Feb 2022
Priority: JP 2021-02401418 Feb 2021
Published: US 2022/0261197 A118 Aug 2022
Granted: 4 Jul 2023
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

G06F 3/1257
Configuration of print job parameters, e.g. using UI at the client: by using pre-stored settings, e.g. job templates, presets, print styles
G06F 3/1204
Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. print management: resulting in reduced user or operator actions, e.g. presetting, automatic…
G06F 3/121
Specifically adapted to achieve a particular effect: facilitating exception or error detection and recovery, e.g. fault, media or consumables depleted
G06F 3/1234
Printer resources management or printer maintenance, e.g. device status, power levels: errors handling and recovery, e.g. reprinting