Printing method, poratable communication terminal and portable printer
AssigneeFUJIFILM Corporation
InventorsHiroshi Omura, Ko Aosaki, Hiroyuki Uchiyama, Seiji Takada, Hiroshi Soma, Chiaki Fujii, Seimei Ushiro
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Abstract
A cellular phone is connected to a portable printer which uses an instant print film through connectors, and the printer prints an image according to image data stored in the cellular phone. The cellular phone can display the image to be printed on its LCD. The user can input information for the printing with push buttons of the cellular phone, and display the information on the LCD. Thus, the portable printer does not need an LCD and push buttons, and therefore the printer is small, light and inexpensive.
Claims10
A printing method in which a portable communication terminal is connected to a printer, and image data of an image stored in the portable communication terminal is outputted to the printer, which prints the image, wherein:
- a displaying device of the portable communication terminal displays the image;
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- the displaying device displays print information for printing the image to also work as a displaying device of the printer when the print information is inputted.
A portable communication terminal, comprising:
- a communicating device that transmits and receives image data of an image;
- a storage device that temporarily stores the image data received by the communicating device;
- a displaying device that displays the image;
- a display controlling device that displays print information for printing the image on the displaying device;
- a first connecting device that is connected to a printer;
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- an outputting device that outputs the image data to the printer through the first connecting device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.