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AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsNoriyuki Suzuki, Sohei Tanaka, Masafumi Wataya, Yasutomo Watanabe, Akira Kuronuma, Toru Nakayama, Shinichiro Takahama, Takuji Katsu
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This invention provides a low-cost, economical printing apparatus and printing system. For example, characteristic information of a printhead which is described, printed, adhered, or formed on a printhead or its accessory (e.g., a packaging paper box) in a format identifiable to human or an electronic device is man-machine-interactively inputted to a host or electronically inputted to the host by a barcode reader or the like. The printing apparatus discriminates whether or not a command sent from the host via an interface is a command that includes characteristic information of the printhead, and control is made to write the characteristic information of the print head into a non-volatile memory (EEPROM) in accordance with the discriminating result. The printhead is controlled in accordance with the characteristic information written into the non-volatile memory to execute a print process.
A printing apparatus for printing on a printing medium using a printhead, comprising:
A printhead to which information is appended, wherein the information is inputted to a host computer, which transmits print information to a printing apparatus to which said printhead is mounted for printing, so as to output characteristics information of said printhead based on the information to the printing apparatus.
An accompanying material to which information is appended, wherein the material is accompanied with a printhead, the information is inputted to a host computer, which transmits print information to a printing apparatus to which said printhead is mounted for printing, so as to output characteristics information of said printhead based on the information to the printing apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.