Information processing method and apparatus
OwnerTsutomu Takahashi, Naohisa Suzuki +3inventors
InventorsTSUTOMU TAKAHASHI, NAOHISA SUZUKI, KOJI FUKUNAGA, JIRO TATEYAMA, JUN OIDA
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Abstract
An information processing apparatus comprises: a memory to store emulation information which is designated from a host computer that is connected to a printer via a general parallel interface; a judging circuit to judge a delimiter of print data; and a control unit to switch the emulation on the basis of the emulation information stored in the memory and the result of the judgment by the judging circuit. When each section of the apparatus is in the inoperative state, they are set into the power saving mode and are sequentially controlled. Thus, the power saving of the whole apparatus can be realized.
Claims13
An information processing apparatus comprising:
- memory means for storing emulation information which is designated from a host computer;
- judging means for judging a delimiter of print data;
- and
- control means for controlling switching of an emulation on the basis of the emulation information stored in said memory means and the result of the judgment by said judging means.
An information processing method, comprising the steps of:
- storing emulation information which is designated from a host computer;
- and
- controlling a switching of an emulation on the basis of the emulation information stored and a delimiter of print data.
An information processing apparatus comprising:
- information processing means for performing a main control;
- control means for performing a control regarding a printing including a power saving control;
- and
- a switch to instruct said control means to stop or restart, particularly, a printer controller to control the printing,
- wherein when said printer controller is stopped by the instruction of said switch, said control means resets and starts the printer controller on the basis of information which is transferred from said information processing means, thereby processing the information from the information processing means.
An information processing apparatus comprising:
- information processing means for performing a main control;
- control means or performing a control regarding a printing including a power saving control;
- and
- a plurality of instructing means for instructing said control means to reset, particularly, a printer controller to control the printing,
- wherein said control means has reset means for resetting said printer controller and a specific register to specify the instructing means to activate said reset means from among said plurality of instructing means, and the processing after completion of the resetting by said reset means is selected on the basis of an output of said specific register.
An information processing method comprising the steps of:
- executing an information processing by a main controller;
- storing from which one of a plurality of instructing means for instructing to reset a printer controller to control a printing an instruction has been generated;
- and
- selecting a processing after completion of the resetting of said printer controller based on said instruction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.