Print data-editing apparatus and print data-editing program stored in computer readable medium
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMotonori Tanaka, Tatsuhiro Ikedo
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Abstract
When a printing apparatus is connected to a personal computer, an editing program for editing an object to be printed by the printing apparatus is actuated. The printing apparatus connected is set as a printing apparatus to be used, and a layout-editing screen is displayed. A layout image in which a medium set in the printing apparatus is set as a medium to be used is displayed on the layout-editing screen. When the printing apparatus is changed, or the medium set in the printing apparatus is changed while the editing program is being operated, a new layout-editing screen is displayed in which a new printing apparatus, or a new medium, is set as the printing apparatus, or the medium, to be used.
Claims20
A print data-editing apparatus, comprising:
- a printing apparatus that executes printing;
- a connecting device that connects the printing apparatus;
- a connection-detecting device that detects that the printing apparatus has been connected to the connecting device;
- a printing apparatus type-acquiring device that acquires from the printing apparatus a type of printing apparatus connected to the connecting device;
- a display device that displays information;
- a layout image display device that displays on the display device a layout image in which an object to be printed is arranged on an image of a print medium;
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- a new layout image-creating device that, when the connection-detecting device has detected that the printing apparatus has been connected to the connecting device, newly displays on the layout image display device a layout image of the print medium printable in the printing apparatus of the type acquired by the printing apparatus type acquiring-device.
A print data-editing apparatus, comprising:
- a printing apparatus that executes printing;
- a connecting device that connects the printing apparatus;
- a display device that displays information;
- a layout image display device that displays on the display device a layout image in which an object to be printed is arranged on an image of a print medium;
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- a control device that detects that the printing apparatus has been connected to the connecting device, acquires from the printing apparatus a type of printing apparatus connected to the connecting device, and after detecting that the printing apparatus has been connected to the connecting device, newly displays on the layout image display device a layout image of the print medium printable in the printing apparatus of the type acquired.
A print data-editing program stored in a computer readable medium, comprising:
- a connection-detecting step of detecting a connection of a printing apparatus;
- a printing apparatus type-acquiring step of acquiring from the printing apparatus a type of printing apparatus connected;
- a layout image display step of displaying a layout image in which an object to be printed is arranged on an image of a print medium;
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- a new layout image-creating step of, when the connection of the printing apparatus has been detected in the connection-detecting step, newly displaying a layout image of the print medium printable in the printing apparatus of the type acquired in the printing apparatus type-acquiring step.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.