Printing apparatus, printing apparatus control method, printing apparatus control program, and printing system

A printing apparatus control method comprising:

• a tag information reading step of reading layout information defining at least a location of a printable area on a print medium from an IC tag attached to or embedded in a predetermined location of the print medium through wireless communication with the IC tag;
• a record data inputting step of inputting record data representing contents recorded on the print medium;
• a printing step of performing a printing process on the print medium on the basis of a print target data in which a print location of the contents represented by the record data is determined on the basis of the layout information;
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• a tag information writing step of updating the layout information on the basis of information directly or indirectly representing a printed area on the print medium subjected to the printing process and writing the layout information subjected to the updating process to the IC tag.

A printing apparatus control program causing a printing apparatus to execute:

• a tag information reading/writing function which reads information from an IC tag attached to or embedded in a predetermined location of a print medium and writes information to the IC tag through wireless communication with the IC tag and which reads layout information, which defines at least a location of a printable area on the print medium, from the IC tag;
• a record data inputting function which inputs record data representing contents recorded on the print medium;
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• a printing control function which performs a printing process on the print medium on the basis of print target data in which a print location of the contents represented by the record data is determined on the basis of the layout information and which updates the layout information on the basis of information directly or indirectly representing a printed area in the print medium subjected to the printing process and allows the tag information reading/writing function to write the layout information subjected to the updating process to the IC tag.

A printing system comprising:

• a print medium in which an IC tag having a predetermined memory storing layout information defining at least a location of a printable area in the print medium is attached to or embedded in a predetermined location;
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• a printing apparatus including:
• a tag information reading/writing unit which reads information from the IC tag of the supplied print medium and writes information to the IC tag through wireless communication with the IC tag and which reads the layout information from the IC tag;
• a record data inputting unit which inputs record data representing contents recorded on the print medium;
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• a printing control unit which performs a printing process on the print medium on the basis of print target data in which a print location of the contents represented by the record data is determined on the basis of the layout information and which updates the layout information on the basis of information directly or indirectly representing a printed area in the print medium subjected to the printing process and allows the tag information reading/writing unit to write the layout information subjected to the updating process to the IC tag.