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US 2012/0236363 A1Published application
Recording device, recording system, and method of controlling a recording device
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsMinoru Nagaoka, Keiko Negishi
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Abstract
Jobs can be executed continuously by using buffer efficiently. A printer-side control unit divides an image buffer into blocks of a size that can store at least the image data for the largest image included in the image data of an input job, and writes the image data for one job to one block.
Claims9
A recording device that can connect to a control device and comprises:
- a conveyance unit that conveys a recording medium;
- an inkjet line head that ejects ink to the recording medium conveyed by the conveyance unit;
- a reception unit that receives a job related to recording an image from the control device;
- a storage unit that has a buffer;
- and
- a control unit that writes recording data for an image to be recorded to the recording medium by the inkjet line head by line unit to the buffer based on the job received by the reception unit,
- controls the conveyance unit and the inkjet line head and records on the recording medium based on the recording data stored in the buffer,
- receives the job or information related to the job through the reception unit,
- segments the buffer by a specific size into a plurality of blocks based on a received job or job-related information, and
- stores the recording data for each job to the separate blocks by job.
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A recording system comprising:
- a recording device that has a conveyance unit that conveys a recording medium,
- an inkjet line head that ejects ink to the recording medium conveyed by the conveyance unit,
- a reception unit that receives a job related to recording an image from the control device,
- a storage unit that has a buffer, and
- a control unit that writes recording data for an image to be recorded to the recording medium by the inkjet line head by line unit to the buffer based on the job received by the reception unit, and controls the conveyance unit and the inkjet line head and records on the recording medium based on the recording data stored in the buffer;
- and
- a control device that can connect to the recording device;
- wherein the control device sends the job or information related to the job to the recording device, and
- the recording device segments the buffer by a specific size into a plurality of blocks based on the job or information related to the job received through the reception unit, and stores the recording data for each job to the separate blocks by job.
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A method of controlling a recording device that can connect to a control device and has
- a conveyance unit that conveys a recording medium,
- an inkjet line head that ejects ink to the recording medium conveyed by the conveyance unit,
- a reception unit that receives a job related to recording an image from the control device,
- a storage unit that has a buffer, and
- a control unit that writes recording data for an image to be recorded to the recording medium by the inkjet line head by line unit to the buffer based on the job received by the reception unit, controls the conveyance unit and the inkjet line head and records on the recording medium based on the recording data stored in the buffer,
- the control method comprising as steps executed by the control unit:
- receiving a job or information related to a job through the reception unit;
- and
- segmenting the buffer by a specific size into a plurality of blocks based on a received job or job-related information;
- and
- storing the recording data for each job to the separate blocks by job.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.