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AssigneeCasio Computer Co., Ltd.
InventorsShinichirou TABATA, Ryo OE
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The present invention allows desired printing to be easily achieved not with complex operation but with intuitive operation. In the present invention, short-range communications can be made between a portable terminal device and a copy machine. When the portable terminal device is placed on a placement table of the copy machine, the copy machine detects the placement state of the portable terminal device (for example, landscape orientation or portrait orientation), determines a print format (for example, printing in a vertical direction or a horizontal direction as a printing direction) according to this placement state, and performs printing of print data received from the portable terminal device according to the print format.
A data printing system including a printing device for receiving and printing print data and a portable terminal device for transmitting the print data to the printing device, comprising:
A portable terminal device comprising:
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon a program that is executable by a computer, the program being executable by the computer to perform functions comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.