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US 2016/0042574 A1Published application
Printing device and printing system
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorShinichi Yoshie
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Abstract
To prevent forgery of printouts by a simple configuration that can be easily introduced to an existing system, a printer 3 that prints a receipt based on print data sent from a POS terminal 2 has: a code generating unit 33 that generates a unique code unique to each receipt based on the print data; a print control unit 31 and print unit 45 that print a receipt based on the print data, and print the unique code on the receipt; and a code transmission unit 34 that outputs the unique code to a receipt history server 6.
Claims8
A printing device that prints a form based on print data sent from a host device, comprising:
- an information generating means that generates form information unique to each form based on the print data;
- a print means that prints the form based on the print data, and prints the form information on the form;
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- an output means that outputs the form information to an external device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.