Printer and control method of a printer
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorHideo NAKAMURA
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Abstract
A printer including: a receive buffer that receives string information indicating a strong including one or more substrings; a storage storing data defined by a specific rule; a command string generator that generates, for each substring in the string information received by the receive buffer, a command string including a command and the substring based on information stored in the storage indicating the style of each sub string, a command executor that generates image data according to the one or more commands in the one or more command strings generated by the command string generator; a print buffer for storing the image data generated by the command executor; and a printing mechanism that prints based on the image data stored in the print buffer.
Claims14
A printer comprising:
- a receive buffer configured to receive string information indicating a string including one or more sub strings segmenting the string;
- storage configured to store information indicating a style defined by a specific rule;
- a processor configured to:
- respectively generate, for each of the one or more substrings in the string information received by the receive buffer, a command string including a command and the substring based on information stored in the storage indicating the style of each substring,
- execute the one or more commands included in the generated one or more command strings, and
- generate image data;
- and
- a printing mechanism configured to print based on the image data.
A control method of a printer having a receive buffer configured to receive string information indicating a string including one or more substrings segmenting the string, and storage configured to store information indicating a style defined by a specific rule, comprising:
- respectively generating, for each of the one or more substrings in the string information received by the receive buffer, a command string including a command and the substring based on information stored in the storage indicating the style of each sub string;
- executing the one or more commands included in the generated one or more command strings, and generating image data;
- and
- printing based on the image data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.