Printer and control method of a printer
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorShingo Yudasaka
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Abstract
A printer has a print unit, a printer communicator, printer storage, and a printer controller. The controller controls the printer communicator to receive a print command that includes character data and a font command. The controller acquires font data for characters specified by the character data based on font data and relational information stored by the printer storage 21. The controller generates print data by applying a specific process related to the font type and controls the print unit based on the generated print data to print on a print medium.
Claims20
A printer comprising:
- a print unit that prints on a print medium;
- a communicator that receives a print command including a font command and character data, the font command specifying a font type and the character data specifying characters;
- storage that stores font data and relational information, the relational information relating the font type to a specific process;
- and
- a controller that
- controls the communicator to receive the print command,
- acquires, from the storage, the font data for characters specified by the character data in the print command,
- generates print data by applying, to the acquired font data, the specific process the relational information relates to the font type specified by the font command, and
- controls the print unit based on the generated print data to print on the print medium.
A control method of a printer having a print unit that prints on a print medium, and storage that stores font data and relational information relating font type to a specific process, the control method comprising:
- receiving a print command including a font command and character data, the font command specifying a font type and the character data specifying characters;
- acquiring the font data for characters specified by the character data;
- generating print data by applying, to the acquired font data, the specific process the relational information relates to the font type specified by the font command;
- and
- printing by the print unit on the print medium based on the generated print data.
A print data generating method of generating print data including font data as print data processed by a printer, comprising:
- a step of receiving a print command including a font command and character data, the font command specifying a font type and the character data specifying characters;
- a step of acquiring the font data for characters specified by the character data;
- and
- a step of applying to the acquired font data a specific process related to the font type specified by the font command.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.