Printer and control method of a printer
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorRyota KONDO
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Abstract
A printer has a printing mechanism for printing on roll paper; RAM storing font data for multiple languages having at least some character codes in common, and the starting address of the font data for each of the multiple languages; a communicator that receives a command specifying starting addresses and character codes; and a controller that reads font data corresponding to the character codes received by the communicator from RAM based on the starting address specified by the command, and controlling the printing mechanism to print based on the read font data.
Claims10
A printer comprising:
- a printing mechanism configured to print on a print medium;
- storage storing font data for multiple languages having at least some character codes in common, and location information of the font data for each of the multiple languages;
- a communicator configured to receive a command specifying location information, and character codes;
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- a controller configured to read font data corresponding to the character codes received by the communicator from the storage based on the location information specified by the command, and control the printing mechanism to print based on the read font data.
A control method of a printer having a printing mechanism configured to print on a print medium;
- storage storing font data for multiple languages having at least some character codes in common, and location information of the font data for each of the multiple languages;
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- a communicator configured to receive a command specifying location information, and character codes;
- the control method including reading font data corresponding to the character codes received by the communicator from the storage based on the location information specified by the command;
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- controlling the printing mechanism to print based on the read font data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.