Printing apparatus and method for controlling printing apparatus
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorAkio TAKAMOTO
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Abstract
A printing apparatus that is communicable with an external apparatus and performs printing by using first electric power supplied from an external power supply, the printing apparatus includes a storage section, a connector which is connectable to a cable and to which second electric power is supplied from the external apparatus via the cable, and a control section, and the control section acts as a storage that stores information in the storage section when the first electric power is not supplied from the external power supply but the second electric power is supplied from the external apparatus via the connector and acts as a device that performs the printing when the first electric power is supplied from the external power supply.
Claims9
A printing apparatus that is communicable with an external apparatus and performs printing by using first electric power supplied from an external power supply, the printing apparatus comprising:
- a storage section;
- a connector which is connectable to a cable and to which second electric power is supplied from the external apparatus via the cable;
- and
- a control section,
- wherein the control section
- acts as a storage that stores information in the storage section when the first electric power is not supplied from the external power supply but the second electric power is supplied from the external apparatus via the connector, and
- acts as a device that performs the printing when the first electric power is supplied from the external power supply.
A method for controlling a printing apparatus that is communicable with an external apparatus and performs printing by using first electric power supplied from an external power supply, the printing apparatus including a storage section and a connector which is connectable to a cable and to which second electric power is supplied from the external apparatus via the cable, the method for controlling a printing apparatus comprising:
- causing the control section to act as a storage that stores information in the storage section when the first electric power is not supplied from the external power supply but the second electric power is supplied from the external apparatus via the connector;
- and
- act as a device that performs the printing when the first electric power is supplied from the external power supply.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.