Recording apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKatsuhiko Anzai
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Abstract
A recording apparatus having a feeder for feeding recording sheets, a recording device to record onto a recording sheet fed by the feeder in an orientation of a portrait or a landscape and a controller to control the orientation of the recording device based on a manually-set or predetermined orientation.
Claims16
A recording apparatus comprising:
- feeding means including standard feeding means for feeding a standard sheet and specific feeding means for feeding a specific sheet, said feeding means having two feeding modes, one of said modes being a standard mode for feeding the standard sheet by said standard feeding means and the other of said modes being a specific mode for feeding the specific sheet by said specific feeding means in an orientation able to be manually set;
- recording means for recording a document onto a recording sheet fed lengthwise by said feeding means in the orientation of a portrait or a landscape, said recording means recording the document onto the recording sheet such that a column direction of the document is perpendicular to a feeding direction of the recording sheet in a case of the portrait orientation and the column direction of the document is parallel to the feeding direction of the recording sheet in a case of the landscape orientation;
- and
- control means for controlling the orientation of said recording means,
- wherein said recording means operates on the basis of a command system of a page printer and a command system of a line printer,
- wherein said control means, in accordance with an instruction for switching the feeding mode from the standard mode to the specific mode, switches the feeding mode and sets the orientation to the landscape irrespective of the orientation set in the standard mode when said recording means operates based on the command system of the line printer, and
- wherein said control means does not set the landscape orientation according to the instruction for switching the feeding mode, when said recording means operates based on the command system of the page printer.
A recording system comprising:
- (A) a recording apparatus having,
- (i) feeding means including standard feeding means for feeding a standard sheet and specific feeding means for feeding a specific sheet, said feeding means having two feeding modes, one of said modes being a standard mode for feeding the standard sheet by said standard feeding means and the other of said modes being a specific mode for feeding the specific sheet by said specific feeding means in an orientation able to be manually set, and
- (ii) recording means for recording a document onto a sheet material fed lengthwise by said feeding means in the orientation of a portrait or a landscape, said recording means recording the document onto the sheet material such that a column direction of the document is perpendicular to a feeding direction of the sheet in a case of the portrait orientation and the column direction of the document is parallel to the feeding direction of the sheet in a case of the landscape orientation;
- (B) an information generating apparatus for generating information to be recorded by said recording apparatus;
- (C) instruction means for instructing a desired feeding mode;
- and
- (D) control means for controlling the orientation of said recording means,
- wherein said recording means operates on the basis of a command system of a page printer and a command system of a line printer,
- wherein said control means, in accordance with the instruction by said instruction means for switching the feeding mode from the standard mode to the specific mode, switches the feeding mode and sets the orientation to the landscape irrespective of the orientation set in the standard mode, when said recording means operates based on the command system of the line printer, and
- wherein said control means does not set the landscape orientation according to the instruction for switching the feeding mode when said recording means operates based on the command system of the page printer.
A method in a printer having a line printer mode for processing data generated from a host in a command system of a line printer and a page printer mode for processing the data generated from the host in a command system of a page printer, for setting a feeding mode, for lengthwise feeding including a standard mode and a specific mode, and an orientation mode, including a portrait mode and a landscape mode, wherein the standard mode feeds a standard sheet mounted on a standard sheet mount unit, the specific mode feeds a specific sheet mounted on a specific sheet mount unit, the portrait mode records a document on a sheet such that a column direction of the document is perpendicular to a feeding direction of the sheet, and the landscape mode records the document on the sheet such that the column direction of the document is parallel to the feeding direction of the sheet, said method comprising the steps of:
- detecting an instruction for switching the feeding mode from the standard mode to the specific mode;
- executing the switching of the feeding mode in according with the detection of the switching instruction in said detecting step;
- and
- setting the orientation mode to the landscape mode even if the orientation mode before the switching is the portrait mode, in accordance with the detection of the switching instruction in the line printer mode,
- wherein, in said setting step, if the switching instruction is detected in the page printer mode, the setting of the landscape mode according to the switching instruction is not performed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.