Information processing apparatus capable of connecting printer
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsNaoshi Inoue, Shigeo Yoshida, Toshio Sugino
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Abstract
An information processing apparatus capable of connecting a plurality of types of printers including an ink-jet printer, includes a connection unit for electrically connecting a printer, a discrimination unit for discriminating a type of printer connected to the connection unit, a selection unit for, when the discrimination unit discriminates the ink-jet printer, selecting a presence/absence of setting of an ink fixing time, and a setting unit for, when the selection units selects the presence of setting of the fixing time, allowing setting of the ink fixing time.
Claims10
A processing method for an information processing apparatus capable of connecting a plurality of types of printers, at least one of which can mount a cut sheet feeder, and capable of producing record data to be supplied to the printers, said method comprising the steps of:
- providing connection means for electrically connecting a printer;
- discriminating the type of printer connected to said connection means;
- determining whether the cut sheet feeder is mounted on the printer;
- controlling the printer connected to said connection means to execute a paper supply operation;
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- controlling the printer to execute a paper feed operation in accordance with the type of printer as discriminated in said discrimination step and in accordance with a determination of whether the cut sheet feeder is mounted as determined in said determining step, after the printer executes the paper supply operation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.