Printing Device

A hand-held print device for printing images when scanned across a recording medium, the hand-held print device comprising:

• a housing body, wherein, during printing, said housing body is scanned across a recording medium;
• a storage unit storing image data for an image;
• a print unit printing the image data stored in the storage unit;
• a setting unit setting a non-print mode for preventing printing of the image data stored in the storage unit;
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• a notification unit which, when the setting unit sets the non-print mode, notifies completion of scanning of the housing body in a distance equal to a length of the image.

A hand-held print device for printing images when scanned across a recording medium, the print device comprising:

• a housing body scanned across the recording medium during printing;
• an input unit for inputting image data for an image;
• a movement detection unit for detecting movement of the housing body across the recording medium;
• a retrieval unit for serially retrieving, in correspondence with detection of movement by the movement detection unit, the image data inputted by the input unit;
• a print unit for serially receiving the image data retrieved by the retrieval unit and printing the image data, the print unit being provided to the housing body;
• p1 A setting unit for selectively setting one of a print mode for using the print unit to print according to the image data retrieved by the retrieval unit and a non-print mode for preventing the print unit from printing the image data even while the print unit receives the image data from the retrieval unit.