Image outputting apparatus with auxiliary memory device for storing a plurality of control programs
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorSatoshi Nagata
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Abstract
An image outputting abstract has a removably mounted auxiliary memory device for prestoring control programs process print information conforming to a command system. The auxiliary memory device is capable of storing several control programs at one time and the execution of any one of the control programs stored in the auxiliary memory device can be easily selected without a cumbersome cartridge interchange process.
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An information outputting apparatus which outputs second information generated from first information, with the first information being input from a disconnectable information processing apparatus comprising:
- connection means for connecting, to said information outputting apparatus, an external memory which stores a program for generating the second information from the first information;
- memory means comprising a hard disc for storing plural different programs for generating second information from first information;
- storage control means for controlling said memory means to store the program stored in an external memory connected to said connection means and to register the program in said memory means;
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- output means for generating the second information from the first information using the program registered in said memory means and for outputting the generated second information.
An information outputting method carried out in an information outputting apparatus having a connector for connecting thereto an external memory which stores a program for generating second information from first information input from a disconnectable information processing apparatus, said method for generating the second information from the first information and for outputting the generated second information, said method comprising the steps of:
- copying the program stored on the external memory to a memory comprising a hard disc and registering the copied program in the memory, wherein the memory is arranged for storage of plural different programs each for generating second information from first information;
- generating the second information from the first information using the program registered in the memory;
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- outputting the generated second information.
An information outputting method carried out in an information outputting apparatus having a connector for connecting thereto an external memory which stores a program for generating second information from first information input from a disconnectable information processing apparatus, said method for generating the second information from the first information and for outputting the generated second information, said method comprising the steps of:
- storing a plurality of different programs, each for generating second information from first information, in a memory comprising a hard disc;
- copying the program stored in the external memory to the memory and registering the copied information in the memory;
- selecting one of the plurality of different programs;
- generating the second information from the first information using the selected program;
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- outputting the generated second information.
An output control apparatus which generates output data from input data received from a host computer and causes an output unit to output the generated output data, said apparatus comprising:
- instruction means for producing a registration instruction instructing registration of an emulation program stored in an external memory connected to said apparatus at a connection section thereof in a large capacity memory;
- control means for registering the emulation program in the large capacity memory in response to the registration instruction produced by sid instruction means, and thereafter allowing another emulation program stored in another external memory to be registered in the large capacity memory if a further registration instruction instructing registration of the another emulation is produced by said instruction means when the another external memory is connected to said apparatus at the connection section;
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- generating means for processing the received input data using either one of the emulation program and the another emulation program registered in the large capacity memory to generate the output data.
A method of generating output data carried out in an output control apparatus which generates output data from data received from a host computer and causes an output unit to output the generated output data, comprising the steps of:
- registering an emulation program stored in an external memory connected to the apparatus at a connection unit thereof in a large capacity memory in response to a registration instruction produced by an instruction unit of the apparatus, and thereafter allowing another emulation program stored in another external memory to be registered in the large capacity memory if a further registration instruction is produced by the instruction unit when the another external memory is connected to the apparatus at the connection section;
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- processing the received data using either one of the emulation program and the another emulation program registered in the large capacity memory to generate the output data.
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