Print system, printer controller, printer, and printer control method
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorToshihiro Shima
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Abstract
A print system is disclosed which comprises a printer; a setting device for receiving a setting value specifying a print mode which is entered by a user; a storage device for storing the setting value determined by the setting device; a selector for selecting the setting value selected by the user from the existing setting values stored in the storage device; and a printer controller which processes a document through use of the setting value selected or newly entered by the user to thereby produce print data and which supplies the produced print data to the printer.
Claims29
A print system comprising:
- a printer;
- a setting device for determining a new setting value specifying a print mode entered by a user;
- a storage device for storing a plurality of previously determined setting values specifying print modes used for previously printed document files and a correspondent table indicating correspondence between the document files and the previously determined setting values;
- a selector for selecting one of the previously determined setting values stored in the storage device in accordance with user instructions;
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- a printer controller for processing a document in accordance with one of the previously determined setting values selected by the selector or the new setting value entered by the user to thereby produce print data which is supplied to the printer.
A printer controller which produces print data used for printing a document and supplies the prepared print data to a printer comprising:
- setting means for determining a new setting value specifying a print mode entered by a user;
- storage means for storing a plurality of previously determined setting values specifying print modes used for previously printed document files and a correspondent table indicating correspondence between the document files and the previously determined setting values;
- selection means for selecting one of the previously determined setting values stored in the storage means in accordance with user instructions;
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- print data production means for processing a document in accordance with one of the previously determined setting values selected by the selector or the new setting value entered by the user, to thereby produce print data.
A printer control method comprising the steps of:
- determining a new setting value specifying a print mode entered by a user;
- storing a plurality of previously determined setting values specifying print modes used for previously printed document files and using a correspondent table to indicate correspondence between the document files and the previously determined setting values;
- selecting one of the previously determined setting values in accordance with user instructions;
- producing print data on the basis of the setting values selected or the new setting value entered by the user;
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- supplying the produced print data to a printer.
A printer for executing a printing operation upon receiving print data from one of a plurality of printer controllers, said printer comprising:
- storage means for storing a plurality of previously determined setting values specifying print modes used for previously printed document files, and a correspondent table indicating correspondence between the previously printed document files, the print controllers which provided the previously printed document files and the previously determined setting values;
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- transmission means for transmitting the previously determined setting values and the correspondent table stored in the storage means to the printer controllers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.