Printer suitable for printing on a surface other than a printed surface
AssigneeNEC Corporation
InventorTakasi Hirose
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Abstract
A printer is provided, which comprises a printer body 20 including a paper sheet feeding unit for setting paper sheets therein for printing and a paper sheet discharging unit, and a printer controller 10 of the printer body 20. When setting again paper sheets after printing on one surface in the paper sheet feeding unit for printing on the other surface, the printer body 20 is adapted to print, under control of an instruction from the printer controller 10, a first symbol indicating that the paper sheets should be set in the paper sheet feeding unit with the upper, lower, left or right part of the printed surface directed in the paper sheet feed-out direction and also with the printed surface up or down.
Claims12
A printer apparatus comprising:
- a printing unit structured to print content on print media during a print operation;
- an input unit structured to receive the print media and to deliver the print media to the printing unit in one of a plurality of orientations;
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- a controller structured to receive information concerning the print media, and to instruct the printing unit during a first print operation to print a first symbol and the content on the print media, wherein the first symbol indicates the orientation in which the print media should be set in the input unit during a subsequent print operation on the print media.
A method for indicating how to orient print media in an input unit of a printer apparatus, the method comprising:
- submitting information concerning the print media in a controller;
- printing a first symbol on the print media in a first print operation as a function of instructions received from the controller,
- wherein the first symbol printed on the print media identifies the orientation in which the print media should be set in the input unit during a subsequent print operation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.