Printer
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHiroshi Kato
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Abstract
A printer, which is configured to be connected communicably with a storage device, includes a printing unit configured to print one or more pages with images formed thereon, based on print data, a thumbnail creating unit configured to create thumbnail image data corresponding to each of the pages to be printed by the printing unit, a storage controller configured to store, into the storage device, the thumbnail image data created by the thumbnail creating unit, and a print controller configured to, responsive to the thumbnail image data being successfully stored into the storage device, control the printing unit to print a page corresponding to the thumbnail image data successfully stored.
Claims12
A printer configured to be connected communicably with a storage device, comprising:
- a printing unit configured to print one or more pages with images formed thereon, based on print data;
- a processor;
- and
- memory storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the printer to:
- create thumbnail image data corresponding to each of the pages to be printed by the printing unit;
- create a name for the thumbnail image data corresponding to each of the pages to be printed;
- store, into the storage device, the thumbnail image data with the created name attached thereto;
- determine whether the thumbnail image data has been successfully stored into the storage device;
- control the printing unit to initiate printing of a page corresponding to the thumbnail image data successfully stored in response to determining that the thumbnail image data has been successfully stored into the storage device;
- update the name of the thumbnail image data depending on whether the page corresponding to the thumbnail image data is successfully printed;
- and
- store the thumbnail image data with the updated name displacing the previous name, in the storage device when the name is updated.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.