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Print control apparatus, print control method and printer

US7760373B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateDec 19, 2005
Grant dateJul 20, 2010
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Expiry dateJan 19, 2029

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F3/128
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A print control apparatus comprising: a first receiving unit that receives, from a printer, support language information indicating whether a particular kind of language is supported by the printer; a judging unit that judges, by referring to the support language information received by the first receiving unit, whether the particular kind of language which is supported by the print control apparatus is supported by the printer; a transmitting unit that transmits, to the printer, a specification information acquisition command for acquiring specification information relating to a specification supported by the printer if the judging unit judges that the particular kind of language is supported by the printer; a second receiving unit that receives the specification information which is transmitted from the printer in response to the specification information acquisition command; and a controller that performs processing according to the specification information received by the second receiving unit.

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