PRINTER, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PRINTER

• Main Authors: MASUZAWA KENTA, KATSUMA YOSHINORI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 26.03.2020
• Subjects: CONVEYING; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS,CABLES; i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; LINING MACHINES; PACKING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PRINTING; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS; STAMPS; STORING; TRANSPORTING; TYPEWRITERS

To execute printing when printing can be made even when specified printing paper cannot be fed, and improve convenience of a user.SOLUTION: A printer 10 includes a printing part 50 which prints an image on a printing medium, a storage part 30 storing a plurality of types of printing media, a conveyance part 40 which conveys one type of printing medium fed from the storage part 30 to a printing position 87 of the printing part 50, an analysis part 751 which determines execution propriety of printing based on the type of the printing image printed according to a printing instruction when the type of the printing medium specified by the printing instruction do not coincide with the type of the printing medium fed from the storage part 30, when the printing instruction specifying the type of the printing medium is received, a printing control part 755 which prints the printing image on the printing medium that has been fed from the storage part 30 and conveyed to the printing position 87 by the conveyance part 40 when it has been determined by the analysis part 751 that printing can be made.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】指定された印刷用紙を給紙できない場合であっても、印刷可能な場合に印刷を実行してユーザーの利便性を向上させる。【解決手段】プリンター１０は、印刷媒体に画像を印刷する印刷部５０と、複数種類の印刷媒体を収容する収容部３０と、収容部３０から給紙される１種類の印刷媒体を印刷部５０の印刷位置８７に搬送する搬送部４０と、印刷媒体の種類を指定した印刷指示を受け付けた場合であって、印刷指示により指定された印刷媒体の種類と、収容部３０から給紙される印刷媒体の種類とが一致しない場合に、印刷指示に従って印刷する印刷画像の種類に基づいて印刷の実行可否を判定する解析部７５１と、解析部７５１により印刷可と判定された場合に、収容部３０から給紙され、搬送部４０により印刷位置８７に搬送された印刷媒体に、印刷画像を印刷させる印刷制御部７５５と、を備える。【選択図】図１