PRINTER, PRINTING CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• Main Authors: UEHARA SHINGO, HAYASHI MOMOKO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 28.07.2022
• Subjects: CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS; HAIRDRESSING OR SHAVING EQUIPMENT; HAND OR TRAVELLING ARTICLES; HUMAN NECESSITIES; i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; LINING MACHINES; MANICURING OR OTHER COSMETIC TREATMENT; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PRINTING; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS; STAMPS; TRANSPORTING; TYPEWRITERS

To provide a printer which does not shift to an operation other than printing operation inadvertently, and to provide a printing control method and a program.SOLUTION: A printer 1 includes an imaging device 51 which detects whether a nail exists in an arrangement area of the nail, a printed object. The printer 1 includes a control unit 31 which causes the imaging device 51 to detect whether the nail, the printed object, exists and determines whether to conduct an operation following an instruction for an operation other than printing operation based on a captured image, a detection result, when the operation other than the printing operation is instructed.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3 【課題】不用意に印刷動作以外の動作に移行することのない印刷装置、印刷制御方法及びプログラムを提供する。【解決手段】印刷装置１が印刷対象である爪の配置領域内について爪の有無を検出する撮影装置５１を備え、印刷動作以外の動作指示があった際に、撮影装置５１により、印刷対象の爪があるか否かを検出し、検出結果である撮影画像に基づいて印刷動作以外の動作指示に従った動作を行うか否かを判断する制御部３１と、を備えている。【選択図】図３