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Title:
RECORDER AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP3492258
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To send back status data even in a condition where a host computer cannot make setting of a reply item.
SOLUTION: This recorder is provided with a bidirectional interface for sending back the status data in reply to a status request from the outside. When power is supplied, activation is performed in a step S11 and a prescribed reply item decided beforehand is set in a RAM in the step S12. Then, by the steps S13, S15 and S16, at the time of receiving the status request from the outside, the status data are generated for the reply item set in the RAM and outputted. The reply item inside the RAM is updated from the host computer by the step S13 and S14.


Inventors:
Takeaki Nakano
Application Number:
JP30150199A
Publication Date:
February 03, 2004
Filing Date:
October 22, 1999
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Assignee:
Canon Inc
International Classes:
B41J2/05; B41J29/38; G06F3/12; (IPC1-7): G06F3/12; B41J2/05; B41J29/38
Domestic Patent References:
JP8267877A
JP852924A
JP5216600A
JP6149490A
JP9254391A
JP839815A
JP9141977A
JP2231178A
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Yasunori Otsuka (2 outside)