To smoothly receive data sent one-sidedly from a transmission side.

The printer includes a data communication part which carries out transmission and reception of data to and from the outside, a FIFO buffer which temporarily stores reception data received by the data communication part, a DMA controller which sequentially transfers the reception data stored in the FIFO buffer to a main memory, a CPU which analyzes the reception data stored in the main memory, a buffer memory in which data of one frame transmitted to the outside by the data communication part is stored, and a printing part which carries out printing on a medium on the basis of the reception data.