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Printing Apparatus and Print Control Apparatus Background of the Invention
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Copyright Year | 2017 |
| Abstract | (75) Inventor: Shigeyuki Takahashi, Nagano-ken (JP) Correspondence Address: (57) ABSTRACT HOGAN & HARTSON L.L.P. 500 S. GRAND AVENUE The present invention provides a printing apparatus that can SUTE 1900 be continuously used without imposing enormous cost and LOS ANGELES, CA 90071-2611 (US) time on the user, even if a memorv Storing a information s y 9. (73) Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION unique to a components is damaged, and a print control apparatus for controlling the printing apparatus. After the (21) Appl. No.: 10/981,732 power of the printing apparatus is turned ON, it is judged first whether an upload is to be performed before initializa (22) Filed: Nov. 4, 2004 tion operation. This is judged by judging whether an engine (30) Foreign Application Priority Data board is one newly installed based on a value Stored in a EEPROM at the engine side. Upload is performed if the Nov. 6, 2003 (JP)...................................... 2003-376775 engine board is one newly installed. If not, the engine Publication Classification information stored in the EEPROM at the engine side is backed up to the main side. Before performing the upload, (51) Int. Cl." ........................... G06F 11/00; G06F 12/16; it is judged whether the printing apparatus Satisfies the G06F 13/00 |
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