METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING PRINTER INCORPORATING CURRENT CHECK FUNCTION Russian patent published in 2002 - IPC

FIELD: methods and devices for printer control and serviceability check. SUBSTANCE: device has identifying facility designed to find out if urgent command or at least one print command has been received and execution facility meant for executing urgent command and print command. If mentioned identifying facility finds out that print command has been received, mentioned execution facility stores received print command in input buffer memory and executes stored print command in sequence of its reception; if mentioned identifying facility finds out that urgent command has been received, mentioned execution facility executes this urgent command without delay. EFFECT: enhanced economic efficiency due to displaying and executing operations on main computer. 16 cl, 26 dwg