Data printing system, portable terminal device and computer-readable medium

摘要

The present invention allows desired printing to be easily achieved not with complex operation but with intuitive operation. In the present invention, short-range communications can be made between a portable terminal device and a copy machine. When the portable terminal device is placed on a placement table of the copy machine, the copy machine detects the placement state of the portable terminal device (for example, landscape orientation or portrait orientation), determines a print format (for example, printing in a vertical direction or a horizontal direction as a printing direction) according to this placement state, and performs printing of print data received from the portable terminal device according to the print format.

主权项

1. A data printing system including a printing device which receives and prints print data and a portable terminal device which transmits the print data to the printing device, the system comprising:
a state identifying section which identifies a placement state of the portable terminal device; a determining section which determines print control information according to the placement state identified by the state identifying section; a receiving section which receives print data from the portable terminal device; and a printing section which prints the print data according to the print control information determined by the determining section, wherein the state identifying section identifies a position of the portable terminal device placed on a placement surface of the printing device, as the placement state, and wherein the determining section determines print control information indicative of a paper size according to the position of the portable terminal device identified as the placement state by the state identifying section.