| 摘要 |
Without needing reserve printers of plural different types in preparation for an equipment failure, printing as desired can be quickly resumed by simply connecting a replacement printer. The printer 14 has two connection terminals enabling connecting to an external host computer 11 using a daisy chain connection, determines if an external device such as a host computer 11 or another printer 17 is connected to the connection terminals, and based on the result of said determination selects and prints from among specific plural types of print data output from the host computer through the daisy chain connection the print data of the type previously correlated to the connection status of the connection terminal. |
