RECORDING DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR REPLACING FONTS WITH PRINTER FONTS CORRELATES PRINT DATA ATTRIBUTES

摘要

A recording device, a control method for a recording device, and a program can record even when recording using a font that is not internally stored by the recording device is specified. A printer 2 that records on a recording medium using a font specified by a host computer 4 has font substitution information 24C that correlates specified fonts to internal fonts based on the number of columns per line that can be recorded on the recording medium using the specified font. When a font is specified by the host computer 4, the printer 2 substitutes an internal font for the specified font based on the font substitution information 24C.

主权项

1. A recording device that connects to an external device and records characters on a recording medium, comprising:
a memory unit storing a plurality of pre-stored internal fonts; and a control unit coupled to the memory unit and configured to: replace a specified font with the one of the pre-stored internal fonts based on a recordable column count of the specified font per line on the recording medium when the specified font is specified by the external device.