CONTENT GENERATOR, RECEIVER, PRINTER, CONTENT PRINTING SYSTEM

摘要

An STB (2) comprising a communication unit (202) for receiving printing contents including printing data and printing control information that is related to the printing data and includes printer information for specifying one or more printers or the type(s) of the printer(s) and a printing style sheet on which the setting of the printing of the printing data by the printer(s) is described and a printing style update judging unit (203) for extracting printing control information from the received printing contents, acquiring, from the printers (3) connected to the STB (2), printing specifications information including the information for specifying the printer(s) or the type(s) of the printer(s) and concerning the specifications of the printing output of the printer(s) (3), comparing the printer information included in the printing control information with the printing specifications information, and judging whether or not the printing style sheet is updated.