PRINTING CONTROL METHOD AND TRANSMISSION CONTROLLER

摘要

Image or text data acquired from a recorded medium loaded in a first apparatus connected to a digital communication control bus such as an IEEE 1394 bus or acquired from external is displayed on predetermined display means, the image or text data is transmitted through a predetermined transmission line set up on a bus to a second apparatus having a printing function and connected to the bus when an instruction to print display data is issued according to an instruction on the basis of the display by the display means, the transmitted data is printed by the second apparatus, thereby printing data simply by using an apparatus connected to a network through a digital communication control bus.