PRINTER, AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING IMAGE INFORMATION RECORDED

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a printer capable of protecting the copyright and suppressing the infringement of the right of reproduction. SOLUTION: In this printer for reading image information from a recording medium in which the image information is stored and forming an image based on the image information read on the recording material, the copyright information showing literary works is imparted to the recording medium. Or, when it is detected that the copyright information showing the literary works is imparted to the recording medium, the operation mode is shifted to a second mode to execute different operation.