摘要 |
PURPOSE: To prevent useless print processing after system reset by providing a means inhibiting an output of a remote diagnosis request at the output after the end of system reset. CONSTITUTION: A CPU 22 identifies attribute of received information and the obtained attribute information is stored in a nonvolatile buffer memory 28. When an important fault takes place during the reception of the remote diagnostic request from a computer, the system reset start processing is executed on the occurrence of a fault and when restart in the system rest is finished, whether or not a page included in the file being received is a page to be printed out is discriminated based on the attribute information. Thus, only an image information page to be printed out among pages included in a file received and left in the memory 28 before the system reset is printed out and the command page is released without printing out and useless print processing is prevented in the printer 18. |