摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a printer device capable of reading information from a tag in a short time with a simple configuration. <P>SOLUTION: When reading information showing ink consumption amounts of ink cartridges 22a-22d respectively recorded by a plurality of tags 36-39, an information read instruction and an ID specifying each the tag 36-39 are converted into a wireless signal and are transmitted. Thereby, the wireless signal can be transmitted to all the tags 36-39 at a time by one transmission antenna 54 and one transmission circuit 55. By changing over reception antennas 50-53 one by one by a changeover switch 57, the wireless signals from all the tags 36-39 can be received by one reception circuit 56. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI |