Printing device and method with function of keeping confidentiality of print information.

摘要

A printing device including a memory for storing print information transmitted from a host computer by an amount corresponding to at least one page of a prescribed sheet includes a printer for carrying out a printing operation of information stored in the memory, a print control for controlling the memory to successively store the print information therein in response to an instruction from the host computer and for controlling the printer to read out the stored print information and to carry out a printing operation of the read-out print information, a re-print control device for controlling the printing device to read out the information stored in the memory after the printing operation and to carry out a re-printing operation of the information, and an inhibiting device for inhibiting the re-printing operation by the re-print control device. <IMAGE>