| 摘要 |
<p>A printer emulator having a function of emulating different types of printers which operate respective operation modes. The emulator is operable according to print data in a selected one of the operation modes of the printers, and includes a print data memory (43) for storing the print data consisting of at least one job unit each representative of a printing job. The print data include at least one mode-determinative code which determines an effective operation mode for each job unit of the print data. The emulator further includes a unit detecting device (32, S5, S9, S40) for detecting each job unit of the print data, a mode determining device (32, S7) for determining the effective operation mode for each job unit of the print data, on the basis of the mode-determinative code or codes, and a printing device (8, 32) for performing the printing job according to each job unit of the print data in the effective operation mode determined by the mode determining device. <IMAGE></p> |
