Printer with emulation card installation reporting feature

摘要

A printer capable of mounting various emulation integrated circuit (IC) cards storing control programs for matching the printer with various host computers and identifying the name of an IC card mounted therein. When it is determined by a central processing unit (CPU) in the printer that an IC card is attached to an IC card terminal and that the printer is being operated in a maintenance mode, data stored at a predetermined address in the card is printed and the type of card can be identified on the basis of the printed output.