Patent ID: 11934714
Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  Y | IPC G

Claim 8:
9. An image forming apparatus comprising:
a control apparatus including a storage;
a first cassette; and
a second cassette different from the first cassette and communicably coupled to the control apparatus,
wherein the storage has transmission queues that temporarily store data to be transmitted to the second cassette, and
when a plurality of sets of data are stored in the transmission queues, the control apparatus carries out for each of the transmission queues the process of generating first combined data that is a combination of the plurality of sets of data stored in the transmission queues, and transmitting the first combined data to the second cassette, and
wherein the second cassette is formed of a plurality of second cassettes, and
the storage has the transmission queues for each of the plurality of second cassettes communicably coupled to the control apparatus,
the plurality of second cassettes are coupled to a bus-shaped communication line to which the control apparatus is coupled, and
the control apparatus carries out the process for each of the transmission queues in sequence to communicate with the plurality of second cassettes.