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

Claim 0:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
a main body control apparatus including a storage;
a first cassette; and
a second cassette different from the first cassette including an additional control apparatus communicably coupled to the main body control apparatus,
wherein the storage has transmission queues that temporarily store commands to be transmitted to the additional control apparatus of the second cassette, and
when a plurality of sets of commands are stored in the transmission queues, the main body control apparatus carries out for each of the transmission queues the process of generating a first combined command that is a combination of the plurality of sets of commands stored in the transmission queues, and transmitting the first combined command to the additional control apparatus, and
the second cassette is controlled by the additional control apparatus based on the first combined command.