Patent ID: 11875073
Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  Y | IPC G

Claim 3:
4. The printing device according to claim 1, further comprising:
a memory,
wherein the printing includes the accumulation printing in which the controller is configured to store print job data received from the external device in the memory and to print the print job data stored in the memory in response to receipt of a print instruction, the printing instruction not including an input of authentication information,
the controller is configured to:
store, in the memory, print setting information indicating that the accumulation printing is enabled, in a case where it is instructed to enable the accumulation printing;
determine that the printing is set to the accumulation printing, in a case where the print setting information indicating that the accumulation printing is enabled is stored in the memory; and
perform the print preparation processing of performing the predetermined preparation operation before printing, in a case where it is determined that the printing is not set to the accumulation printing, and

the controller is configured to accumulate the print job data without performing the print preparation processing, in a case where it is determined that the printing is set to the accumulation printing.