Patent ID: 9547813
Date: 2017-01-17
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06K

Claim:
1. A print control device comprising at least one central processing unit, CPU, the CPU causing the control device to at least: receive print data including operating mode information written in a markup language; acquire a status of a printer, and determine if the acquired status of the printer is on-line or off-line, in response to receiving the print data; determine if an execution condition is satisfied based on the operating mode information included in the print data and the acquired status of the printer; and send to the printer a print control command generated based on the received print data, and change the status of the printer to on-line when the execution condition is satisfied and the acquired status of the printer is off-line; wherein the print control command sent to the printer is an online print control command executable when the printer is online.