Patent ID: 9098781
Filing Date: 2015-08-04
Classification: G06K,H04N

Abstract:
1. A printing apparatus comprising: a print carriage incorporating a printhead and a communication unit configured to perform short distance wireless communication; a movement control unit configured to move said print carriage; a detection unit configured to detect, when said movement control unit moves said print carriage to cause said printhead to execute printing of print data, a wireless tag on a paper sheet using said communication unit; and a write unit configured to write tag information in the wireless tag detected by said detection unit, wherein the movement control unit moves said print carriage to scan a width corresponding to a wireless tag search range on the paper sheet before a number of wireless tags detected by said detection unit reaches a number of target wireless tags which are targets of write processing by said write unit, and moves said print carriage to scan a width corresponding to a printing range of the print data after the number of wireless tags detected by said detection unit reaches the number of target wireless tags.