Patent ID: 8913284
Filing Date: 2014-12-16
Classification: B41J,G06F,G06Q,G07G

Abstract:
1. A media processing device comprising: a processing unit that processes media; a first connection unit that receives a command sent from a host computer; a second connection unit that transmits the command received by the first connection unit; a control unit that controls executing a process by the processing unit based on the command received by the first connection unit, or controls transmitting the command received by the first connection unit from the second connection unit; and a second processing unit that executes a different process than the processing unit; and an external device control unit that detects a process that can be executed by an external processing device; wherein the external device control unit detects that the external processing device does not have a processing unit that is the same as the second processing unit, and wherein the control unit causes the second processing unit to execute the command received by the first connection unit.