Patent ID: 7273165
Filing Date: 2007-09-25
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. A printing system, comprising: a printer engine for printing print information on at least a print-information recording medium, said print information including at least one of contactlessly readable code information and image information visible to human being; an RFID reader/writer for writing RFID data consistent with the print information into an RFID chip carried on the print-information recording medium; and a printer controller for supplying print data, wherein said printer engine prints the print information on at least the print-information recording medium based on the print data received from said printer controller, said RFID reader/writer writes the RFID data consistent with the print data into the RFID chip, and the printing of the print information on at least the print-information recording medium based on the print data and the writing of the RFID data consistent with the print data into said RFID chip are controlled based on a common time basis by using information indicative of a time when the printer engine transmits a signal, to the printer controller, each time when a final raster for each page is output by the printer engine.