Patent ID: 8947725
Filing Date: 2015-02-03
Classification: B41J,G06K

Abstract:
1. A printer for printing on print areas according to print data representing information to be printed, while sequentially moving a sheet of paper, along which the print areas are arranged at predetermined intervals, in a direction of an arrangement of the print areas, the printer comprising: a print operation controller for controlling a print operation of the printer so as to stop movement of the paper to suspend printing on a print area and then to resume the movement of the paper and the printing on the print area; a determination device for determining if the print data includes data representing a QR code to be printed in a predetermined orientation with respect to the print areas, whether or not both of two finder patterns aligned along one side of the QR code in the print area for which the printing is suspended are at a position to be printed when movement of the paper is stopped; and a print operation correcting control configured for controlling the print operation, when the determination device has determined that both of the two finder patterns aligned along one side of the QR code in the print area for which the printing is suspended are at their positions to be printed when the movement of the paper is stopped, such that the two finder patterns of the QR code are not at respective positions to be printed at the same time.