Patent ID: 8228535
Filing Date: 2012-07-24
Classification: B41J,G06F

Abstract:
1. A print controlling apparatus for controlling the operation of a printer, the print controlling apparatus comprising: a setting information storing section that memorizes language type information or country area information that is set for the print controlling apparatus; a status acquiring section that acquires status information of the printer; an image acquiring section that transmits a code indicating the language type information or the country area information to a server when it is necessary to display a status notification screen for notifying a user of the status of the printer, and then acquires image data corresponding to the language type information or the country area information from the server; an image judging section that judges whether the image data acquired by the image acquiring section is image data that corresponds to the status of the printer or not; and a display controlling section that commands an image based on the image data to be displayed in the status notification screen if it is judged by the image judging section that the image data acquired by the image acquiring section corresponds to the status of the printer, whereas the display controlling section commands a predetermined default image to be displayed in the status notification screen if it is judged by the image judging section that the image data acquired by the image acquiring section does not correspond to the status of the printer; wherein the acquired image data is acquired as a part of advertisement data that also includes printer status data; and the image judging section judges whether the image data acquired by the image acquiring section is image data that corresponds to the status of the printer or not by comparing the acquired status information with the printer status data.