Patent ID: 8988702
Filing Date: 2015-03-24
Classification: G06K,G06Q,G07G

Abstract:
1. A printing apparatus for printing a receipt in response to actual print data generated by deleting selected lines of data from print data received from a host computer, the printing apparatus comprising: a receiving unit for receiving a plurality of consecutive lines of print data from the host computer; a deletion line setting unit for setting a selected number of lines of the received print data for deletion to accommodate the printing of logo data on the receipt; a print data deletion unit for deleting the lines of the received print data selected and set for deletion by the deletion line setting unit to generate actual print data without modifying the host computer or any application running thereon; a printing unit for printing a receipt in response to the actual print data generated from the print data deletion unit without modifying the host computer or any application running thereon; and one of a first line setting unit responsive to detection of a leading edge of the receipt, and a specific character string storage unit for storing a specific character string line, either for enabling the setting of a counting sequence for counting deletion lines; wherein the deletion line setting unit sets a desired number of lines of the received print data to be counted for deletion based on one of the detected leading edge of the receipt and detection of the specific character string line in the received print data.