Patent ID: 8179539
Filing Date: 2012-05-15
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A printing apparatus comprising: a template storing device that stores a plurality of templates; a receiving device that receives received data; a printing device that prints print data which is produced by inputting the received data to one of the plurality of templates; and a displaying device that displays a print image of the print data; and wherein the printing device prints received data including object print data and transmitted from an external device on a printing medium, wherein the template storing device stores template data where object print image which is produced based on the object print data are defined as a plurality of printing areas and where a position and a size of the printing area on the printing medium is defined as attribute information with respect to each printing area, the printing apparatus further comprising: a print control device that locates the object print data comprising the received data in the printing area according to the template data and controls the printing device to perform a printing operation; a preview data producing device that produces a plurality of preview data where the object print image corresponding to the object print data included in the received data is located in each printing area which is defined in the template data; a selecting device that selects one of a plurality of preview data produced by the preview data producing device displayed on the displaying device; and a print pattern setting device that sets an arrangement pattern of the object print data with respect to the template data according to the preview data selected by the selecting device.