Patent ID: 7461189

Claim:
An image recorder for recording image data into a recording medium and supplying the image data recorded into the recording medium to a connected host through a predetermined communication interface, according to one of a plurality of different communication specifications, comprising: a notifying device to notify the host of information indicating one or a plurality of different usable communication specifications, in reply to a request from the host; a checking device to check a communication specification specified by the host, according to a return from the host based on the information indicating the one or plurality of different usable communication specifications notified by the notifying device; a device to supply the image data recorded in the recording medium to the host through the predetermined communication interface, according to the communication specification checked by the checking device; and a device to preserve a mode which is selected by a user from a plurality of modes as to said communication specifications, in which said plurality of modes includes at least a first mode for notifying the host of information indicating a plurality of different usable communication specifications in reply to a request from the host, and a second mode for notifying the host of information indicating one usable communication specification in reply to a request from the host, and in which the notifying device notifies the host of information indicating the plurality of different usable communication specifications when the preserved mode is the first mode, and notifies the host of information indicating one usable communication specification when the preserved mode is the second mode.