Patent ID: 7019779

Claim:
A printer for printing an image based on image data and attendant information associated with the image data, the printer comprising: means for synthesizing the image data with the attendant information to produce print image data; means for printing an image based on the print image data; means for changing an orientation of attendant information to be superimposed on the image, to one of a plurality of predetermined orientations, said changing means changing the orientation of the attendant information in accordance with a predetermined operation by a user so that the attendant information is synthesized with the image, oriented appropriately for an orientation of the image data; and an operation unit including four operation sections corresponding to upward, downward, leftward and rightward, wherein the changing means sets, in accordance with a user's operation of the operation unit, the position of the attendant information on the image data along one of upper, lower, left and right edges of the image data, and changes the orientation of the attendant information in accordance with the set position; wherein the changing means includes means for shifting the position of the attendant information along the one of the upper, lower, left and right edges in accordance with a user's operation of that one of the four operation sections, which corresponds to the one of the upper, lower, left and right edges.