Patent ID: 6902254

Claim:
A non-scan printer system comprising a plurality of fixed printer elements which are arranged to print along a width direction of a recording medium without being scanned across the recording medium, each printer element including: a one-color print-head group including a plurality of print heads for a single color; a head controller or controlling the one-color print-head group; and a host interlace circuit for controlling the one-color print-head group; wherein the plurality of printer elements are controlled by a single host computer; wherein the plurality of printer elements are respectively prepared in accordance with a plurality of colors to be used; wherein a protocol of the host interface circuit in each printer element is a small computer system interface, and each of the printer elements is identified with an identification number of the small computer system interface thereof; and wherein, when a number of colors to be used is increased, an additional printer element is provided which has an identification parameter different from the identification numbers of the small computer system interfaces of the plurality of existing printer elements.