Patent ID: 7324224

Claim:
A printer to be connected to a host machine, comprising: job accepting means for accepting a series of reception data via a RAW-mode physical channel from said host machine, wherein the series of reception data comprises a plurality of print job data, and wherein the plurality of print job data comprises a plurality of print jobs in succession; extracting means that extracts a print job in the plurality of print jobs from the series of reception data to create an accepted job, wherein extracting the print job comprises: accepting data in the series of reception data from a start-end pattern data to an end-edge pattern data to obtain accepted data; and grouping the accepted data into the accepted job; assigning means for issuing identifying information for the accepted job and assigning the issued identifying information; job managing means for managing the accepted job on the basis of the identifying information to obtain a managed job; generating means for generating, as a process for the job, image data on the basis of the managed job; and print means for control to print on a print recording medium on the basis of the generated image data.