Patent ID: 8089640

Claim:
A motor vehicle tachograph printer for printing on a print medium, comprises: a printing unit for printing on the print medium; a conveying drive for moving the print medium in and out of the printer; at least one sensor for determining the locations of one or more printed markings on the print medium; and a control unit coupled to the printing unit, the conveying unit and the at least one sensor, wherein the control unit is configured to: store information regarding a plurality of different print configuration designs, including (a) locations for one or more printed markings corresponding to each different print configuration design and (b) print content corresponding to each different print configuration design; identify, based on the stored information, a particular one of the print configuration designs corresponding to the locations of the one or more printed markings determined by the at least one sensor; identify, based on the stored information, the print content corresponding to the identified particular configuration design; and activate the printing unit to print the identified print content onto the print medium.