Patent ID: 7903275

Claim:
A printer connected to a host device, comprising: a communication interface to communicate data with the host device, wherein the communication interface includes functionality to: receive a request command from the host device; send information corresponding to a number of the printer's usable object identifiers to the host device in response to the request command; receive, from the host device, a first printer setting information and object identifiers corresponding to the number of printer's usable object identifiers, wherein each of the object identifiers is associated with one of a plurality of print objects; send, to the host device, a data request for each of the plurality of print objects using the object identifiers; receive, from the host device, the print object data for each of the plurality of print objects; divide a prescribed printer area of a print recording medium into prescribed partial areas when said received first print setting information is designating automatic arrangement of print object data for at least one of the plurality of print objects; and request print object data for at least one of the plurality of print objects to be arranged within said divided prescribed partial areas from said host device based on said first print setting information.