Patent ID: 7283275

Claim:
An apparatus for generating logo data to be stored in and printed by a printer, the apparatus comprising: a control data receiving unit configured to receive control data including specific settings data and model identification data identifying a model of at least one target printer, the target printer including memory in which the logo data is to be stored; a source data obtaining unit configured to obtain source data used to generate the logo data; a reading unit configured to read, based on the model identification data, model-specific data for the at least one target printer from respective model-specific data stored for a plurality of printer models; a logo data generating unit configured to generate the logo data by processing the source data based on the model-specific data read by the reading unit or on control data received by the control data receiving unit; and an output unit configured to register the logo data in the printer by instructing the printer to store the logo data generated by the logo data generating unit in the printer's memory.