Patent ID: 7554680

Claim:
A printer printing in correspondence with setting of various printing conditions, wherein the printer is adapted to subject a disk medium to printing, the printer comprising: a display adapted to selectively display a plurality of menu screens for setting the printing conditions; a memory for storing a standard menu screen and a specific-purpose menu screen as the menu screens, the standard menu screen including a plurality of menus selectable for setting the printing conditions, the specific-purpose menu screen including some of the menus of the standard menu screen such that some of the printing conditions set via the standard menu screen can also be set via the specific-purpose menu screen, and the specific-purpose menu screen including a menu screen for the disk medium including the menus of the standard menu screen related to printing conditions of the disk medium; a detecting device for detecting a particular operation performed with respect to the printer necessarily for subjecting the disk medium to printing; and a display controller for controlling the display, wherein, based on detection of the particular operation by the detecting device, the display controller operates the display to display the menu screen for the disk medium; a cover or guide, the cover being adapted to selectively open or close an insert opening into which the disk medium is inserted, the guide being set in the printer for guiding insertion of the disk medium into the printer, the detecting device detecting, as the particular operation, an open state of the cover or setting of the guide in the printer such that the guide can guide the disk medium.