Patent ID: 7436534

Claim:
A printer comprising: a print station; a control member which controls said print station; an operation panel; a read-only memory (ROM) which stores a maintenance process program and a model-specific database containing menu information, which is undisclosed to a user, for carrying out a setting of said print station; and a random-access memory (RAM) which loads the maintenance process program; wherein the model-specific database contains menu information for plural models and a model ID; wherein the printer is configured such that, when a maintenance mode is selected: said model-specific database is accessed; said maintenance process program is loaded into the RAM; a maintenance process member is provided, which carries out reading of menu information corresponding to a model ID of the print station, and which becomes a menu storage member; a menu process member displays menu information of the menu storage member and receives an input; and a control member carries out a setting of said print station in accordance with said received input.