The disclosure discloses a printer comprising a feeder, a printing head, a printer RFID tag comprising a tag antenna and an IC circuit part, a communication antenna, and a control device. The control device being configured to execute an information acquisition process for acquiring access point information via a wired communication connecting part from the printer RFID tag, the access point information being acquired by the printer RFID tag by tag communication, a transmission and reception attempting process for attempting information transmission and reception with an access point, by means of the mutually recognized wireless communication, a data acquisition process for acquiring desired print data acquired by the mutually recognized wireless communication when information transmission and reception by the transmission and reception attempting process succeed, and a printing control process for controlling the feeder and the printing head so that printing is performed on a print-receiving medium.

An information processing apparatus of the present invention manages whether to set each of a plurality of images as a retrieval target in a management unit, retrieves an image similar to an image of a first product from a plurality of images managed as retrieval targets by the management unit in a case where an instruction to start the execution of jobs for manufacturing the first product is issued, and performs control to execute the jobs used for manufacturing the first product and controls the management unit to manage an image corresponding to the first product as a retrieval target in a case where no image similar to the image of the first product is retrieved.

An apparatus including a communication unit configured to communicate with a communication device and be able to output data stored in a memory to the communication device even without power supplied from a power supply to the apparatus stores, in the memory, status information to specify the status of the apparatus in a state in which the power supply supplies the power to the apparatus.

A tape printing apparatus includes an input unit for inputting information, a posture determining unit configured to determine an apparatus posture, and an operation-mode setting unit configured to set an operation mode in one of a first mode for receiving printing data from an external apparatus and a second mode for generating printing data on the basis of the information input from the input unit without receiving the printing data from the external apparatus. The operation-mode setting unit sets the operation mode according to the apparatus posture determined by the posture determining unit.

A communication apparatus transmits service information indicating a first service to be executed via an external apparatus and containing address information for communicating with the external apparatus, with the service information contained in information for handing over connection to a communication method different from a first communication method, to another communication apparatus by the first communication method, and executes the first service based on communication performed by a second communication method different from the first communication method and executes communication between the communication apparatus and the external apparatus.

A communication device may communicate a first establishing command with an external device via a NFC interface so as to establish a first communication link, receive first target data from the external device via the NFC interface by using the first communication link, process a specific command included in the first target data so as to create second target data, select one type of disconnection method according to information included in the first target data from among plural types of disconnection methods for disconnecting the first communication link, and disconnect the first communication link by using the selected one type of disconnection method. The communication device may communicate a second establishing command with the external device via the NFC interface so as to establish a second communication link, and send the second target data to the external device via the NFC interface by using the second communication link.

A device capability attribute regarding a setting on communication parameters, and provision attribute information indicative of whether or not a communication terminal is in a state that it can provide communication parameters to another communication terminal are stored in advance. The communication terminal, where the device capability attribute has at least a provision capability of the communication parameters, is selected as a provision device. In a case where there are plural communication terminals where the device capability attribute has a communication parameter provision capability, a communication terminal where the device capability attribute has the communication parameter provision capability only is preferentially selected. In a case where the device capability attributes of respective communication terminals are equal, a communication terminal storing the provision attribute information indicative of the state that it can provide the communication parameters is selected as a provision device.

In a printing device, on a first condition including that a printer job language (PJL) command is received via the first communication interface that is a LAN interface, a computer performs prohibiting execution of the PJL command when the PJL command is classified into a first command type, and executing the PJL command when the PJL command is classified into a second command type different from the first command type. On a second condition including that the PJL command is received via the second communication interface different from the LAN interface, the computer performs executing the PJL command regardless of whether the PJL command is classified into the first command type or the second command type.

The disclosure discloses a printer comprising a feeder, a printing head, a printer RFID tag comprising a tag antenna and an IC circuit part, a communication antenna, and a control device. The control device being configured to execute an information acquisition process for acquiring access point information via a wired communication connecting part from the printer RFID tag, the access point information being acquired by the printer RFID tag by tag communication, a transmission and reception attempting process for attempting information transmission and reception with an access point, by means of the mutually recognized wireless communication, a data acquisition process for acquiring desired print data acquired by the mutually recognized wireless communication when information transmission and reception by the transmission and reception attempting process succeed, and a printing control process for controlling the feeder and the printing head so that printing is performed on a print-receiving medium.

Names of finishing-job storage folders stored within a portable electronic memory apparatus are limited to only names of known finishing workflows. Connection of the portable electronic memory apparatus to a printing system is automatically detected, and for each print job, the printing system is automatically instructed to perform a finishing workflow that corresponds to the name of the finishing-job storage folder in which the print job is located. The printing system is required to evaluate whether the printing system can perform the finishing workflow, based on the status of the finishing components. Thus, the printing system is required either to perform the finishing workflow (if the printing system can perform the finishing workflow) or provide a menu on a user interface of the printing system (if the printing system cannot perform the finishing workflow).