Printing apparatus and control method

Abstract

The invention discloses a printing apparatus and a control method, which can effectively print images of printed objects. The printing apparatus includes a receiving unit, which receives image data including images representing printed objects from an external device and shows the printing data of printing size of the length of images in the width direction and in the height direction; a first determining part, which compares the printing size with the effective printing size shown on the printing medium, and determines whether the printing size is contained in the effective printing size; a second determining part, which determines whether the printing size, whose length in the width direction and in the length direction is switched, is contained in the effective printing size, when the first determining part determines that the printing size is not contained in the effective printing size; a rotating part, which rotates the images by 90 or 270D, when the second determining part determines that the printing size is contained in the effective printing size; and a printing part, which prints the images on the printing medium.

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[0001] This application claims the priority of the Japanese application with the filing date of October 26, 2017 and the application number JP2017-207357, and cites the content of the above application, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety. technical field [0002] Embodiments of the present invention relate to a printing device and a control method. Background technique [0003] Currently, printing devices have been used in various fields. The printing device concerned receives print data from a host device, and performs printing using the print data. For example, the print data indicates a size at the time of printing (print size), and the printing apparatus performs printing in the indicated print size. [0004] However, in the above-mentioned printing apparatus, the size that can actually be printed on paper (hereinafter referred to as effective print size) is limited due to the structure of the print head, the setting of the blank...

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Problems solved by technology

However, in this prior art, since there is a possibility that the print size of the image cannot be contained within the effective print size, it is difficult to solve the above-mentioned problems.

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