Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto
System for switching from a first control program to a second control program based on discriminated transport status of recording medium
There is disclosed an information processing apparatus, such as a printer, capable of selectively using plural control programs by utilizing an external memory, such as a program cartridge, containing additional programs. When a switching of control program is requested for example by a switch, the start address of the requested program is indirectly obtained by referring to a fixed address of the memory cartridge containing the requested program.
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
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Yutaka Kunio Yoshiaki Haruo
Murakami Okada Kawamura Fujita