In a printing apparatus which prints by serial scanning, a control command and image data formed from a plurality of rasters as a unit that are received from a connected host apparatus are stored in a reception buffer. Whether to perform marginless printing of printing on the entire surface of a printing medium is determined on the basis of information on the size of image data and information on the size of the printing medium that are contained in the control command. When marginless printing ...

Print control information containing information on a print reference position, print area designation region, and print medium, and image data corresponding to the print area designation region are received via an I/F. An MPU determines the print reference position concerning printing of the image data on the basis of the print control information. The rejection amount of image data which is not used for printing but is rejected out of the image data is calculated on the basis of the determinat...

A select-shock control system of an automotive automatic transmission is shown. The transmission has an engaging element which becomes engaged due to application of hydraulic pressure thereto when it is needed to shift the transmission from a neutral condition to a drive condition. The control system comprises a select determination section which determines whether or not the transmission should be actually shifted from the neutral condition to the drive condition; an accelerator pedal depressio...

A downshift control device for an automatic transmission is provided in which the transmission is shifted down by releasing an oil pressure from a first engaging element that has been engaged while applying an oil pressure to a second engaging element that has been released. Thus downshift control device includes power-on downshift determining mechanism, gear-ratio detecting mechanism for detecting a gear ratio that changes during power-on downshift control, downshift released pressure control m...

A downshift control device for an automatic transmission is provided in which a drive command is generated to a shift actuator when a shift command to change a gear ratio of the transmission is generated, to switch a shift valve and change oil paths, thereby to release a first engaging element that has been engaged in a first gear position established by the automatic transmission before the shifting operation, and engage a second engaging element that has been released in the first gear positio...

A hydraulic control device determines whether the transmission is being shifted down, and upon determination of the shift-down action, determines whether the vehicle is in a power-on condition or in a power-off condition. Upon determination of the power-off condition, the hydraulic control device regulates the control oil pressure applied to the engaging element, such that the oil pressure is rapidly increased from the beginning of a shifting process, and is maintained at a high level until the ...

A .pi./4 shift QPSK modulator includes a pre-processing part for subjecting an input transmitting code sequece to a pre-processing, a modulator part for selectively subjecting the transmitting code sequence received via the pre-processing part to a modulation in conformance with QPSK and a modulation in conformance with a .pi./4 shift QPSK, and an output part for outputting a modulated signal having a burst form based on an output of the modulator part depending on a burst signal having leading ...

In select-shock control apparatus and method for a vehicular automatic transmission, the automatic transmission having a friction element to be released when a range selection from a vehicular running range to a neutral range occurs, a determination is made whether the range selection from the vehicular running range to the neutral range occurs; a transient hydraulic pressure control is performed such that a hydraulic pressure drawn out from the friction element is reduced up to a pressure level...

A thin-film forming method comprising an uncured-layer forming step in which a mixed composition containing an organic polymerizing agent curable composition and a silicone polymerizing curable composition is prepared to form an uncured layer consisting of this mixed composition on a resin substrate; a solvent removing step in which the solvent in the uncured layer is removed; a first polymerization curing step in which the organic polymerizing curable composition in the uncured layer is polymer...

A thin-film forming method comprising an uncured-layer forming step in which a mixed composition containing an organic polymerizing agent curable composition and a silicone polymerizing curable composition is prepared to form an uncured layer consisting of this mixed composition on a resin substrate; a solvent removing step in which the solvent in the uncured layer is removed; a first polymerization curing step in which the organic polymerizing curable composition in the uncured layer is polymer...