CN112130777A - Distributed processing ink-jet printing method - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention discloses an ink-jet printing method. An ink-jet printing method is used for distributed rapid processing of printing tasks, improves the processing speed of printing data, avoids the situation that printing equipment waits for processing the printing data, and achieves rapid batch printing. The invention comprises the following steps: the master control computer deploys the print jobs to a plurality of slave computers; the master control computer sends the printing parameters to the slave computer to configure the printing parameters; each computer performs print data processing according to its designated task; and sending the print data processed by each computer to a printer, and carrying out printing control operation by a main control computer. The invention can improve the processing speed of the printing data, avoid the printing equipment from waiting for processing the printing data and effectively improve the printing efficiency.
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Technical Field
The invention relates to the field of digital printing, in particular to a distributed processing ink-jet printing method.
Background
In ink jet printing, a printer is generally controlled by a computer, a user adds a print job through printing software, the computer needs to perform a series of processing operations on the print job, and needs to split the print data into data of each color space, divide the print data into data segments, and process the print data to generate a data structure required by a printing device.
For a print job with a large size, it takes a long time for the computer to change the processing of the print job into the final print data, so that the printing apparatus often needs to wait for the processing of the print data, and the printing of the printing apparatus is stopped and waits.
In summary, the processing speed of the current printing job through one computer is relatively slow, which affects the printing time of the printing device, thereby reducing the printing efficiency.
Disclosure of Invention
The purpose of the invention is as follows: the invention aims to solve the defects in the prior art and provide a distributed processing ink-jet printing method, which uses a plurality of computers distributed in a network environment to perform printing data processing so as to improve the printing data processing speed and reduce the condition that printing equipment waits for the processing of a printing task, thereby improving the printing speed.
The technical scheme is as follows: the invention discloses a distributed processing ink-jet printing method, which comprises the following steps:
1) the master control computer deploys the print job to the slave computer;
2) the master control computer sends the printing parameters to the slave computer to configure the printing parameters;
3) the slave computer processes the printing data according to the designated task and sends the printing data;
4) the printer receives the print data processed by each slave computer;
5) and the main control computer performs printing control operation.
The invention is further improved in that:
step 1), setting a plurality of slave computers for independently printing data; the host computer is also used to print data independently.
The invention is further improved in that:
in step 2), when printing four colors, (C = cyan, M = magenta, Y = yellow, K = black):
using two computers, one master computer corresponds to C, M printing data processing, and one slave computer corresponds to Y, K printing data processing;
or four computers are used, one master computer is used for processing the C printing data, and three slave computers are respectively used for processing the M, Y, K printing data.
The invention is further improved in that:
in step 2), if the master control computer is connected with the slave computers through a network, the master control computer issues the printing operation information to each slave computer through the established network connection;
the master computer and the slave computer are connected and communicated with each other through a network under the environment of a local area network or a wide area network.
The invention is further improved in that:
the slave computer deploys configuration operation in the local computer according to the received operation information including an operation file list, an operation format and an operation size, and the master computer deploys and configures the operation of the master computer at the same time.
The invention is further improved in that:
and 2) configuring printing parameters, configuring the printing parameters to the main control computer by the main control computer according to the printing requirements, sending the printing parameters to each slave computer, and configuring the parameters by the slave computers according to the received printing parameters.
A further development of the invention is that,
the printing parameters comprise the color space type of the printing data, the data splitting format, the data initial position and the data size corresponding to each computer.
A further development of the invention is that,
in step 4), the printer receives the printing data processed by the main control computer and all the slave computers in parallel;
the master computer and all slave computers print data processing, such as four-color printing (CMYK), taking the configuration of four computers as an example, the master computer may be configured to process C print data, three slave computers respectively process M, Y, K print data, and the master computer and the slave computers process their own print data according to the configured print parameters, so as to implement parallel processing of print jobs.
The invention is further improved in that:
in the step 4), the printing data is processed by each computer, the corresponding printing data is sent to the printer, and the printing data is sent to the printer after being printed and checked by the main control computer.
The invention is further improved in that:
the printing check is that the main control computer checks all the computers, and the main control computer checks whether all the computers synchronously send printing data to the printer and checks and confirms the state of the printer so as to perform printing control operation;
the printing control operation is uniformly controlled by a main control computer, and the main control computer performs job printing according to the printer state information and performs corresponding printing motion control operation.
Compared with the prior art, the ink-jet printing method with distributed processing provided by the invention at least realizes the following beneficial effects:
the main control computer deploys the printing operation into a plurality of slave computers, the main control computer sends the printing parameters to the slave computers to configure the printing parameters, each computer performs data processing according to the appointed task, and sends the printing data processed by each computer to the printer for printing, so that the printing data processing speed is increased, the condition that the printing equipment waits for the processing of the printing task is reduced, the printing speed is increased, and the printing efficiency is effectively improved.
Of course, it is not specifically necessary for any one product that implements the invention to achieve all of the above-described technical effects simultaneously.
Other features of the present invention and advantages thereof will become apparent from the following detailed description of exemplary embodiments thereof, which proceeds with reference to the accompanying drawings.
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Various exemplary embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be noted that: the relative arrangement of the components and steps, the numerical expressions and numerical values set forth in these embodiments do not limit the scope of the present invention unless specifically stated otherwise.
The following description of at least one exemplary embodiment is merely illustrative in nature and is in no way intended to limit the invention, its application, or uses.
Techniques, methods, and apparatus known to those of ordinary skill in the relevant art may not be discussed in detail but are intended to be part of the specification where appropriate.
In all examples shown and discussed herein, any particular value should be construed as merely illustrative, and not limiting. Thus, other examples of the exemplary embodiments may have different values.
It should be noted that: like reference numbers and letters refer to like items in the following figures, and thus, once an item is defined in one figure, further discussion thereof is not required in subsequent figures.
In the embodiment of the invention, a main control computer deploys a printing job into a plurality of slave computers, the main control computer sends printing parameters to the slave computers to configure the printing parameters, each computer performs data processing according to the assigned task and sends the printing data processed by each computer to a printer for printing; the embodiment of the invention can effectively improve the printing efficiency and avoid the printing equipment waiting for processing the printing data. Specifically, a distributed processing inkjet printing method includes the steps of: 1) the master control computer deploys the print job to the slave computer; 2) the master control computer sends the printing parameters to the slave computer to configure the printing parameters; 3) the slave computer processes the printing data according to the designated task and sends the printing data; 4) the printer receives the print data processed by each slave computer; 5) and the main control computer performs printing control operation.
The embodiments of the present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the drawings attached hereto.
In the case of the example 1, the following examples are given,
as shown in fig. 1, the inkjet printing method of the present invention includes the following modules: a computer module group 101, a job assignment module 102, a parameter configuration module 103, a data processing module 104, a data transmission module 105, and a print control module 106.
The computer module group 101 includes a master computer and a plurality of slave computers, the master computer and the slave computers are connected through a network, and each computer processes printing data in parallel during printing.
The job distribution module 102 is configured to send the job parameters to the slave computers by the master computer in the computer module group 101, and the slave computers receive the job parameters and perform their respective job configurations.
The parameter configuration module 103 is configured to issue the printing parameters to each slave computer by the master computer in the computer module group 101, and the slave computers receive the printing parameters and perform respective printing parameter configurations so as to perform subsequent data processing modules.
And the data processing module 104 is used for processing the printing data by each computer in the computer module group 101 according to the configuration task, and each computer comprises a master computer and a plurality of slave computers.
A data transmission module 105, each computer synchronously transmitting the processed printing data to the printer; the print control module 106 checks the print data and the print status by the host computer, and performs a print control operation.
In the case of the example 2, the following examples are given,
the ink-jet printing method of distributed processing in the embodiment of the invention comprises the following steps:
The network connection is the network connection under the local area network environment or the network connection under the wide area network environment, the master control computer can issue commands or parameters and other information to the slave computers, and the slave computers can receive the information and return the processing results and other information to the master control computer.
The printing operation information comprises operation information related to an operation file list, an operation format, an operation size and the like, the slave computers receive the printing operation information and carry out respective operation configuration, and the master computer can carry out own operation configuration according to the operation information.
And step 203, the master computer sends the printing parameters to each slave computer to configure the printing parameters.
The printing parameters comprise parameters such as printing data color space types, data splitting formats, data initial positions, data sizes and the like corresponding to all computers, the slave computers receive the printing parameters and perform the corresponding printing parameter configuration, and the master computer performs the printing parameter configuration according to the printing parameters.
Each computer completes the configuration of respective parameters, so that the printing job is divided into a plurality of subtasks and corresponds to the master computer or the slave computer through the parameter configuration.
And step 204, the main control computer sends a print task starting command to each slave computer, each slave computer receives the starting command and starts each task, and the main control computer can start the corresponding task in the process.
And step 206, the slave computers perform the processing of the printing data according to the configured parameter information after starting respective tasks.
In steps 205 and 206, each computer performs parallel processing of print data corresponding to each print job.
And step 207, the main control computer sends the processed printing data to the printer.
In step 208, the slave computer transmits the processed print data to the printer.
In steps 207 and 208, the master computer and the slave computer send print data in parallel, and the print data is sent to the printer synchronously.
In step 209, the host computer checks the completion of the print data and the status of the printer, and performs print control operations on the print.
And step 211, when the printing is finished, the master control computer sends a printing finishing command to the slave computers, the slave computers receive the printing finishing command and finish the printing, and the master control computer finishes the printing work at the same time.
The main control computer and the slave computers are communicated with each other to realize the distribution of the printing operation and the printing parameters, so that each computer can correspond to respective printing tasks, and the printing operation data is processed in a plurality of computers in parallel, thereby shortening the processing time of the printing data, avoiding the condition that printing equipment waits for processing the printing data, shortening the printing time of the printing operation and improving the printing efficiency.
By the embodiment, the ink jet printing method with distributed processing provided by the invention at least achieves the following beneficial effects:
the main control computer deploys the printing operation into a plurality of slave computers, the main control computer sends the printing parameters to the slave computers to configure the printing parameters, each computer processes data according to the assigned task and sends the printing data processed by each computer to the printer for printing, the printing data processing speed is improved, the condition that the printing equipment waits for the printing task to be processed is reduced, the printing speed is improved, and the printing efficiency is effectively improved.
Although some specific embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail by way of examples, it should be understood by those skilled in the art that the above examples are for illustrative purposes only and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention. It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that modifications may be made to the above embodiments without departing from the scope and spirit of the invention. The scope of the invention is defined by the appended claims.
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1. A method of distributed processing inkjet printing comprising the steps of:
1) the master control computer deploys the print job to the slave computer;
2) the master control computer sends the printing parameters to the slave computer to configure the printing parameters;
3) the slave computer processes the printing data according to the designated task and sends the printing data;
4) the printer receives the print data processed by each slave computer;
5) and the main control computer performs printing control operation.
2. A distributed processing inkjet printing method according to claim 1, wherein:
step 1), setting a plurality of slave computers for independently printing data; the host computer is also used for independently printing data.
3. A distributed processing inkjet printing method according to claim 1, wherein:
in the step 2), when printing four colors, (C = cyan, M = magenta, Y = yellow, K = black):
using two computers, one master computer corresponds to C, M printing data processing, and one slave computer corresponds to Y, K printing data processing;
or four computers are used, one master computer is used for processing the C printing data, and three slave computers are respectively used for processing the M, Y, K printing data.
4. A distributed processing inkjet printing method according to claim 1, wherein:
in the step 2), if the master control computer is connected with the slave computers through a network, the master control computer issues the printing operation information to each slave computer through the established network connection;
the master computer and the slave computer are connected and communicated with each other through a network under a local area network environment or a wide area network environment.
5. A distributed processing inkjet printing method according to claim 4, wherein:
the slave computer deploys configuration operation in the local computer according to the received operation information including an operation file list, an operation format and an operation size, and the master computer deploys and configures the operation of the master computer at the same time.
6. A distributed processing inkjet printing method according to claim 1, wherein:
in the step 2), the printing parameters are configured, the main control computer configures the printing parameters to the main control computer according to the printing requirements, and sends the printing parameters to each slave computer, and the slave computers perform parameter configuration according to the received printing parameters.
7. A method of distributed processing inkjet printing according to claim 6,
the printing parameters comprise the color space type of the printing data, the data splitting format, the data initial position and the data size corresponding to each computer.
8. A method of distributed processing inkjet printing according to claim 1,
in the step 4), the printer receives the printing data processed by the main control computer and all the slave computers in parallel;
the master computer and all slave computers process the print data, such as four-color printing (CMYK), for example, four computers are configured, the master computer may be configured to process C print data, three slave computers respectively process M, Y, K print data, and the master computer and the slave computers process their own print data according to the configured print parameters, so as to implement parallel processing of print jobs.
9. A method of distributed processing inkjet printing according to claim 1,
in the step 4), the print data is processed by each computer, the corresponding print data is sent to the printer, and the print data is sent to the printer after being printed and checked by the main control computer.
10. A distributed processing ink jet printing method as claimed in claim 9, wherein said printing check is performed by the master computer for all computers, and the master computer checks whether all computers are sending print data to the printer synchronously, and checks to confirm the status of the printer, thereby performing the printing control operation;
the printing control operation is uniformly controlled by a main control computer, the main control computer performs job printing according to the printer state information and performs corresponding printing motion control operation.
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