JP2003335013A - Printing system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a printing system which enables users to simply operate to print by discerning a plurality of kinds of papers. <P>SOLUTION: The printer system has a paper shape detecting means for detecting an outline shape of a printing paper to be printed and a camera control means for controlling in accordance with the paper detected by the detecting means. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a printing system having a thermal transfer printer or an ink jet printer as a printing means, and more specifically, to electronic information captured by a still camera or a video camera for recording a still image, The present invention relates to a print system in which a computer or a printer suitable for printing out by the apparatus via a recording medium and a camera unit are integrated or separate.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a heat-sensitive printing paper is used as a printing paper, and a plurality of heating elements arranged in the main scanning direction are selectively driven to convey the paper in the sub-scanning direction. There is a line thermal transfer printer that prints in a dot line shape.

In recent years, with the progress of input devices for handling images such as digital cameras and digital video cameras on the input side, or scanners, a thermal transfer type printer device has attracted attention as a printing means.

This is because the ink jet printer only has a binary selection of whether or not the droplets are ejected. Therefore, a small droplet is landed on the paper, and apparent resolution and gradation are obtained by a method such as error diffusion. On the other hand, in the case of a thermal transfer printer, it is possible to easily change the controllable heat value in one pixel, so it is possible to obtain many gradations for one pixel. Therefore, it is possible to obtain a smoother and higher quality image than an inkjet printer. In addition, because the performance of the thermal head and the performance of the paper materials have also improved, it is possible to obtain image prints that are as good in quality as silver salt photographs, and especially in keeping with the recent advances in digital cameras. It is attracting attention as a printer for natural images.

On the other hand, with regard to ink jet printers, techniques such as making liquid droplets into small dots have advanced, and printers with higher image quality have also appeared.

Therefore, such a printer device and a photographing device such as a digital camera or a digital video camera are directly connected to each other or integrally configured, and a device for processing photographed image information such as a computer is provided. A system that prints without intervention has also appeared.

With such a system, image information from a digital camera or a digital video can be easily printed out like a photograph, which is very convenient.

As an example of these, for example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No.
0-243327 describes connecting an image input device and an image output device.

According to this, in the image input / output system in which the image output device and the image input device are connected, the image output device receives and outputs the image signal from the image input device. A power supply unit for supplying electric power to the image input device, wherein the image output device is connected by a connection cable for transmitting image data to the image output device and receiving power supply from the image output device. The image output device is connected to the image output device, and has a power supply unit that determines whether power can be supplied from the image output device, and the determination unit receives power from the image output device. If it is determined that the power from the image output device is used, if it is determined that the power cannot be supplied, the power from the power supply unit is used. According to this, since electric power is supplied from the image output device, it is possible to print out without worrying about the remaining amount of power of the image input device such as a digital camera, which is very effective.

The composite camera disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 9-65182 describes power saving during printing.
According to this, there is provided a compound camera having an electronic viewfinder and integrating a photographing means for recording image information on a recording medium and a printer means for printing out image information on a recording paper, wherein the printer means records. A control means is provided for controlling to stop the supply of electric power to the electronic viewfinder while the image information is printed out on paper. According to this, electric power is not supplied to the electronic viewfinder during printing, which is useful for saving power and is very effective.

[0011]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional example, when a system including a printer device and an image input device such as a digital camera is configured, sufficient downsizing, low cost, high speed, etc. are sufficiently solved. Did not give way.

Here, the printer unit generally has a plurality of paper types for printing.

[0013] One example is a standard paper for recording on a standard printing paper, or a so-called sticker paper which is provided with an adhesive layer on the back surface and is separated and attached after printing.

When handling a plurality of sheets such as standard paper and sticker paper, it is general that the user interface such as print settings differs depending on the standard paper and sticker paper, and the size of the image to be printed and the size of one screen. Optimal control is required for each type of paper, such as the number of frames to be entered is different and the heating control for printing is changed.

Under the current situation, printing has been conventionally performed on the back side of a specific sheet such as a sticker sheet, and the type of sheet is discriminated by reading the printing state.

However, in the case of such a configuration, there are the following problems.

Printing the identification marking on the back surface of the paper increases the cost of the paper. In addition, it is common to determine the type of paper after feeding the paper into the main body of the equipment for printing, and if the user mistakenly inserts the paper, the fed printing paper is wasted. There is a possibility that it will become unfavorable.

In addition, when the user is performing an operation for printing with a camera and the paper loaded in the printer is different from the screen to be operated, the user notices it only after instructing the print operation. There was also a poor operability.

Further, in order to discriminate the identification printing marked on the sheet before the sheet is fed, a discriminating means must be provided directly under the sheet, and a space is further provided below the cassette for accommodating the sheet. In some cases, it becomes necessary and the device becomes large. As described above, the conventional apparatus has a problem in that it is not possible to provide a printing system that is easy for the user to use.

In the apparatus disclosed in Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 5-178470, a reflection type sensor for detecting the presence or absence of a mark at a position above a paper feed case and facing a mark printed on a paper stored in the paper feed case. Is arranged, and the marked paper is detected to judge the paper.

However, with such a construction, there is a problem that the cost of the paper increases because the marking step is performed on the paper and that the sensor installation location is limited because the marking cannot be performed on the surface to be printed.

The present invention has been made in consideration of the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a printing system in which a user can easily perform a printing operation by discriminating a plurality of paper types. Is.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a small printer device that can determine the paper type before the printer device is driven.

[0024]

In order to achieve the above object, according to the present invention, according to claim 1, there is provided a camera having an image pickup means for converting an optical image of a field to be photographed into an electronic image signal. In a printer system including a printer device that visibly prints out an electronic image signal captured by the camera on a recording sheet, a sheet shape determining unit that determines the outer shape of the printing sheet to be printed, and the determining unit And a camera control unit that performs control according to the determined sheet.

According to this, the camera operates so as to control the camera according to the type of the paper loaded in the printer.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, the sheets used in the printing system have substantially the same maximum width regardless of the type of sheets, and at least one type of sheet is provided with a cut at the end portion in the longitudinal direction. There is something.

According to this, the sheet used in the printing system is a sheet provided with a cut at the end portion in the longitudinal direction.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, the sheet shape discriminating means of the printing system is provided inside the sheet width direction and has a detecting means for detecting the state of the cut portion at the edge of the sheet.

According to this, the sheet shape discriminating means is arranged at a position inside the sheet width, and operates so as to detect the cut portion at the edge of the sheet.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, a camera having an image pickup means for converting an optical image of a field to be shot into an electronic image signal, and the electronic image signal picked up by the camera are visibly printed on a recording sheet. In a printer system including a printer device, a paper shape determination unit that determines an outer shape of a printing sheet to be printed, and a camera control unit that performs control according to the sheet determined by the determination unit, and the camera And the printer device has a communication unit, and the communication unit performs the paper discriminating operation at least twice at the time of communication for the first connection confirmation by the paper shape discriminating unit and at the time of starting printing, and the discriminating operation. It has a control means for controlling the camera or the printer device based on the result.

According to this, the communication means performs the paper discriminating operation at least twice by the paper shape discriminating means at the time of communication for the first connection confirmation and when the printing start is executed,
It operates so as to control the camera or the printer device based on the result of the discrimination operation.

[0032]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings shown in FIGS. This printing system uses a sublimation type thermal transfer recording system for the printer,
The electronic image information can be printed out for any number of prints. This printing system will be described according to the procedure.

An embodiment of a general thermal transfer recording apparatus according to the present invention will be specifically described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a side surface of a recording apparatus according to the embodiment. First, the overall configuration of the recording apparatus will be described. The recording sheet P is stacked on the apparatus main body 1 and separated from the sheet cassette 2 by the sheet feeding roller 3 and fed. At this time, the recording paper P is pushed up by the push-up plate 21 urged by the spring 20.
Is in contact with the paper feed roller 3.

The apparatus body 1 is provided with a sheet discrimination sensor 28 just below the sheet cassette 2 at a corner portion for a sheet.

There are two types of this sensor. One is when the paper comes directly under the sensor depending on the shape of the corner of the paper, and the other is when the paper does not come under the sensor because a part of the paper is cut. It is possible to determine the type of paper from the difference in reflectance according to.

The paper discriminating sensor 28 of the present embodiment detects from the printing screen side of printing paper.

That is, in the type in which the back side is marked to discriminate the sheet, the sheet discrimination sensor 28 cannot be arranged at this position, which contributes to downsizing of the apparatus.

Since the sheet discriminating sensor 28 is provided at a position where the discriminating operation can be performed when the sheet cassette 2 is mounted, there is no problem that the type of the sheet cannot be known until the sheet is fed.

When a print instruction is issued, the recording paper P conveyed by the paper feed roller 3 is conveyed by the conveying roller pair 4
It is nipped and conveyed by the reciprocating recording unit. The transport roller pair 4 is composed of a pinch roller 42 and a grip roller 41.

In the recording section, the platen roller 5 and the thermal head 6 which generates heat according to the recording information are opposed to each other across the recording paper conveyance path, and the heat-melting or heat-sublimating ink stored in the ink cassette 7 is placed in the ink cassette 7. The thermal head 6 presses the recording sheet P with the ink sheet 8 having an overcoat layer overcoated on the printing screen to protect the ink layer applied with the printing screen and selectively heats it. A predetermined image is transferred and recorded on the recording paper P, and the protective layer is overcoated.

The ink sheet covers the printing area of the recording paper P and has ink layers of yellow (Y), magenta (M), cyan (C) and an overcoat (OP) layer of a size substantially equal to the size. The recording sheets P are arranged side by side, and the recording paper P is transferred to the recording start position P by thermal transfer.
It is returned to 1 and is sequentially transferred onto the recording paper.

In this way, the recording paper P is reciprocated by the number of the inks of each color and the overcoat layer by the pair of conveying rollers 4.

At this time, the recording paper P after printing of each ink layer is reversed in front of the apparatus main body 1 and guided to the rear of the apparatus main body 1 via the front portion of the paper cassette and the lower guide portion.
Since the recording paper P in the middle of printing is exposed to the outside because it is turned over in the front of the apparatus, there is no need to waste space or touch it unintentionally. There is.

Moreover, since the lower part of the paper cassette 2 is directly used as a paper guide, it is possible to reduce the thickness of the apparatus main body 1, and the recording paper P is transferred to the ink cassette 7 and the paper cassette 2. The entire height of the device body 1 can be minimized by passing the space between them, which enables downsizing.

Reference numeral 25 is a paper transport guide portion of the paper cassette 2. This is a guide unit for inverting the recording paper P that has been reversed from the front of the apparatus main body 1 to the rear of the apparatus main body, and by being provided in this paper cassette 2, it greatly contributes to downsizing of the entire apparatus main body 1.

Further, reference numeral 26 indicates that the upper surface of the paper cassette 2 also serves as a tray portion of the recording paper P which is printed and discharged.
This also contributes to downsizing of the device body 1.

After the printing of each ink layer is completed, the recording paper P is guided to the paper discharge rollers 1, 9-1 and the discharge rollers 2, 9-2 and discharged from the rear of the apparatus main body 1 to the front, and the recording operation is completed.

The discharge roller 1 is configured so as to come into pressure contact only when the recording paper P is discharged, so that stress is not applied during printing.

The apparatus body 1 includes a guide portion 1 for the recording paper P.
5 is configured to guide the recording paper P.

Reference numeral 16 is a conveyance path switching sheet, and after the recording paper P is fed, the recording paper P is guided to the discharge side path.

The thermal head 6 for printing is integrally provided on the head arm 22, and the ink cassette 7 is provided.
When replacing, the ink cassette 7 is retracted to a position where it does not interfere with insertion and removal.

This withdrawal operation can be performed by replacing the ink cassette 7 by pulling out the paper cassette 2. At this time, the head arm 22 is held by the cam portion 22-1 in conjunction with the attachment / detachment operation of the paper cassette 2. The cam portion 2-1 of the paper cassette 2 is retracted from above to move up and down.

In a normal thermal transfer recording apparatus, 3 colors of YMC are used.
Since the recording is performed sequentially in the rotational direction, it is necessary to control so that the recording front ends of the respective colors are accurately matched. For this purpose, it is necessary to firmly hold the recording paper P with the pair of conveying rollers 4 shown in FIG. Therefore, an unrecordable margin is required at the end of the recording paper P in the feeding direction. In view of this, finally, in order to easily obtain a printed matter having no border, as shown in FIG. 3, the recording paper P has a blank portion which is firmly nipped by the pair of conveying rollers 4 at the start of recording and cannot be recorded. A perforation 12 is provided so that it can be easily cut by hand later.

The present invention is carried out by using the recording paper P having the perforations and the thermal transfer recording device described above, and the perforation area provided on the recording paper is overcoated.

The area indicated by the diagonal line to the lower left is a printing area and is controlled so as to print an area including perforations. The overcoat is controlled so as to print so as to include a substantially printed area and a slightly larger printed area than the printed area.

Further detailed description of the apparatus will be given below.

In the recording apparatus 1 shown in FIG. 1, the conveying roller pair 4 comprises a pinch roller 42 and a grip roller 41. The grip roller 41 has an output shaft of a stepping motor (not shown) through a speed reducing mechanism. It is directly connected and can be driven forward and backward freely by controlling the rotation of the stepping motor. Since the recording paper P is firmly sandwiched by the conveying roller pair 4 and is reciprocally conveyed, the recording paper P is also precisely position-controlled and conveyed by the rotation control of the stepping motor. Now, as an example, the recording pitch of one line by the thermal head 6 is set to 85
If the number of steps of the stepping motor for feeding the recording paper P by one line is 4 steps,
The recording paper P can be conveyed by one line (that is, 85 μm) by controlling the rotation of the stepping motor in four steps. Assuming that the printing range shown in FIG. 4 is 144 mm in the transport direction, 1694 line printing is possible, and in order to transport the recording paper by this amount, the stepping motor may be rotated by 6776 steps.

In the recording apparatus 1 shown in FIG. 1, when the paper feed roller 3 is viewed from the paper feed roller 3, the recording paper front edge detection sensor 10 is placed at a position in the vicinity of the paper feed roller pair 4. The leading edge of the recording paper is detected, and after the detection, the predetermined line is fed and stopped within a range that can be held by the pair of transport rollers 4. This position is the position at the start of recording described above. From here, first, the thermal head is driven to generate heat in accordance with the recording information from the first Y yellow, a predetermined image of each color ink is recorded, or the overcoat layer is transferred. After the completion of one color, the recording paper is returned from this position in the direction of the paper discharge roller 9 and conveyed, and a predetermined number of lines are again fed back, and the YMC colors and the overcoat layer transfer are repeated four times.

In the recording apparatus 1 shown in FIG. 1, the distance between the recording sheet leading edge detection sensor 10 and the position where the platen roller 5 and the thermal head 6 press the recording sheet P is set on the recording sheet in consideration of the arrangement of parts inside the apparatus. Although the distance is set to 20 mm, it is not limited to this.

At this time, the printed matter shown in FIG. 3 is obtained by transferring and recording the respective color inks and transferring the overcoat layer based on the sequence described later.

Further, this paper represents a standard paper used for standard printing. In the standard paper, the four corners of the paper are partly cut out, and the four corners have an R shape on the extension line of the perforation.

By cutting the perforations of the standard paper, a printed material with rounded corners can be obtained, which is convenient when carrying the paper in a regular storage case.

The paper in FIG. 5 is a sticker paper.

As the seal paper, small sheets (seals 30) cut into a predetermined number of divisions are gathered on a large mount (mounting sheet 29), and an image is printed by the number of divisions. In the embodiment, it is divided into eight, but this is not the limitation.

Therefore, it is not necessary that the outer peripheral portion of the large paper as the mount has the R-shaped portions at the four corners unlike the standard paper.

The sheet discrimination sensor 28 is constructed to discriminate the difference in the shapes of the sheet and the four corners by using the difference in the type of the sheet.

FIG. 6 shows the position of the paper discrimination sensor 28.

The paper discrimination sensor 28 is installed inside the paper cassette and further inside the width of the paper.
It is also installed at a position where the front side of the printing screen of the paper is detected.

FIGS. 7-a) and 7-b) show the vertical positional relationship between the above-mentioned two types of paper and the paper discrimination sensor 28, and a) shows the paper discrimination sensor when standard paper is loaded. 28 is a positional relationship of 28, and b) is a positional relationship of the sheet discrimination sensor 28 when a sticker sheet is loaded.

The widths of the two sheets are the same, with and without a shape with a corner cut, and a sheet discrimination sensor 28 is provided so that the sensor can detect this portion.

As a result, when there is standard paper, the paper discrimination sensor 28 does not output because reflected light does not come from the paper, and in the case of sticker paper, the reflected light is sufficiently transmitted to the paper discrimination sensor 28 by the paper nearby. A predetermined output can be obtained for returning. The control means 19 detects this output and discriminates between the two sheets.

The color ink transfer and overcoat sequence will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

S0: When the user connects the printer main body 1 to the digital camera DC, the camera control means DC
S checks the state of the sheet discrimination sensor 28 via the control means 19 of the printer section. If the paper is standard paper, display the display for printing standard paper,
Further, when the sticker paper is loaded and the sticker paper is discriminated, it is controlled to display the display portion for printing the sticker paper.

In the case of sticker paper, it is used for printing a small image divided into, for example, eight divisions, so it can be used by displaying a display section that allows easy selection of the number of divisions suitable for this. The person can simply load the desired paper and the camera side can easily prepare for printing simply by selecting the menu that suits the application.

S1: The user gives an instruction for a printing operation by a print button (not shown) or a printing instruction from a digital camera or a digital video camera.

S2: Apparatus main body 1 The processing circuit 18 inside the apparatus main body 1 starts communication with the device that has issued the print instruction, and the processing circuit 18 requires various conditions for printing with the device that has issued the print instruction. And the image processing of the image information into the print information if necessary.

At this time, in this embodiment, the information from the paper type sensor 28 is fetched again.

As a result, when the paper is replaced in the middle, a warning is displayed on the camera side to call attention.

S3: When the preparation for printing is completed, the control means 19 drives the motor connected to the paper feed roller 3 to start feeding the recording paper P.

S4: After the leading edge of the recording paper is detected, the stepping motor is rotated by a predetermined number of steps to start printing. At this time, the printing start position is 1 with respect to the leading edge of the recording paper.
It was set to 2.465 mm.

S5: Subsequently, the stepping motor is switched to 4
While rotating for one step, the thermal head is driven to generate heat to print one line. A total of 6776 steps (1694 lines) are rotated to complete the printing. The print end position at this time is 15
It becomes 6.455 mm.

S6: Next, in order to decelerate to the stop, the stepping motor is rotated by 10 lines (40 steps) and stopped.

S7: From this state, the stepping motor is reversely driven, the recording paper P is conveyed in the direction opposite to that at the time of printing, the predetermined number of steps (6776 steps-deceleration amount) is returned, and further deceleration is performed by a predetermined value. The number of lines is rotated by 10 lines (40 steps) and stopped.

S8: The above process is repeated about three times for three colors of YMC, and a desired printed image is transferred and recorded on the recording paper P.

S9: After that, the overcoat layer for protecting the printed image is transferred once more.

S10: After that, the stepping motor is reversely driven to guide the sheet to the discharge roller 3 as it is, and the sheet is discharged by driving the discharge roller 3 to end a series of operations.

Further, in the above description, when the recording paper P is fed, the control means 19 determines the number of steps of the stepping motor and the recording paper based on the leading end detection signal of the recording paper first detected by the recording paper front end detection sensor 10. The recording position is managed by managing the number of steps of rotational driving of the stepping motor on the basis of the positional relationship at the time of conveyance of P at the time of recording all prints. At the time of transfer recording of the overcoat layer, a recording sensor is provided at the leading edge of the recording paper to detect the leading edge of the recording paper, and the signal is used as a reference to control the number of steps of rotational driving of the stepping motor to manage the recording position. It may be configured to perform.

Further, in the above description, the transfer of the overcoat layer is described to be performed only by turning ON / OFF the heat generation drive of the thermal head, but at the start of transfer of the overcoat, the heat generation amount is gradually increased, and At the end of the transfer of the overcoat, it is possible to add a control that is obtained by gradually reducing the heat generation amount.

Here, the communication between the device for executing the print instruction of S2 and the printer device will be described in more detail.

As an example, it is assumed that the digital camera DC executes the print instruction now.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram in which the digital camera DC and the printer main body 1 are connected.

It is assumed that the digital camera DC holds image information in the memory inside the digital camera DC after photographing. It is convenient to use a removable memory such as a compact flash (R) card or smart media as the memory.

By setting the mode of the digital camera DC,
Now it is assumed that any image is played.

Since the reproduction of the image information can be confirmed at any time by the liquid crystal display device provided in the digital camera DC, the user can arbitrarily call the photographed image information.

If the cable 27 or the wireless means can communicate with the printer main body 1, necessary information is communicated from the digital camera DC to the printer by a predetermined print execution button (not shown), and the printer is connected. A print output can be obtained from the apparatus main body 1.

The necessary information includes information on negotiations with the digital camera DC and the digital camera D.
It is information of the image to be printed from C, information added to the image information at the time of recording or after recording, and paper type information from the paper type sensor 28.

It is needless to say that the form of these devices does not change the effects of the present invention regardless of whether the printer unit is integrally formed or separated as a separate unit.

[0099]

As described above, according to the present invention, in claim 1, the camera having the image pickup means for converting the optical image of the field to be photographed into the electronic image signal, and the image picked up by the camera. In a printer system including a printer device that visibly prints out an electronic image signal on a recording sheet, a sheet shape determining unit that determines the outer shape of the printing sheet to be printed, and a sheet shape determining unit that determines the sheet shape determined by the determining unit. By having a camera control means for controlling the loaded sheets, it is possible to easily discriminate the loaded sheets, and the control in the camera can be performed finely, so that the user can easily operate the desired printing result. It has the effect that it can be easily understood.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, the sheets used in the printing system have substantially the same maximum width regardless of the type of sheets, and at least one type of sheet is provided with a cut at the end portion in the longitudinal direction. This has the effect that the paper can be easily identified and the device can be downsized.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, the sheet shape discriminating means of the printing system is disposed inside the sheet width direction,
By having the detection means for detecting the state of the cut portion at the edge of the sheet, there is an effect that the sheet can be easily discriminated and the apparatus can be downsized. In addition, it does not require marking on the paper and has the effect of reducing costs.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, a camera having an image pickup means for converting an optical image of a field to be photographed into an electronic image signal, and the electronic image signal photographed by the camera are visibly printed on a recording sheet. In a printer system including a printer device, a printer shape determination unit that determines an outer shape of a printing sheet to be printed, and a camera control unit that performs control according to the sheet determined by the determination unit, and the camera And the printer device has a communication means, and the communication means performs the paper discriminating operation at least twice at the time of the communication for the first connection confirmation by the paper shape discriminating means and at the time of starting the printing, and the discriminating operation. By having a control unit that controls the camera or printer device based on the result of (3) It has the effect of being to enable control according to the paper.

[0103]

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a first embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart 1 of the first embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram of a standard paper sheet according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a connection state of the first embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a diagram of a sticker sheet according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a position of a sheet discrimination sensor according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a vertical positional relationship between a sheet and a sheet determination sensor according to the first embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 device body 2 paper cassettes 3 paper feed rollers 4 Transport roller pair 4-2 Pinch roller 4-1 Grip roller 5 Platen roller 6 thermal head 7 ink cassette 8 ink sheet 9-1 Paper ejection roller 1 9-2 Paper ejection roller 2 10 Recording paper edge detection sensor 11 SW2 signal 12 perforations 13 Temporary storage image memory means 14 Print information memory means 15 Guide part 16 margin 17 Print area 18 Processing circuit 19 Control means 20 spring 21 push-up plate 22 head arm 23 Head cover A 24 Head cover B 25 Paper transport guide section 26 Output tray section 27 cable 28 Paper discrimination sensor 29 Mount 30 seals DC digital camera Control means for DCS camera

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A camera having an image pickup means for converting an optical image of a field to be photographed into an electronic image signal, and a printer device for visibly printing and outputting the electronic image signal photographed by the camera onto a recording sheet. A printing system comprising a sheet shape discriminating means for discriminating the outer shape of the printing paper to be printed, and a camera control means for performing control according to the sheet discriminated by the discriminating means. . 2. The paper used in the printing system has substantially the same maximum width regardless of the kind of paper, and at least one kind of paper is provided with a notch at an end portion in the longitudinal direction. The printing system according to claim 1, wherein the printing system is a printing system. 3. The sheet shape determining means of the printing system is arranged inside the sheet width direction, and has a detecting means for detecting a state of a cut portion of an edge portion of the sheet. Printing system. 4. A camera having an imaging means for converting an optical image of a field to be photographed into an electronic image signal, and a printer device for visibly printing and outputting the electronic image signal captured by the camera onto a recording sheet. In a printer system including the above, the printer and the printer include a paper shape determination unit that determines the outer shape of the printing paper to be printed, and a camera control unit that performs control according to the paper determined by the determination unit. The apparatus has a communication means, and the communication means performs the paper discriminating operation at least twice at the time of the communication for the first connection confirmation by the paper shape discriminating means and when the printing start is executed,
A printing system having a control means for controlling a camera or a printer device based on a result of the discrimination operation.