JP2004230630A - Printing system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a printing system that can prevent a user from being informed of wrong operation information by a method wherein it is judged whether or not a printer is a type of corresponding to an automatic paper gap adjustment function and the result is transmitted to a printer driver at a side of a host computer. <P>SOLUTION: This printing system is so constituted that the printer for printing inputted printing information on a recording medium and the host computer are mutually connected to each other. The printing system has the function of judging whether or not the printer is the type of corresponding to the automatic paper gap adjustment function and the function of transmitting the judged result to the printer driver at the side of the host computer. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI

Description

[0001]
TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a printing system using a small printer suitable for an output terminal of a small information processing device such as a word processor or a personal computer for consumer use. The present invention relates to a printer status notification system that determines and notifies a printer driver.
[0002]
[Prior art]
Conventionally, a printing system in which a host computer and an output device are mutually connected has been known. In a printer having such a printing system, in order to obtain a good printing result and to perform an operation for a user, a function of grasping the state of the printer and transmitting it to a printer driver on the host computer side. There is.
[0003]
The paper interval detection function is a function for detecting the distance between the ink ejection surface of the print head and the recording medium in the printer device. This is to make it possible to record at an accurate position by knowing the distance between the medium surface on which the printer records and the ink ejection surface.
[0004]
Conventional printers are provided with a lever for adjusting the paper interval, and the position for thick paper such as a postcard and the thin paper position of the machine can be set by using ordinary paper.
[0005]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
However, recently, there is a printer device having a function of automatically adjusting a paper interval, and in the case of a printer device having such a function, when a user prints thick paper or the like, the user can adjust the paper interval with a lever. Operation must not be performed.
[0006]
Therefore, it is necessary to inform the printer driver of the host computer whether the printer to be used at present is a model that supports the automatic paper interval adjustment function.
[0007]
Therefore, an object of the present invention is to determine whether or not the apparatus is compatible with the automatic sheet gap adjusting function and to notify the printer driver on the host computer side so that incorrect operation information is not transmitted to the user. It is to provide a printing system which can perform the printing.
[0008]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
The above-mentioned object has a function of referring to model information held in the printer device, determining whether or not the device is a device that supports the automatic sheet gap adjusting function, and transmitting a determination result to a printer driver on the host computer side. Achieved by providing.
[0009]
Therefore, according to the present invention, it is determined whether or not the printer device is compatible with the automatic paper interval adjusting function, and is transmitted to the printer driver on the host computer side. An operation can be issued, and it becomes easy to prevent the corresponding machine from performing any operation related to the paper interval adjustment.
[0010]
BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
[0011]
FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of the present invention. This is an example of a printer system, in which the printer device 1 and a host computer 11 are connected via an interface cable 10 as a communication medium.
[0012]
The host computer 11 has a RAM 3 in which application programs are stored.
[0013]
The printer device 1 includes a host interface unit 9, a CPU 2 in the form of a microprocessor, a program memory 5 in the form of a ROM, a data memory 6 in the form of a RAM, and an operation panel interface unit 7, which are interconnected via the internal bus 4. The operation panel 8 is connected to the operation panel interface 7.
[0014]
The host interface unit 9 is for communicating between the printer device 1 and the host computer 11, and a communication signal from the printer device 1 to the host computer 11 is output to the host computer 11 through the host interface unit 9, Communication signals from the host computer 11 to the printer 1 are input to the printer 1 through the host interface unit 9.
[0015]
The data memory 6 is used to read and write various kinds of temporary data used for executing the processing when the CPU 2 performs the processing according to the program stored in the program memory 5.
[0016]
The operation panel 8 is used by an operator to make settings for various operations of the printer 1 such as setting the online / offline state of the host interface unit 9. A signal input from the operation panel 8 is input to the internal bus 4 via the operation panel interface unit 7.
[0017]
FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an example of the status response program in the program memory 5.
[0018]
In step 201, model information inside the printer device 1 is acquired, and it is determined from the model information acquired in step 202 whether or not it is a model compatible with the automatic paper gap adjusting function. If there is, in step 203, "not compatible machine" is set in the status reply data, and if the model is not a model that supports the automatic sheet gap adjusting function, "not compatible machine" is set in step S204. Then, in step S205, the determination result is transmitted to the printer driver of the host computer 11 together with other status information of the printer 1.
[0019]
【The invention's effect】
As is apparent from the above description, according to the present invention, it is determined whether or not the apparatus is compatible with the automatic sheet gap adjusting function, and by transmitting this to the printer driver on the host computer side, incorrect operation information is transmitted to the user. Can not be.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an example of a status response program stored in a program memory 5 shown in FIG.
[Explanation of symbols]
1 printer device 2 CPU
3 RAM
4 Internal bus 5 Program memory 6 Data memory 7 Operation panel interface unit 8 Operation panel 9 Host interface unit 10 Interface cable 11 Host computer

Claims (1)

In a printing system in which a printer device for printing input print information on a recording medium and a host computer are mutually connected,
A printing system having a function of determining whether or not the printer is a machine that supports the automatic sheet gap adjusting function, and a function of transmitting a determination result to a printer driver of a host computer.

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