JP2006244037A - Printer - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a printer, a printing system and a program, allowing anyone to easily print a WEB site including the whole information inside a form. <P>SOLUTION: This printer has: a form detection means detecting a drawing element constituting the form; and a form print mode setting part setting a normal print mode for printing only a document of a portion displayed in the form about the drawing element constituting the form in HTML data of a printing target, a reduced print mode for reducing a font size of a document inside the form and printing it about the drawing element constituting the form in the HTML data of the printing target, and an other page print mode for printing the document page among the drawing elements constituting the form in the HTML data of the printing target, on another. When the form is detected by the form detection means, the HTML data of the printing target are printed according to a mode setting state of the form print mode setting part. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a printing apparatus, a printing system, and a program that enable anyone to easily print a WEB site where a form exists, including all documents in the form.

  In recent years, various display methods have been used on WEB sites on the Internet. A website that divides the display screen of the WEB site into several blocks and a form that displays only a part of a long document and displays the other necessary parts by moving the scroll bar. Often used as a layout means.

  In particular, the latter form has a utilization method as shown in FIG. 2A as a method of displaying update information on the WEB site. FIG. 2A shows a display screen of a WEB site, and 201 shows a form. By moving the scroll bar 203, necessary information of the document 202 can be displayed. Since the latest update information is displayed by default, it is easy for WEB site visitors to check whether the displayed information is the latest information, and the past update history is also easy by moving the scroll bar. It is possible to confirm.

  On the other hand, when printing a WEB site having a form as shown in FIG. 2A, conventionally, only the information displayed on the form as default is printed as shown in FIG. The information displayed by movement could not be printed.

As a conventional example, for example, Patent Document 1 can be cited.
JP 2000-2105017 A

  However, the above prior art has the following problems.

  In other words, in the conventional method, when it is desired to print the information in the form, the WEB site viewer selects the form, or copies the form information, pastes it in other software such as a word processor, and then prints it. It was necessary to print according to the procedure, which required time and very troublesome work.

  Further, in the conventional method, if the WEB site viewer is a beginner on the Internet or a PC, even if he / she wants to print information in the form, he / she does not know the procedure for selecting the form or copying and pasting the form information. In some cases, the result was to give up printing the information in the form.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and in particular, provides a printing apparatus, a printing system, and a program capable of easily printing a WEB site where a form exists, including all of the information in the form. It is aimed.

  In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides an HTML data reading means for reading HTML data from a HTML data storage destination connected to a network, and a character string to be displayed from the HTML data read by the HTML data reading means. An HTML data analyzing unit that extracts an image or the like and divides the drawing element into drawing elements, and the drawing elements extracted by the HTML data analyzing unit are arranged according to the size of the display area to construct a display layout. Layout analyzing means, form detecting means for detecting drawing elements constituting the form from the HTML data, and drawing elements constituting the form in the HTML data to be printed Normal print mode for printing only documents and HTML data to be printed The drawing elements composing the form print in a reduced print mode in which the font size of the document in the form is reduced, and the HTML data to be printed, among the drawing elements composing the form, the document is printed on another page. A form print mode setting unit for setting another page print mode, and when the form is detected by the form detection unit, the HTML data to be printed is changed according to the mode setting state of the form print mode setting unit. It is characterized by printing.

  Further, in the HTML data to be printed, whether or not the entire document is printed in the form when the drawing element constituting the form is in the reduced print mode in which the font size of the document in the form is reduced is printed. When the form display determination means for determining, the font size detection means for detecting the font size of the document of the drawing element constituting the form, and the form display determination means determine that the entire document is not printed in the form, A font size changing means for reducing the font size of the document by one; a font that defines a minimum font size with respect to the font size, and compares the font size detected by the font size detecting means with the minimum font size; Size comparison means, and the form display determination means When all the documents is determined to be printed on, it is desirable to print the entire document in said form with the font size.

  Further, in the HTML data to be printed, whether or not the entire document is printed in the form when the drawing element constituting the form is in the reduced print mode in which the font size of the document in the form is reduced is printed. When the form display determination means for determining, the font size detection means for detecting the font size of the document of the drawing element constituting the form, and the form display determination means determine that the entire document is not printed in the form, A font size changing means for reducing the font size of the document by one; a font that defines a minimum font size with respect to the font size, and compares the font size detected by the font size detecting means with the minimum font size; Size comparison means, and the font size comparison means includes the font size comparison means. Detection font size cement size detecting means, when it is determined that less than the minimum font size, it is desirable to switch the mode of the form printing mode setting unit to the another page printing mode.

  Further, in the HTML data to be printed, a print page detecting means for detecting a print page of the HTML data to be printed in a different page print mode in which a document is printed on another page among drawing elements constituting a form. And determining the page on which the document is printed out of the drawing elements constituting the form according to the print page detected by the print page detecting means, and printing the page in which the document in the form is printed. The document in the form is preferably printed on a page on which the document is printed.

  As described above, according to the present invention, when a form exists on the WEB site to be printed and all information in the form is to be printed, the WEB site viewer selects the form or copies the form information. There is no need to print by another procedure such as pasting to other software such as a word processor and printing, and the WEB site including all of the information in the form can be printed easily and in a short time.

  Also, WEB site visitors are beginners on the Internet and PC, and anyone can easily include all of the information in the form without knowing the procedure such as selecting the form or copying and pasting the form information. You can print a WEB site.

  Further, when the entire document is reduced and the entire document is printed, by defining the minimum font size, it is possible to eliminate the problem that, as a result of printing, characters are small and difficult to read.

  Further, by printing the page number on which the document in the form is printed in the form, the user can easily check the document in the printed form.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a printing apparatus with a WEB print function capable of displaying and printing a WEB site by connecting to the Internet without using a personal computer (hereinafter referred to as a PC) will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. .

FIG. 1 is an overview of a printing apparatus with a WEB print function according to the present invention.
As shown in FIG. 1, a printing apparatus 100 with a WEB print function in this embodiment has an Internet connection port 106 for connecting to the Internet, a display unit 101 for displaying a WEB site, print status, and the like, and functions as an alternative to a mouse. A touch pad 102 for performing operations such as clicking and scrolling, an input means 103 for inputting characters and numbers, a print execution button 104 for executing and stopping printing, and an ink cartridge for mounting and replacing an ink cartridge A unit 105, a paper discharge port 107 for discharging printed paper, a paper discharge tray 108, and the like.

  FIG. 4 shows an internal configuration of the printing apparatus 100 with a WEB print function according to the present invention. The printing apparatus 100 with a WEB print function includes an input unit 401, a work memory 402, a program storage memory 403, an HTML processing unit 404, a network I / F unit 405, a display unit 407, an image processing unit 408, a controller 409, and a printer unit. 410, a power source 415, and a CPU 406 for controlling each block. The printer unit 410 includes various motors 413, various motor driving units 411, a print head 414, and a print head driving unit 412.

  As described in the conventional example shown in FIG. 2, when the form 201 exists on the WEB site 200 to be printed, the input unit 401 prints only the portion of the document 202 displayed on the form 201. For switching between a separate page print mode for printing the document displayed on the page 201 on a separate page independently, and a reduced print mode for printing the document displayed on the form 201 while reducing the document to fit within the form 201 In addition to the mode setting button, a print execution button, a print cancel button, a plus button, a minus button, a cross key, and the like, and a touch pad 102 having a function as an alternative to a mouse and performing operations such as click and scroll, are arranged. An instruction from the user is input, converted into a digital signal, and transmitted to the CPU 406.

  The display unit 407 is configured as a display device having a screen such as a liquid crystal display element. In this embodiment, the display unit 407 displays HTML data processed by the HTML processing unit 404, various setting states, print status, and error / warning messages. Etc. are displayed. Further, when reproducing image data, Y, U, and V data stored in the frame memory 900 are converted into R, G, and B (three primary color components of red, green, and blue) data, reproduced, and displayed.

  The image processing unit 408 reads the input data, rotates the image and stores it in the band buffer memory, changes the image size to an appropriate size for the printing paper, converts the RGB data to YMC data for printing, and converts it to print data For example, a binarization process is performed.

  As shown in FIG. 8, the program storage memory 403 includes a control program 800, various application programs 801, print image data creation means 803, a utility program 804, and a form processing program for performing software processing of the form processing unit 602. 802 is stored. Note that the print image data creation means 803 includes three components including a rasterizer, a color correction module, and a halftone module, which have the same configuration as a program for print image data creation processing in a personal computer or the like as software processing of the image processing unit 408. Are provided as basic means for obtaining binary data necessary for drawing, and YUV data is printed on CMYK floors for printing K (black), C (cyan), M (magenta), and Y (yellow). Convert to key image data.

  As shown in FIG. 9, the work memory 402 includes a frame memory 900, a print data buffer 901, a spare area 902, a program area 903, and the like. In FIG. 9, a frame memory 900 is used as an image display memory of the display unit 407, and image data is developed as a bitmap image. The frame memory 900 is used as a menu display memory for the display unit 407. The print data buffer 901 is used for temporarily storing print data during printing. The spare area 902 is an empty area, and the size of the area varies depending on the size of the program being executed. The program area 903 stores the control program 800 read from the program storage memory 403 and the program activated at that time, and is executed under the control of the CPU 406.

  The network I / F unit 405 is an interface for connecting a LAN cable 109 as shown in FIG. 1 and communicating HTML data, command signals, and the like.

  The HTML processing unit 404 has an important function in the present invention and has a function as a general browser for processing HTML data received by the network I / F unit 405, which will be described in detail later.

  A controller 409 controls the operation of the entire printer unit 410. When the controller 409 receives the print data (and control data), it sends a control signal to the printer unit to control the print head drive unit 412 and the motor drive unit 411 to perform drawing and paper feed so that a print image ( Color print image).

  The CPU 406 is connected to the above-described circuits and the like via a bus line, controls the entire printing apparatus 100 with the WEB print function by the control program 800 stored in the program storage memory 403, and inputs in this embodiment. In response to the instruction signal from the means 401, execution control of each function of the printing apparatus 100 with the WEB print function is performed.

  Next, an HTML processing unit having an important function in the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 5 shows the internal configuration of an HTML processing unit having an important function in the present invention.
As shown in FIG. 5, the HTML processing unit 404 includes an HTML data reading unit 500, an HTML data analysis unit 501, and a layout analysis unit, which are each connected to the CPU 406 via a bus.

  The HTML data reading means 500 reads the HTML data from the place where the HTML data is stored (in this embodiment, an arbitrary WEB site connected to the Internet via the LAN cable 109) and loads it into the printing apparatus.

  Although details will be described later with reference to FIG. 6, the HTML data analysis unit 501 analyzes the HTML data fetched by the HTML data reading unit 500 and extracts a character string, an image, and the like to be displayed to each drawing element. To divide. The character string is divided every time the font size and type are changed, and each is made into one element. In addition, since the HTML data analyzing unit 501 only indicates the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) in the case of HTML, the HTML data analyzing unit 501 instructs the HTML data reading unit 500 to read the image data based on the URL. The read image is taken as one element. Each drawing element holds its size and drawing position.

  The layout analysis unit 502 arranges the drawing elements obtained by the HTML data analysis unit 501 in accordance with the size of the display area and the size of the elements, and the character string or the like is divided into lines to display the display layout of the WEB site. To construct.

  FIG. 6 shows an internal configuration of the HTML data analysis unit 501 shown in FIG.

  As shown in FIG. 6, the HTML data analysis unit 501 includes a drawing element detection unit 600, a form detection unit 601, a form processing unit 602, and a form print mode setting unit 603, which are connected by a local bus.

  The drawing element detection unit 600 analyzes the HTML data captured by the HTML data reading unit 500 and detects a character string, an image, and the like as drawing elements. The character string is divided every time the font size and type are changed, and each is made into one element. Further, as described above, in the case of HTML, the URL of the image is only indicated, so that the HTML reading means 500 is instructed to read the image data based on the URL, and the read image data is taken as one element. .

  The form detection unit 601 analyzes the HTML data captured by the HTML data reading unit 500 and detects the configuration of the form as a drawing element.

  Although the details will be described later with reference to FIG. 7, the form processing unit 602 processes each component of the form detected by the form detection unit 601 according to the setting state of the form print mode setting unit 603.

  As described in the conventional example shown in FIG. 2, the form print mode setting unit 603 prints only the portion of the document 202 displayed on the form 201 when the form 201 exists on the WEB site 200 to be printed. Mode, a separate page print mode for printing the document displayed on the form 201 on a separate page independently, and a reduced print mode for reducing the document displayed on the form 201 to fit within the form 201 and printing To do.

  FIG. 7 shows the internal configuration of the form processing unit 602 shown in FIG.

  As shown in FIG. 7, the form processing unit 602 includes a form size detection unit 700, a document processing unit 701, a minimum font size setting unit 702, a form display determination unit 703, and a font size conversion table 704, each connected by a local bus. Has been.

  The form size detection unit 700 analyzes a drawing element that becomes a frame of the form 201 from the drawing elements of the form 201 detected by the form detection unit 601, and detects the frame size of the form 201.

  The document processing unit 701 analyzes document data displayed on the form 201 from the drawing elements of the form 201 detected by the form detection unit 601, and determines the mode setting state of the form print mode setting unit 603 and the frame size of the form 201. In response, line breaks in character strings, font size of character strings are detected and changed.

  The minimum font size setting unit 702 sets the minimum font size of the character string changed by the document processing unit 701.

  As shown in FIG. 15, the font size conversion table 704 is a conversion table for converting the font size into a size per character. For example, in a 9-point font size, the size per character (see FIG. 14). ), That is, the height Y is converted to 18 dots and the width X is converted to 16 dots.

  The form display determination unit 703 determines whether all documents are displayed within the frame of the form 201 in which the document processed by the document processing unit 701 is detected by the form size detection unit 700.

  Next, a determination method of the form display determination unit 703 in the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 13 is a diagram for explaining a part of the form 201 in the present embodiment.
First, the form size detection unit 700 detects and stores the height H1303 and width W1302 of the form 201. Next, the font size of the document data detected by the document processing unit 701 is detected, and referring to a font size conversion table 1505 stored in advance as shown in FIG. 15 (however, only some font sizes are shown in the figure). The size per character (see FIG. 14), that is, the height Y1402 and the width X1403 are converted. Next, by dividing the width W1302 of the form by the width X1403 per character, the number of characters C that can be displayed on one line in the form 201, that is, the width W1302, is calculated. There is no example).

  Next, for each element that draws a character string, if the number of characters is greater than or equal to C, line break processing is performed, the number of line breaks R is counted, and the total number of lines L of the entire document is calculated by summing the number of elements that draw the string and the number of line breaks R calculate.

  As described above, it is determined whether the entire document is displayed in the form 201 by comparing the height H1303 of the form 201 with the value LY obtained by multiplying the number of lines L by the height Y1402 per character.

  That is, if LY is smaller than the height H1303 of the form 201, the entire document is displayed in the form 201. If LY is larger than the height H1303 of the form 201, a part of the document (for example, the end of the sentence) is in the form 201. Is determined to be hidden.

  Needless to say, this determination method is an example in the present embodiment and can be realized by various methods.

  Next, the printing operation of the printing apparatus 100 with the WEB print function configured as described above will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 10 to 12 and FIG.

  FIG. 10 shows a part displayed on the form 201 when the form printing mode of the printing apparatus with the WEB print function is present on the WEB site 200 to be printed as described in the conventional example shown in FIG. This is an operation in the normal print mode in which only the document 202 is printed.

  The form printing mode setting method of the printing apparatus 100 with the WEB print function can be easily set by the user by selecting a menu list on the display unit 101 during printing, and will be described with reference to the conventional example shown in FIG. As described above, when the form 201 exists in the WEB site 200 to be printed, the normal print mode in which only the portion of the document 202 displayed on the form 201 is printed, and the document displayed on the form 201 is independent on another page. The setting procedure of the separate page print mode for printing and the reduced print mode for printing the document displayed on the form 201 while reducing the document to fit in the form 201 will be omitted.

  As described in the conventional example shown in FIG. 2, the printing apparatus 100 with the WEB print function prints only the part of the document 202 displayed on the form 201 when the form 201 exists on the WEB site 200 to be printed. When the normal print mode is set and the print execution button is pressed (S1001), the printing apparatus 100 analyzes the HTML data of the displayed WEB site and generates print data (S1002). The generated print data is immediately sent to the printer unit 410, and the printer unit 410 performs printing by driving the various motors 413 and the print head 414 according to the sent print data (S1003), and the process ends ( S1004). When the printing apparatus 100 is set to a normal printing mode in which only the document displayed on the form 201 is printed, printing corresponding to the HTML data displayed on the display unit 101 regardless of whether or not the form is detected. Generate data. That is, as shown in FIG. 2A, when the form 201 exists as a print target, only the document 206 displayed on the form 201 is printed as shown in FIG. Become.

  Next, FIG. 11 and FIG. 11 illustrate operations when the form printing mode of the printing apparatus 100 with the WEB print function is set to another page printing mode in which the document displayed on the form 201 is printed on another page independently. 16 will be described.

  FIG. 11 shows the operation when the user sets the form print mode of the printing apparatus 100 with the WEB print function to the separate page print mode in which the document 202 displayed on the form 201 is printed independently on another page.

  When the print execution button 100 with the WEB print function presses the print execution button (S1101), the displayed HTML data is analyzed, and the form detection unit 601 renders the drawing elements constituting the form 201 in the HTML data to be printed. Is detected (S1102).

  If the drawing element constituting the form 201 is not detected in the HTML data to be printed in step S1102, print data is immediately generated (S1103), and the print data is sent to the printer unit 410. The printer unit 410 performs printing by driving the various motors 413 and the print head 414 in accordance with the received print data (S1104), and ends the printing operation (S1105).

In step S1102, if a drawing element constituting the form 201 is detected in the HTML data to be printed, the last printed page P (S1106) is detected. (However, the final print page P indicates the final page 1603 on the print preview when the form 201 exists on the second page 1602 of all three print preview pages on the WEB site as shown in FIG. 16).
Next, a page for printing the document 202 of the form 201 such as “print on the (P + 1) th sheet” (the fourth page in the print example of FIG. 16) is displayed and set in the form frame of the print preview display (S1107). . Next, print data of the HTML data to be printed (print setting of a message such as “print on P + 1” in the form 201) and print data of the document 202 of the form 201 are generated (S1108). Print data for one page to P + 1 pages is sent to the printer unit 410. The printer unit 410 performs printing by driving the various motors 413 and the print head 414 in accordance with the sent print data (S1109 and S1110), and ends (S1105). The flow from step S1106 to S1110 is referred to as another page printing process flow.

  Note that the print example in FIG. 16 is a case where the form 201 exists on the second page 1602 of all three print preview pages on the WEB site, and “print on the fourth page” is printed on the form 201 on the second page 1602. In this example, the document 202 of the form 201 is printed on the fourth page 1604.

  Next, the operation when the form print mode of the printing apparatus 100 with the WEB print function is set to the reduced print mode in which the document displayed on the form 201 is reduced and printed so as to fit in the form 201 is illustrated. 12 will be described.

  FIG. 12 shows a case where the form print mode of the printing apparatus 100 with the WEB print function is set to a reduced print mode in which the user reduces the document displayed on the form 201 so as to fit in the form 201 and prints it. Is the operation.

  When the printing apparatus 100 with the WEB print function is set to a reduced print mode in which a document displayed on the form 201 is reduced and printed so as to fit in the form 201, the print execution button is pressed (S1201). The generated HTML data is analyzed, and the form detection unit 601 detects whether or not the drawing elements constituting the form 201 exist in the HTML data to be printed (S1202).

  If the form 201 is not detected in the HTML data to be printed in step S1202, print data is immediately generated (S1203), and the print data is sent to the printer unit 410. The printer unit 410 performs printing by driving the various motors 413 and the print head 414 according to the received print data (S1204), and ends the printing operation (S1205).

  On the other hand, when a form is detected in the HTML data to be printed in step S1202, the form size detection unit 700 causes the drawing element to be a frame of the form 201 from the drawing element of the form 201 detected by the form detection unit 601. And the frame size of the form 201 is detected (S1206).

  Next, the document processing unit 701 analyzes document data displayed on the form 201 from the drawing elements of the form 201 detected by the form detection unit 601 (S1207). As described above, in this embodiment, the font size of the character string of the document data is detected, and line feed of the character string is performed according to the frame size of the form 201.

  Next, whether or not all documents are displayed on the form 201 by comparing the frame size of the form 201 detected by the form size detection unit 700 with the number of lines of the document processed by the document processing unit 701 is determined. Determination is made (S1208).

  If it is determined in step S1208 that all documents are displayed in the form 201, print data is generated immediately (S1203), and the print data is sent to the printer unit 410. The printer unit 410 performs printing by driving the various motors 413 and the print head 414 in accordance with the received print data (S1204), and ends the printing operation (S1205).

  On the other hand, if it is determined in step S1208 that all documents are not displayed in the form 201, the form processing unit 602 reduces the font size detected in step S1206 by one size (S1209), and the font size reduced by one size is displayed. It is determined whether the font size is equal to or smaller than a preset minimum font size (S1210).

  If it is at least the minimum font size in step S1210, it is determined again whether the document is displayed in the form 201 (S1211).

  If it is determined in step S1211 that the entire document cannot be displayed on the form 201, the process advances to step S1209.

  If it is determined in step S1211 that the entire document can be displayed on the form 201, print data is immediately generated with the changed font size (S1203), and the print data is sent to the printer unit 410. The printer unit 410 performs printing by driving the various motors 413 and the print head 414 in accordance with the received print data (S1204), and ends the printing operation (S1205).

  That is, the font size of the document 202 in the form 201 is reduced by one size until the entire document is displayed, and is changed to a font size that can display the entire document, and printing of the form 201 portion is executed. In addition, by setting the minimum font size to be changed in advance, it is possible to eliminate the problem that the characters in the print result are too small and difficult to read.

  On the other hand, if it is determined in step S1210 that the font size after the font size change is equal to or smaller than the preset minimum value, the printing apparatus 100 prints the document in the form 201 on another page in the form print mode. The user is prompted to select whether or not to switch to another page print mode (S1212).

  When the user switches the form print mode to another page print mode in which the document in the form 201 is printed on another page in step S1212, the printing apparatus 100 performs another page print processing (S1111) in FIG. 11 (S1213) and prints. The operation is terminated (S1205).

  If the user does not switch the form print mode to another page print mode in which the document in the form is printed on another page in step S1212, the printing apparatus 100 immediately generates print data in the current settings (S1203). ) And send the print data to the printer unit 410. The printer unit 410 performs printing by driving the various motors 413 and the print head 414 in accordance with the received print data (S1204), and ends the printing operation (S1205).

(Other embodiments)
In the above embodiment, one embodiment of the present invention has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, and it goes without saying that various modified embodiments are possible.

  The present invention may be applied to a system composed of a plurality of devices or an apparatus composed of a single device. A medium such as a storage medium storing software program codes for realizing the functions of the above-described embodiments is supplied to a system or apparatus, and a computer (or CPU or MPU) of the system or apparatus is stored in a medium such as a storage medium. It goes without saying that the present invention can also be achieved by reading and executing the program code.

  In this case, the program code itself read from the medium such as a storage medium realizes the functions of the above-described embodiments, and the medium such as the storage medium storing the program code constitutes the present invention. . As a medium such as a storage medium for supplying the program code, for example, a flexible disk, hard disk, optical disk, magneto-optical disk, CD-ROM, CD-R, magnetic tape, nonvolatile memory card, ROM, or network is used. Downloads can be used.

  Further, by executing the program code read out by the computer, not only the functions of the above-described embodiments are realized, but also the OS running on the computer based on the instruction of the program code performs the actual processing. Needless to say, the present invention includes a case where the function of the above-described embodiment is realized by performing part or all of the processing.

  Furthermore, after the program code read from a medium such as a storage medium is written in a memory provided in a function expansion board inserted in the computer or a function expansion unit connected to the computer, based on the instruction of the program code, Needless to say, the present invention includes a case where the CPU or the like provided in the function expansion board or function expansion unit performs part or all of the actual processing and the functions of the above-described embodiments are realized by the processing.

  FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of the form-specific page printing method of the printing apparatus with a WEB print function according to the embodiment of the present invention.

1 is a schematic diagram illustrating an appearance of a printing apparatus with a WEB print function according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is a figure for demonstrating the printing method of the conventional form. It is explanatory drawing of the page printing method according to form of the printing apparatus with a WEB print function which concerns on embodiment of this invention. 1 is a block diagram of a printing apparatus with a WEB print function according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is an internal block diagram of the HTML process part which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is an internal block diagram of the HTML analysis part which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is an internal block diagram of the form process part which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the memory map of the program storage memory which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the memory map of the working memory which concerns on embodiment of this invention. 6 is a flowchart showing an operation in a normal print mode of the printing apparatus with a WEB print function according to the embodiment of the present invention. 6 is a flowchart showing an operation in a different page print mode of the printing apparatus with a WEB print function according to the embodiment of the present invention. 6 is a flowchart showing an operation in a reduced print mode of the printing apparatus with a WEB print function according to the embodiment of the present invention. It is explanatory drawing of the size of the foam which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is explanatory drawing of the magnitude | size of the character which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the font size conversion table which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is an example of printing in another page printing mode of the printing apparatus with a WEB print function according to the embodiment of the present invention.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 Printing apparatus with WEB print function 101 Display unit 102 Touch pad 103 Input button 104 Print execution / stop button 105 Ink cartridge mounting unit 106 LAN cable connection port 107 Paper discharge port 108 Paper discharge tray 109 LAN cable 201 Form 202 Document in form 203 Scroll bar 204 Conventional print result 208,303 Page number 209 WEB site (display)

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  HTML data reading means for connecting to a network and reading HTML data from the HTML data storage destination, and character strings, images, etc. to be displayed are extracted from the HTML data read by the HTML data reading means, and each drawing element is extracted. HTML data analysis means for dividing, layout analysis means for arranging the drawing elements extracted by the HTML data analysis means according to the size of the display area, and constructing a display layout; Among them, form detection means for detecting drawing elements constituting the form, normal printing mode for printing only the portion of the document displayed on the form as the drawing elements constituting the form in the HTML data to be printed, and printing In the target HTML data, the drawing elements that make up the form are A reduced print mode for printing with a reduced font size of the document in the document and another page print mode for printing the document on another page among the drawing elements constituting the form in the HTML data to be printed. A form printing mode setting unit, and when the form is detected by the form detection unit, the HTML data to be printed is printed according to a mode setting state of the form printing mode setting unit. Printing device.   In the HTML data to be printed, the drawing element constituting the form determines whether or not the entire document is printed in the reduced print mode in which the font size of the document in the form is reduced and printed. If the form display determination means, the font size detection means for detecting the font size of the document of the drawing elements constituting the form, and the form display determination means determine that the entire document is not printed in the form, the document A font size changing means for reducing the font size by one size, a font size comparison for defining a minimum font size for the font size and comparing the font size detected by the font size detecting means with the minimum font size Means for determining whether the form display determination means includes a sentence in the form. When all is determined to be printed in the printing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the printing the entire document in said form with the font size.   In the HTML data to be printed, the drawing element constituting the form determines whether or not the entire document is printed in the reduced print mode in which the font size of the document in the form is reduced and printed. If the form display determination means, the font size detection means for detecting the font size of the document of the drawing elements constituting the form, and the form display determination means determine that the entire document is not printed in the form, the document A font size changing means for reducing the font size by one size, a font size comparison for defining a minimum font size for the font size and comparing the font size detected by the font size detecting means with the minimum font size And the font size comparing means includes the font 2. The printing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when the font size detected by the noise detection means is determined to be equal to or smaller than the minimum font size, the mode of the form print mode setting unit is switched to the separate page print mode. .   Print page detection means for detecting a print page of the HTML data to be printed in the separate page print mode in which the document is printed on another page among the drawing elements constituting the form in the HTML data to be printed; In accordance with the print page detected by the print page detecting means, a page on which a document is printed is determined from among the drawing elements constituting the form, and the page on which the document in the form is printed is printed in the form. The printing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the document is printed on a page on which the document is printed.

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