JP2009113282A - Printer and printing method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a printer and a printing method preventing a reading direction from becoming upside down in the printer for printing print data to be read from an original platen on the surface of printing paper. <P>SOLUTION: The printer for printing the print data to be read from the original platen on the surface of printing paper includes a mark printing means for printing a mark for adjusting a reading reference position given to the original platen to the reading direction of the printing paper, on the back face of the printing paper. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

The present invention relates to a printing apparatus, and more particularly to a printing apparatus that includes a document reading mechanism and can print marks on the back surface of printing paper.

  A conventional printing apparatus is provided with an apparatus that reads a given mark information and performs various controls based on the read information. As such an apparatus, there is known an apparatus that reads mark information on a printing paper and controls data to be printed so as to fit on the printing paper (for example, see Patent Document 1).

Further, as an apparatus for providing a mark on the back side of printing paper, an apparatus for providing a mark on the back side in order to automatically indicate a misprinted side on the back side is known (see, for example, Patent Document 2).
JP-A-9-183427 (page 9, FIG. 5) JP 2002-59606 A (page 8, FIG. 5)

  In the conventional document reading apparatus, the reading reference position given to the document table is not necessarily a fixed position. Therefore, in the above-described conventional example, the reading reference position given to the document table and the reading direction of the printing paper when the printing paper is the back side are not clear.

  Therefore, the conventional example has a problem that the reading direction may be upside down.

An object of the present invention is to provide a printing apparatus and a printing method in which the reading direction is not upside down.

The present invention relates to a printing apparatus for printing print data to be read from a platen on the surface of a print sheet, and a mark for matching a read reference position given to the platen with a reading direction of the print sheet Is a printing apparatus having mark printing means for printing on the back side of the printing paper.

According to the present invention, the control unit that prints a mark for aligning the reading direction of the printing paper on the back side of the printing paper clearly defines the reading reference position given to the document table and the position on the back side of the printing paper. To. Therefore, according to the present invention, there is an effect that the reading direction is not turned upside down, the user's erroneous operation is reduced, and the reading direction is turned upside down.

  The best mode for carrying out the invention is the following embodiment.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating the center of a control portion of a printing apparatus PR1 that is Embodiment 1 of the present invention.

  The printing apparatus PR1 includes a CPU 1, a ROM 2, a RAM 3, a CR control unit 4, an LF control unit 5, a double-sided printing control unit 6, a head control unit 7, a print control unit 8, and a data analysis unit 9. And a print buffer control unit 10. In addition, the printing apparatus PR 1 includes a host I / F unit 11, an image reading control unit 12, and a system bus 13.

  The CPU 1 is a central processing unit and is built in the ROM 2 and controls the entire printing apparatus PR1 in accordance with, for example, a control procedure program shown in the flowchart shown in FIG.

  The RAM 3 is used as a work area of the CPU 1 and a memory area for storing data received by the host I / F unit 11 or a memory area for storing print data.

  The CR control unit 4 performs drive control of the carriage motor. The LF control unit 5 performs drive control of the line feed motor. The duplex printing control unit 6 performs drive control of the duplex printing mechanism. The head control unit 7 is electrically connected to the recording head, senses the temperature of the head with a temperature sensor, and performs drive control of the recording head when performing appropriate temperature control with a heater or the like.

  The print control unit 8 controls each control unit of the CR control unit 4, the LF control unit 5, the head control unit 7, and the duplex printing control unit 6 based on print data sent from each control unit. Perform an order.

  The data analysis unit 9 analyzes the data received by the host I / F unit 11 and sends it to the print control unit 8 or the print buffer control unit 10. The print buffer control unit 10 controls the size and quantity of the memory area for storing the print data on the RAM 3 from the data analyzed by the data analysis unit 9.

  The host I / F unit 11 receives data received from a host computer or the like. The data analysis unit 9 analyzes the data received by the host I / F unit 11 and sends it to the print control unit 8.

  The image reading control unit 12 optically reads an image and stores the read data on the RAM 3. The system bus 13 is a bus that connects the above-described components to the CPU 1.

  The CPU 1 and the print control unit 8 are examples of mark printing means for printing a mark for matching the reading reference position given to the document table with the reading direction of the printing paper on the back side of the printing paper.

  Next, an operation of printing a mark for matching the reading reference position given to the document table of the printing apparatus PR1 and the reading direction of the printing paper will be described.

  FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an operation in the printing apparatus PR1, in which the print density of the mark is lowered and printed on the back side of the printing paper, and the print data for reading from the platen of the printing paper is discharged upward. It is.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a state in which a mark for aligning the reading direction of the printing paper 20 output from the printing apparatus PR1 is aligned with the reading reference position P1 provided on the document table.

  An original reading reference position P1 is provided on the scanner 14, and a mark M1 for adjusting the reading direction of the printing paper 20 is provided.

  The flowchart shown in FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an operation of printing the document reading reference position P1 given to the printing image document table of the printing apparatus PR1 and the mark M1 for aligning the reading direction of the printing paper 20. . At this time, the print density of the mark M1 is set lower than the print density on the front surface and printed on the back surface of the print paper 20, and the print data for reading from the document table of the print paper 20 is discharged upward.

  A program corresponding to the flowchart shown in FIG. 2 is stored in the ROM 2, and the CPU 1 executes this program.

  First, in S <b> 1, the print control unit 8 determines whether or not it is a mode for printing the mark M <b> 1 for aligning the reading direction of the printing paper 20 on the back surface of the printing paper 20. If the result of determination in S1 is that the mode is for printing the mark M1, a paper feed operation is performed in S2. In S3, a mark M1 for matching the original reading reference position P1 given to the original table and the reading direction of the printing paper 20 is stored on the RAM 3 as data having a low printing density. In S4, the data stored on the RAM 3 in S3 is printed.

  In S <b> 5, the duplex printing control unit 6 performs a paper feeding operation after inverting the front and back of the printing paper 20. In S <b> 6, the print control unit 8 generates and prints data on the surface (Omenen) to be read on the RAM 3. In S7, the paper is discharged and the operation is terminated.

  As a result of the determination in S1, if it is determined that the mode is not the mode for printing the mark M1, a normal paper feeding operation is performed in S8. In step S9, normal printing is performed. In step S10, the paper is discharged, and the operation ends.

  According to the above embodiment, the mark M1 for aligning the reading direction of the printing paper 20 is printed on the back surface of the printing paper 20. Therefore, when the printing paper 20 is placed on the back surface during document reading, the mark M1 is aligned in any direction. It becomes clear. As a result, erroneous operations by the user can be reduced, and the reading direction can be reduced from being upside down. The above embodiment can be applied to a recording apparatus having a document reading mechanism.

  Although the above embodiment is an ink jet type printer apparatus, the above embodiment can be applied to a printing apparatus that employs another recording system.

  In other words, in the above-described embodiment, the control unit that prints the mark M1 for aligning the reading direction of the printing paper 20 on the back surface of the printing paper 20 includes Clarify which position on the back to match. Therefore, according to the above-described embodiment, the reading direction is not upside down, the user's erroneous operation can be reduced, and the reading direction can be reduced from being upside down.

  Further, according to the embodiment, the mark M1 for aligning the reading direction of the printing paper 20 is printed first, and the printing data for reading from the document table to be printed on the front surface of the printing paper 20 is obtained. Then print. Therefore, according to the above-described embodiment, the print data for reading from the document table of the printing paper 20 is ejected upward, so that the user intended to print the print data for reading from the document table can be used. It can be confirmed that the intended data is printed.

  Furthermore, according to the embodiment, in the printing apparatus, the printing density of the mark M1 for matching the reading direction printed on the back surface of the printing paper 20 is made lower than the printing density of the front surface. Therefore, according to the above-described embodiment, the show-through to the surface (Otemen) can be reduced. In addition, since the surface on which the mark M1 for aligning the reading direction of the printing paper 20 is printed with a lower density, the drying waiting time for front surface printing is minimized. it can.

Moreover, in the above-described embodiment, in the printing apparatus, guidance for urging the user to align with the document reading reference position P1 on the document table is printed together with the mark M1 for aligning the reading direction of the printing paper 20. Therefore, according to the above-described embodiment, it is clear which direction the reading direction of the printing paper 20 should be aligned with even a device that cannot express the content of the guidance only by the display unit. This can reduce the reading direction from being reversed upside down.

FIG. 3 is a block configuration diagram illustrating the center of a control portion of the printing apparatus PR1 that is Embodiment 1 of the present invention. 6 is a flowchart illustrating an operation in the printing apparatus PR1 in which the printing density of the mark M1 is reduced and printed on the back surface of the printing paper 20 and print data for reading from the document table of the printing paper 20 is discharged in an upward state. . FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a state in which a mark M1 for aligning the reading direction of the printing paper 20 output by the printing apparatus PR1 is aligned with a document reading reference position P1 provided on a document table.

Explanation of symbols

PR1 ... Printing device,
1 ... CPU,
2 ... ROM,
3 ... RAM,
4 ... CR control unit,
5 ... LF control unit,
6 ... Double-sided printing control unit,
7: Head controller,
8: Print control unit,
9: Data analysis section,
10: Print buffer controller,
11: Host I / F section,
12: Image reading control unit,
13 ... System bus,
14 ... Scanner,
20 ... printing paper,
P1: Document reading reference position,
M1... A mark for aligning the reading direction of the printing paper 20.

Claims (5)

A printing apparatus that prints print data to be read from a platen on the surface of a printing paper,
A printing apparatus comprising mark printing means for printing a mark for matching a reading reference position provided on an original platen and a reading direction of a printing paper on a back surface of the printing paper. In claim 1,
A printing apparatus comprising: a paper discharge unit that discharges print data to be read from a platen of print paper upward. In claim 2,
The printing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the mark printing means is means for making a printing density of the mark lower than a printing density of the surface. In claim 1,
The mark printing means is means for printing guidance for urging to match the reading reference position provided on the platen with the reading direction of the printing paper together with a mark for matching the reading direction of the printing paper. A printing apparatus characterized by the above. A printing method for printing print data to be read from a platen on the surface of a printing paper,
A printing method comprising: a mark printing step in which a mark printing unit prints a mark for aligning a reading reference position given to a document table with a reading direction of a printing paper on a back surface of the printing paper. .

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