JP2012198613A - Output device, journal generation system, journal generation method and program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable output of a journal with the same content as a receipt without allowing increase in the data volume required for outputting the receipt and journal.SOLUTION: A host 1 generates the output data of a receipt including, as output content, character data indicating the details of a sold commercial product, an image such as a logo, a barcode and the like. The character data indicating the details of an object to be output as a journal has font information indicating the usage of a specific font added when being output. An output device 2 outputs a journal including, as content, only character data having the font information indicating the usage of a specific font, from among the output content included in the output data of the receipt and outputs the receipt including all output content included in the output data of the receipt.

Description

  The present invention relates to an output device, a journal generation system, a journal generation method, and a program.

  A POS (Point Of Sale) printer, which is a device for issuing a receipt, is installed at a cash register such as a store. The POS printer may issue a journal to be used as a form for managing sales and the like at a store at the same time as issuing a receipt to be delivered to a customer. The host instructing the POS printer to issue these items generates receipt print data and journal print data. The POS printer receives the print data for receipt and the print data for journal from the host and prints them. Alternatively, the host generates print data including both receipt print data and journal print data. In this case, the POS printer analyzes the command or predetermined character string described in the print data, divides the print data into a print data portion for receipt and a print data portion for journal, and prints each of them. To do.

  On the other hand, in Patent Document 1, the printing apparatus receives sales specification data and print style information from the host, and the format in which the print command specifies information in the sales specification data specified by the print command in the print style information. According to the printing. Furthermore, the printing apparatus extracts only items determined to be necessary for the electronic journal based on the item name indicated by the tag added to each information in the sales detail data, and generates the electronic journal. Similarly, the printing apparatus extracts only items determined to be necessary for the electronic receipt from the sales detail data based on the item name indicated by the tag, and generates an electronic receipt.

JP 2005-144994 A

  In general, the journal is often the part of the details excluding the store logo, the notice to the customer, and the barcode from the contents of the receipt. However, conventionally, even if the receipt and the journal contain the same details, the host has generated the print data for the receipt and the print data for the journal separately. For this reason, when some trouble occurs in the host, there is a possibility that the details of the details indicated by the print data for receipt and the details of the details indicated by the print data for journal may occur. Even if the host correctly generates print data, a communication error or the like occurs during transmission of the print data, and there is no specification between the print data for receipt received by the POS printer and the print data for journal. There could be a discrepancy in content.

  In Patent Document 1, the host generates sales specification data and print style information and transmits it to the printing apparatus. However, the print style information is used only for printing a receipt. Therefore, in order to cause the printing apparatus to print a journal, it is necessary to further generate journal printing style information, which increases the amount of data between the host and the printing apparatus. Further, when generating an electronic journal, the printing apparatus determines whether or not the item should be used for the electronic journal by using a tag of each information included in the sales detail data. Therefore, the host must generate sales details data with tags added to all information. Therefore, the data amount of sales detailed data becomes large. In addition, when an item that is the subject of an electronic journal or electronic receipt is changed, the setting of the printing apparatus must be changed.

  The present invention has been made in consideration of such circumstances, and can output a journal having contents consistent with the receipt without increasing the amount of data necessary for the output of the receipt and the journal. An apparatus, a journal generation system, a journal generation method, and a program are provided.

  According to one aspect of the present invention, the character output instruction information is associated with output data including data indicating the output contents of a receipt and character output instruction information associated with the data having the output contents of characters. A data analysis unit for identifying the data, a journal output control unit for outputting an output content indicated by the data specified by the data analysis unit, and an output content of a receipt indicated by the data included in the output data An output device comprising a receipt output control unit for outputting.

  One aspect of the present invention is the output device described above, wherein the character output instruction information includes font information, and the character output instruction information associated with the data specified by the data analysis unit. A font information analysis unit that specifies the character output information including the font information indicating a predetermined font that is to be output as a journal, and the journal output control unit includes the font information analysis unit An output content indicated by the data associated with the character output information specified by the section is output.

  One aspect of the present invention is the above-described output device, wherein the font information analysis unit includes the font information indicating a predetermined font corresponding to a control command among the font information included in the character output instruction information. When the font information analysis unit detects and detects the font information indicating the predetermined font corresponding to the control command, the font information analysis unit further includes a control command execution unit that executes the control command.

  One aspect of the present invention is the output device described above, wherein the predetermined font is associated with a font not supported by the output device or the character output information specified by the journal output control unit. It is a font used for the output of the character which is the output content of the said data.

  One aspect of the present invention is a journal generation system including a host device and an output device, wherein the host device generates data indicating the output contents of a receipt, and the data generated by the data generator Of the data, the journal output identification information generation unit for adding character output instruction information, the data generated by the data generation unit, and the journal output identification information generation unit are added to the data whose output content is characters. An output control unit that transmits output data including the character output instruction information to the output device, and the output device associates the character output instruction information with the output data received from the host device. A data analysis unit for identifying the data being output, and a jar for outputting the output content indicated by the data identified by the data analysis unit A null output controller, and a receipt output controller for outputting the output content of the receipt of the data indicates that is included in the output data, a journal generation system characterized by.

  In the journal generation system, the journal output identification information generation unit is a target to be output as a journal to the data whose output content is a character to be output as a journal among the data generated by the data generation unit. The character output instruction information including font information indicating a predetermined font for specifying a certain font is added, and the output device includes the character output instruction information associated with the data specified by the data analysis unit. A font information analysis unit that specifies the character output information including the font information indicating a predetermined font that is to be output as a journal, and the journal output control unit includes the font information analysis unit Indicated by the data associated with the character output information specified by the It outputs an output content to be, may be.

  One aspect of the present invention is a journal generation method executed by an output device, in which a data analysis unit includes data indicating output contents of a receipt, and character output instruction information associated with the data having output contents as characters. A data analysis process for specifying the data associated with the character output instruction information from output data including the output data, and an output content indicated by the data specified by the journal output control unit in the data analysis process A journal output process, and a receipt output process for outputting the output contents of a receipt indicated by the data included in the output data.

  One aspect of the present invention relates to a computer used for an output device, from output data including data indicating the output content of a receipt and character output instruction information associated with the data having a character as output content. A data analysis unit that identifies the data associated with character output instruction information, a journal output control unit that outputs an output content indicated by the data identified by the data analysis unit, and the data included in the output data It is a program characterized by functioning as a receipt output control unit that outputs the output contents of the receipt shown.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to output a journal having contents consistent with the receipt without increasing the amount of data necessary for outputting the receipt and the journal.

It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the journal production | generation system by one Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the output example of the receipt and journal by the same embodiment. It is a figure which shows the example of a description of the output data by the embodiment. It is a figure which shows the example of the font information by the embodiment. It is a figure which shows the processing flow of the host by the embodiment. It is a figure which shows the processing flow of the printer by the embodiment. It is a figure which shows the processing flow of the printer by other embodiment. It is a figure which shows the output example of the receipt and journal by other embodiment.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.
The journal generation system of this embodiment is used at a store cash register. The journal generation system of the present embodiment outputs a receipt based on the contents input by a POS (Point Of Sale) operator such as a clerk in charge of a cash register, and outputs a part of the contents of the receipt as a journal. In general, the content necessary for a journal is a part of the details included in the receipt, and the details are usually represented by character data. In order to output character data, a font (hereinafter referred to as “device font”) mounted on an output device (printer) is used. The output device identifies a device font used for outputting the character data based on the font information added to the character data. Therefore, when the journal generation system according to the present embodiment generates output data for outputting a receipt to the output device, character data indicating details that are output contents necessary for the journal among data indicating the output contents of the receipt. In addition, font information indicating that a specific device font is used is added. As a result, the output device can extract the character data that is the subject of the journal from the output data of the receipt using the font information. Therefore, the journal generation system can perform not only the receipt output but also the journal output only with the receipt output data.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a journal generation system according to an embodiment of the present invention, in which only functional blocks related to the present embodiment are extracted and shown. The journal generation system according to this embodiment includes a host 1 that generates receipt output data, and an output device 2 that outputs a receipt based on the receipt output data, and generates and outputs a journal.

  The host 1 is, for example, a device constituting a part of the POS system or a device connected to the POS system, and includes an operator operation unit 11, a data analysis unit 12, a detailed data generation unit 13, and a journal output identification information generation unit. 14, a receipt additional information generation unit 15, a receipt command generation unit 16, and an output control unit 17.

The operator operation unit 11 receives data input by the operation of the POS operator.
The data analysis unit 12 analyzes data input by the operator operation unit 11 (hereinafter referred to as “input data”) and acquires data necessary for the specification. The data necessary for the specification is, for example, input data, data generated using the input data, data read from a memory in the host 1 (not shown) or other devices connected to the host 1 using the input data as a key, etc. is there.
The detail data generation unit 13 generates detail data from the data acquired by the data analysis unit 12. The detail data is character data, and includes, for example, a product name, a product price, and the number of products sold.

The journal output identification information generation unit 14 adds specific font information to the detail data of the part to be journal output among the detail data generated by the detail data generation unit 13. The specific font information indicates a device font (hereinafter referred to as “specific font”) for specifying a journal output target. The device font is specified by the type of font size, font name, character decoration (underline, bold, italic, etc.), for example. The specific font may be one type of device font or a combination of a plurality of types of device fonts.
The receipt additional information generation unit 15 reads or generates output content data indicating output content necessary for the receipt in addition to the detailed data from a memory (not shown). The output content required only for the receipt is, for example, a store logo or a barcode.

  The receipt command generation unit 16 prints the print command for printing the character data indicated by the detailed data generated by the detailed data generation unit 13 and the output content indicated by the output content data generated or acquired by the receipt additional information generation unit 15 Generate a command. Font information indicating a device font used for printing character data is added to a print command for printing character data. The receipt command generation unit 16 sets the specific font indicated by the specific font information in the font information for the detailed data to which the specific font information is added. Further, the receipt command generation unit 16 sets a device font different from the specific font in the font information for the detailed data to which the specific font information is not added. The receipt command generator 16 arranges the generated print commands in the order of execution and generates receipt output data. The output data can include a control command in addition to the print command. The control command is a command for causing the output device 2 to execute a predetermined operation, and includes, for example, a command for instructing cutting of the roll paper that has been printed.

  The output control unit 17 transmits the output data generated by the receipt command generation unit 16 to the output device 2.

  The output device 2 (device) is a printer and is connected to a journal output device 4 that prints a journal. The output device 2 includes a storage unit 20, an input control unit 21, a data accumulation control unit 22, a data analysis unit 23, a font information analysis unit 24, a designated font determination unit 25, a journal image conversion unit 26, a journal output control unit 27, A receipt image conversion unit 28, a receipt output control unit 29, a receipt output device 30, and a control command execution unit 31 are configured.

  The storage unit 20 is a memory that stores various data such as output data. The input control unit 21 receives output data transmitted by the host 1. The data accumulation control unit 22 stores the output data received by the input control unit 21 in the storage unit 20.

  The data analysis unit 23 extracts commands included in the output data stored in the storage unit 20 and analyzes the types of commands. If the extracted command is a control command, the data analysis unit 23 outputs the control command to the control command execution unit 31.

  The font information analysis unit 24 extracts font information from the command that the data analysis unit 23 determines to be a character data print command, and determines whether the device font indicated by the font information is a specific font.

  The designated font determination unit 25 outputs a print command to the journal image conversion unit 26 and the receipt image conversion unit 28 when the font information analysis unit 24 determines that the device font indicated by the font information is a specific font. To do. Also, when the font information analysis unit 24 determines that the device font indicated by the font information is different from the specific font, the data analysis unit 23 determines that the print command is for printing data other than character data. The command is output only to the receipt image conversion unit 28.

The journal image conversion unit 26 generates image data from the print command of the character data input from the designated font determination unit 25. By this conversion, journal image data is generated. The image data is, for example, data that represents print contents in dot units.
The journal output control unit 27 outputs the image data generated by the journal image conversion unit 26 to the journal output device 4.

The receipt image conversion unit 28 generates image data from the print command input from the data analysis unit 23 and the print command input from the designated font determination unit 25. With this conversion, receipt image data is generated.
The receipt output control unit 29 outputs the image data generated by the command image conversion unit 28 to the receipt output device 30 to execute printing.
The receipt output device 30 performs printing on paper according to the image data.
The control command execution unit 31 executes the control command input from the data analysis unit 23.

  In the above description, the receipt output device 30 is provided in the output device 2, but a printer connected to the output device 2 may be used as the receipt output device 30.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of output of a receipt and a journal.
The output content of the receipt shown in the figure consists of a logo, details a, details b and details c. The details a include information such as a receipt number, date and time, the ID of the sold product, the name of the product, the unit price of the product, the sales quantity, the discount rate, and the total for each product. The details b include information such as the amount discounted by using points, the total amount of payment, the payment method and the amount paid by the payment method. The statement c includes the accumulated points held by the purchaser, notifications from the store, and the like. On the other hand, the output contents of the journal are only the details a among the output contents of the receipt.
In this case, the host 1 sets the device font α, which is a specific font, in the font information added to the character data of the details a. Further, the host 1 sets a device font β different from the specific font in the font information added to the character data of the detail b, and a device font different from the specific font in the font information added to the character data of the detail c. Set γ.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a description example of output data.
As shown in the figure, a print command for printing a logo is described by a combination of an image print command and image data to be printed. Alternatively, when the image data stored in the storage unit 20 of the output device 2 is read and printed, it is described by a registered image print command.
A print command for printing detailed data is described by a combination of a character print designation command (character output instruction information) and character data. The character print designation command includes font information. The character print command is expressed as “1BH, 21H, n” (H indicates a hexadecimal number), and the portion of n is font information. Detailed data is set in the character data.
Note that image data and barcodes can also be printed after the description. Image data printing is described by a combination of an image print command and image data, or a registered image print command, as in the case of logo data printing described above. Bar code printing is described by a bar code print command.

FIG. 4 shows an example of font information.
As shown in the figure, the font information is composed of 8 bits, and each bit corresponds to each type of font. For example, as shown in FIG. 3, the print command for the detail a is described by a combination of a character print designation command “1BH, 21H, 09H” and character data indicating the content of the detail a, and the font information is “09H”. It is. In the font information “09H”, the setting values of the 0th and 3rd bits are “1”, and the setting values of the 1st, 2nd, 4th to 7th bits are “0”. Show. That is, the device font α (specific font) is a combination of font B and emphasis printing. On the other hand, the font information of the character print designation command for instructing printing of the details b is “00H”, which indicates a combination of designation of font B and no designation of modification.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a processing flow of the host 1.
When the operator operation unit 11 of the host 1 receives an input from the POS operator, the data analysis unit 12 acquires data necessary for the details based on the input data input by the operator operation unit 11. For example, the input data is an ID of a sold product, its sales quantity, a customer ID, a payment method, and an amount paid by the payment method. The data analysis unit 12 reads the product name, unit price, and discount rate from a POS system (not shown) connected to the host 1 as information for generating the details a, and the product from the unit price, sales quantity, and discount rate of the product. Calculate the purchase price for each. In addition, the data analysis unit 12 generates a slip number and acquires the current time. Further, the data analysis unit 12 acquires information for generating the details b and details c. The detail data generation unit 13 generates character data constituting the detail data in units of one line based on the information acquired by the data analysis unit 12 (step S105).

  The journal output identification information generation unit 14 sequentially selects the character data generated by the detail data generation unit 13 (step S110). When it is determined that the selected character data is included in the detailed data to be output from the journal (step S115: YES), the journal output identification information generation unit 14 still adds the specific font information to the character data (step S120) and still It is determined whether there is unselected character data (step S125). On the other hand, when it is determined that the selected character data is not included in the detailed data to be journal output (step S115: NO), the journal output identification information generation unit 14 does not add the information for designating the font, but still It is determined whether there is unselected character data (step S125).

  In step S125, when the journal output identification information generation unit 14 determines that there is character data that has not been selected (step S125: NO), the journal output identification information generation unit 14 performs processing from step S110 for selecting the next character data. If it is determined that character data has been specified (step S125: YES), the process of step S130 is performed.

  The receipt additional information generation part 15 acquires the output content data which shows the output content required for a receipt other than a detail. For example, the receipt additional information generation unit 15 reads out a store logo from a memory (not shown) included in the host 1 as output content data, or generates content to be output as a barcode. The receipt command generating unit 16 generates a print command from the detailed data generated by the detailed data generating unit 13 and the output content data acquired by the receipt additional information generating unit 15 (step S130).

For the detailed data to which the specific font information is added, the receipt command generation unit 16 generates a print command by a character print designation command including font information in which the specific font indicated by the specific font information is set. Further, the receipt command generation unit 16 generates a print command for the detailed data to which the specific font information is not added by a character print designation command including font information in which a device font different from the specific font is set. Further, the receipt command generation unit 16 generates print commands such as an image print command, a registered image print command, and a barcode print command in accordance with the output content indicated by the output content data. The receipt command generation unit 16 arranges the print command for the detail data and the print command for the output content other than the detail in the order of execution according to the format of the detail, and generates the output data of the receipt (step S135).
The output control unit 17 outputs the output data generated by the receipt command generation unit 16 to the output device 2 (step S140).

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a processing flow of the output device 2.
When the input control unit 21 of the output device 2 receives the output data output from the host 1, the data accumulation control unit 22 stores the output data in the storage unit 20 (step S205). The data analysis unit 23 reads a command included in the output data stored in the storage unit 20 (step S210). Since the commands are described in the output data in the order of execution, the data analysis unit 23 reads the command with the earliest execution order among the commands that have not been read yet.

  The data analysis unit 23 interprets the type of the read command and shifts the journal image conversion unit 26 and the receipt image conversion unit 28 to a mode corresponding to the command type (step S215). For example, if the command is an image data print command, the receipt image conversion unit 28 is set to the image data print mode until the end of printing the image data. If the command is a character data print command, the journal image conversion unit 26 is used. The receipt image conversion unit 28 is set to the character print mode. The data analysis unit 23 outputs the control command to the command execution unit 31 when the command is a control command. The control command execution unit 31 performs various controls according to the control command input from the data analysis unit 23.

  When it is determined that the journal image conversion unit 26 and the receipt image conversion unit 28 are currently in the character print mode (step S220: YES), the font information analysis unit 24 reads the print command read by the data analysis unit 23 in step S210. Extract font information from. The font information analysis unit 24 determines whether or not the extracted font information indicates a specific font (for example, device font α) (step S225).

  When the font information analysis unit 24 determines that the font information indicates a specific font (step S225: YES), the designated font determination unit 25 converts the print command read in step S210 into a journal image conversion unit. 26. The journal image conversion unit 26 generates image data for printing the character data specified by the print command, using the device font indicated by the font information included in the print command. The journal image conversion unit 26 outputs the generated image data to the journal output device 4, and the journal output device 4 performs printing according to the image data (step S230).

  In step S220, when the font information analysis unit 24 determines that the journal image conversion unit 26 is not in the character print mode (step S220: NO), in step S225, the font information analysis unit 24 determines that the font information is a specific font. If it is determined that it does not indicate (step S225: NO), or after the processing of step S230, the designated font determination unit 25 outputs the print command read in step S210 to the receipt image conversion unit 28. (Step S235).

  When the receipt image conversion unit 28 is currently in the character print mode, the receipt image conversion unit 28 uses the device font indicated by the font information of the print command input from the specified font determination unit 25 to print the character data specified by the print command. Generate image data. The receipt output control unit 29 causes the receipt output device 30 to print a receipt according to the image data generated by the receipt image conversion unit 28. On the other hand, if the current print mode is not the print mode and the print command is image printing, the receipt image conversion unit 28 outputs the image data specified by the print command to the receipt output control unit 29, and the receipt output control unit 29. Causes the receipt output device 30 to print the receipt according to the image data. Further, when the print command is a barcode print command, the receipt output control unit 29 generates image data for printing the information specified by the print command with the barcode, and outputs the image data to the receipt output control unit 29. The receipt output control unit 29 causes the receipt output device 30 to print a receipt according to the image data (step S235).

  If there is a command that has not yet been read in the output data (step S240: present), the data analysis unit 23 repeats the processing from step S210 and determines that all the commands included in the output data have been read (step S240: None), the process ends.

  In the above description, the output device 2 prints a receipt and the journal output device 4 prints a journal. However, the output device 2 may also print a journal.

  FIG. 7 shows a processing flow when printing a receipt and a journal in the output device 2. In the figure, the same processes as those shown in FIG. Below, the difference with the process shown in FIG. 6 is demonstrated.

  In step S225, when the font information analysis unit 24 determines that the font information indicates a specific font (step S225: YES), the print command read in step S210 is written in the storage unit 20 (step S305). . After the process of step S305, the output device 2 performs the process from step S235.

  If it is determined in step S240 that the data analysis unit 23 has read all the commands included in the output data (step S240: none), the journal image conversion unit 26 is written in the storage unit 20 in step S305. Read print commands in order. The journal image conversion unit 26 generates image data for printing the character data specified by the print command, using the device font indicated by the font information included in the read print command. The journal output control unit 27 causes the receipt output device 30 to print the journal according to the image data generated by the journal image conversion unit 26 (step S310).

In the above embodiment, the case where the target to be output as a journal is a part of the character data included in the receipt data has been described. That is, in the above embodiment, when the font information added to the character data indicates a specific font, the printer uses the character data for both receipt output and journal output, and the font information is different from the predetermined font. When a font is indicated, the character data is used only for receipt output.
However, the object to be output as a journal may be all character data excluding images such as store logos and advertisements and barcodes from the receipt data.

FIG. 8 shows a receipt and an output image of the journal when the target of the journal is all character data.
As shown in the figure, the output content of the receipt includes a logo portion printed by the image print command, a specification portion printed by the character data print command, and a barcode printed by the barcode print command. It consists of parts.
If the font information is added to the print command, that is, if the print command prints character data, the data analysis unit 23 determines that it is a target to be output as a journal and outputs it to the command image conversion unit 26. To do. The journal image conversion unit 26 generates image data from the print command input from the data analysis unit 23. In this case, an arbitrary device font can be set in the font information.
On the other hand, the receipt image conversion unit 28 of the output device 2 acquires or generates image data according to all print commands in the output data. As a result, the receipt output device 30 prints a receipt including character data and a barcode.

  Note that the journal image conversion unit 26 may generate an electronic journal from detailed data (character data) included in the print command instead of generating image data from the print command. The electronic journal is, for example, data representing a journal in a format that can be displayed by a computer, such as image data, or data representing a data format that can be used by calculation software that uses the journal for form management. In this case, the journal output control unit 27 writes the electronic journal data generated by the journal image conversion unit 26 in the storage unit 20 or a storage device connected to the output device 2.

  Further, the journal image conversion unit 26 may generate both image data and an electronic journal from a print command. The journal image conversion unit 26 outputs the generated image data to the journal output device 4 and writes the electronic journal to the storage unit 20 or the storage device connected to the output device 2.

  In addition, the receipt image conversion unit 28 may generate an electronic receipt from a print command instead of or in addition to the image data. The electronic receipt is, for example, data representing a receipt in a format that can be displayed by a computer, such as image data, or data representing a receipt in a data format that can be used by calculation software. The receipt image conversion unit 28 writes the generated electronic receipt in the storage unit 20 or a storage device connected to the output device 2.

  When the font information analysis unit 24 of the output device 2 determines that the font information included in the print command for printing the character data indicates a specific font, a control command determined in advance corresponding to the specific font For example, the control command may be converted into a control command for instructing opening of the cash drawer of the register, and the converted control code may be output to the control command execution unit 31. The control command execution unit 31 executes the control command converted by the font information analysis unit 24.

  The specific font may be a device font that is not supported by the output device 2. In this case, the output device 2 causes the detailed data to be printed using only supported device fonts among the device fonts indicated by the font information. By setting a device font that is not supported by the output device 2 to be a device font that is to be output as a journal, details (character data) to be output as a journal without affecting the characters printed as a receipt. Can be specified. Alternatively, a combination of device fonts partially including device fonts not supported by the output device 2 is used as a specific font, so that the character data to be output as a journal is the same as the character data that is not the target of the journal. Can be printed by device font.

According to the above-described embodiment, the host generates only the receipt output data, and the output device (printer) extracts the character data to be output (printed) as a journal from the output data according to the font information. Therefore, the host can generate not only the receipt output but also the journal output only by generating the receipt output data. Therefore, there is no possibility of a mismatch between the contents of the receipt and the journal due to an error on the host side or an error during data communication, and the amount of data transmitted from the host to the output device is reduced. Also, even if the target to be output as a journal is changed, it is not necessary to change the setting of the output device.
It is also possible to cause the printer to execute a predetermined control command using font information added to the character data.

  The data analysis unit 12, detailed data generation unit 13, journal output identification information generation unit 14, receipt additional information generation unit 15, receipt command generation unit 16 and output control unit 17 of the host 1, and data storage of the output device 2 The control unit 22, the data analysis unit 23, the font information analysis unit 24, the designated font determination unit 25, the journal image conversion unit 26, the journal output control unit 27, the receipt image conversion unit 28, and the receipt output control unit 29 are a memory and a CPU ( Central processing unit). The data analysis unit 12, detailed data generation unit 13, journal output identification information generation unit 14, receipt additional information generation unit 15, receipt command generation unit 16, and data accumulation control unit 22 of the output device 2 are described above. , A data analysis unit 23, a font information analysis unit 24, a designated font determination unit 25, a journal image conversion unit 26, and a program (not shown) for realizing the processing steps of the receipt image conversion unit 28 are recorded. It is assumed that the function is realized by loading the memory from a non-volatile memory, a magnetic disk or the like and executing it.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Host 11 ... Operator operation part 12 ... Data analysis part 13 ... Detail data generation part (data generation part)
14 ... Journal output identification information generation unit 15 ... Receipt additional information generation unit (data generation unit)
16 ... Receipt command generation unit 17 ... Output control unit 2 ... Output device 20 ... Storage unit 21 ... Input control unit 22 ... Data accumulation control unit 23 ... Data analysis unit 24 ... Font information analysis unit 25 ... Designated font determination unit 26 ... Journal Image conversion unit 27 ... journal output control unit 28 ... receipt image conversion unit 29 ... receipt output control unit 30 ... receipt output device 31 ... control command execution unit 4 ... journal output device

Claims (7)

The data associated with the character output instruction information is identified from output data including data indicating the output contents of the receipt and character output instruction information associated with the data having the output contents of characters. A data analysis unit;
A journal output control unit that outputs an output content indicated by the data specified by the data analysis unit;
A receipt output control unit for outputting the output content of the receipt indicated by the data included in the output data;
An output device comprising: The character output instruction information includes font information,
Among the character output instruction information associated with the data specified by the data analysis unit, the character output information including the font information indicating a predetermined font that specifies a target to be output as a journal. A font information analysis unit for identifying
The journal output control unit outputs an output content indicated by the data associated with the character output information specified by the font information analysis unit;
The output device according to claim 1. The font information analysis unit detects the font information indicating a predetermined font corresponding to a control command from the font information included in the character output instruction information;
A control command execution unit for executing the control command when the font information analysis unit detects the font information indicating the predetermined font corresponding to the control command;
The output device according to claim 2. The predetermined font is used to output a font that is not supported by the output device or a character that is an output content of the data associated with the character output information specified by the journal output control unit. Is a font,
The output device according to claim 2 or claim 3, wherein A journal generation system comprising a host device and an output device,
The host device is
A data generation unit for generating data indicating the output contents of the receipt;
Among the data generated by the data generation unit, a journal output identification information generation unit that adds character output instruction information to the data that includes characters as output contents;
An output control unit for transmitting output data including the data generated by the data generation unit and the character output instruction information added by the journal output identification information generation unit to the output device;
With
The output device is
A data analysis unit that identifies the data associated with the character output instruction information from the output data received from the host device;
A journal output control unit that outputs an output content indicated by the data specified by the data analysis unit;
A receipt output control unit for outputting the output content of the receipt indicated by the data included in the output data;
Comprising
A journal generation system characterized by that. A journal generation method executed by an output device,
The data analysis unit associates the character output instruction information from output data including data indicating the output contents of the receipt and character output instruction information associated with the data having the output contents of characters. A data analysis process for identifying the data;
A journal output control unit that outputs an output content indicated by the data identified in the data analysis process;
A receipt output process for outputting the output content of the receipt indicated by the data included in the output data;
A journal generation method characterized by comprising: The computer used for the output device
The data associated with the character output instruction information is identified from output data including data indicating the output contents of the receipt and character output instruction information associated with the data having the output contents of characters. Data analysis department,
A journal output control unit that outputs the output content indicated by the data specified by the data analysis unit;
A receipt output control unit for outputting the output content of the receipt indicated by the data included in the output data;
A program characterized by functioning as

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