JP2526818B2 - Printer - Google Patents

Description

Description: TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a printing device for printing character data such as a sentence created by a key input operation on a recording paper.

[Prior Art and its Problems] Conventionally, a typewriter, a word processor, and the like have been widely used as a device for creating a text or the like by key input and printing it to obtain a document. In this type of typewriter or word processor, half-width characters, double-width characters, and other sizes are specified for each input character.

However, in the document creation device as described above,
For example, when all input characters are set to have the same size such as double-width, it is necessary to set for each character, which makes the operation troublesome. This becomes particularly noticeable when the magnification is corrected after printing is performed once.

[Object of the Invention] The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and is a printing method capable of collectively setting and printing the character sizes of all input character data by a simple key operation. The purpose is to provide a device.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention first sets a print magnification for each of a plurality of print data, prints, and then prints a print magnification obtained by multiplying a print magnification set for each print data by a common magnification. By setting and printing all at once, after printing each print data with an arbitrary print magnification set individually, each print magnification of all print data set individually with that arbitrary print magnification On the other hand, a common magnification is further multiplied to set a collective print magnification so that all the print data can be printed at the collectively set print magnification. For this reason, it is possible to obtain print data having sizes similar to each other between the print data printed twice.

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows an external structure of a printing apparatus embodying the present invention. The apparatus main body 10 has a size that can be sufficiently held by a user's hand. First, a mode changeover switch 11 is provided on the left side surface of the device body 10. This mode switch 11 is used to turn the power on and off, and to switch between word processing mode (document creation mode) WP and print mode (printing mode) PR. When the word processing mode WP or print mode PR is specified, the power supply is switched. Is turned on.
On the other hand, on the front surface of the device body 10, the key input unit 12 and the display unit
13 are provided. In the key input unit 12, a character / symbol input key 14, a function key 15, a cursor key 16, a kana / kanji conversion key 17, a next candidate key 18, kanji selection keys 19a to 19f, and a print key 20 are arranged. Here, the display unit 13 displays, for example, all 12 characters in upper and lower two lines. Further, on the lower surface of the apparatus main body 10, for example, a line-type thermal head having 48 dots per line, and a print head portion HA provided with the line direction thereof facing the width direction of the apparatus main body 10 are provided.

The above-mentioned character / symbol input key 14 is for inputting kana of the created document,
Or it is used to input alphanumeric characters and symbols in combination with the function key 15, and the function key 15
Start / end of document input or move by cursor k on the document Starting with the execution key 15a that delimits the specified range, the partial magnification key 15b that specifies the print magnification in character units, and the all specify the print magnification of the entire document at once Double key 15c, Insert key 1
Keys such as 5d, a delete key 15e, and a shift key 15f are arranged for designating various functions required for document creation / printing by the character / symbol input key 14. The characters and symbols input by the character / symbol input keys 14 and the function keys 15 are sequentially displayed on the display unit 13. Cursor key 16 is
The cursor k displayed together with the input document or the symbol on the display unit 13 is moved in the left-right direction. The movement of the cursor specifies the input position, the functional range, and the like. Kana / Kanji conversion key 17 is the above character / symbol input key
It is used to convert the created document input by Kana into kana to kanji for each fixed phrase, idiom, and single kanji. At this time, the kanji of the conversion destination is specified on the display unit 13 together with the converted kana document. A number is displayed, and by operating the next candidate key 18, many other homonyms are displayed in turn. When the kanji to be converted by this kana / kanji conversion is displayed on the display unit 13, the desired kanji is selected and designated by the corresponding kanji selection keys 19a to 19f.

In other words, the mode selector switch 11 is used to
A desired document is created by designating WP and repeating the key / symbol key input operation, kana / kanji conversion operation, and kanji selection operation. When printing a document created by key input, the print mode PR is designated by the mode changeover switch 11, then the head HA is brought into contact with the recording paper A side, and the apparatus main body 10 is pressed while the print key 20 is pressed. Move in the direction indicated by arrow X. As a result, the created document is printed.

FIG. 2 shows the printing unit 21 configured in the printing apparatus. In FIG. 2, 22 is an ink ribbon cassette, and the cassette 22 is the inside of the apparatus main body 10 centering on the printing unit 21. In addition, it is configured to be attachable and detachable with high precision. The ink ribbon cassette 22 is provided with two ribbon spools 23a and 23b, which serve as a supply spool and a take-up spool of the thermal transfer ink ribbon 24, respectively. The thermal transfer ink ribbon 24 is the ribbon cassette
It is set so as to be partially exposed at the lower end of the head 22 from the head mounting notch 25. A ribbon loading cutout 26 is formed in the print head portion HA of the print portion 21, and the thermal head 27 is formed by protruding the head surface of the cutout 26 from the bottom surface of the apparatus main body 10 at the central portion thereof. Are placed. The thermal head 27 is provided so as to be able to be slightly moved up and down along the slide hole 28a of the head mounting member 28, and the downward printing pressure is always maintained by the action of the spring 28b. Further, on the lower surface side of the apparatus main body 10 on which the thermal head 27 is arranged, two large and small openings 29 and 30 are formed on both sides of the ribbon loading notch 26, and rubber rollers 31 and 32 are arranged respectively on the openings 29 and 30. It These rubber rollers 31 and 32 are
When the apparatus main body 10 is moved in the direction indicated by the arrow X during the printing operation, it rotates in contact with the printing paper A, and one rubber roller 31 has a gear 33 coaxially fixed to its side portion. To be done. The gear 33 has a smaller diameter than the rubber roller 31, and is connected to the ribbon winding shaft 36 via a one-way clutch 34 and gears 35a and 35b. An encoder disk 38 is connected to the one-way clutch 34 via gears 37a and 37b. Here, the one-way clutch 34 transmits the rotation of the primary side to the secondary side, that is, the rotation of the rubber roller 31 to the ribbon winding shaft 36 and the encoder disk 38 only during the printing operation in the arrow X direction. Has become. A plurality of slits 38a, 38b, ... Are radially formed at regular intervals on the encoder disk 38, and the slit disks 38a, 38b, ...
The LED 39 and the photo sensor 40 are arranged. In this case, the LED
The projection light from the slit 39 of the encoder disc 38
The light enters the photosensor 40 through a, 38b, .... That is,
An encoder 41 is configured by the encoder disk 38, the LED 39, the photo sensor 40, and the like. And this print department
For 21, the ribbon winding shaft 36 and the pair of shafts
The ink ribbon cassette 22 is mounted with 42 as a support shaft. In this case, the thermal transfer ink ribbon 24 exposed in a part of the lower end portion of the ribbon cassette 22 is the thermal head 27 arranged in the ribbon loading notch 26 of the apparatus main body 10.
Set along the head surface of. Here, the device body 10
The back cover 10a is configured to be openable and closable by a hinge 10b, so that the ink ribbon cassette 22 can be easily replaced and the inside can be inspected. On the other hand, a circuit board 43 is arranged between the printing unit 21 and the front panel of the apparatus main body 10, and the keys and switches in FIG. 1 are connected to the encoder 41 and the thermal head 27 of the printing unit 21. It

FIG. 3 shows the structure of the electronic circuit formed on the circuit board 43. In FIG. 3, reference numeral 51 denotes a control unit, which controls the mode changeover signal from the mode changeover switch 11 to start. As input, various key input operation signals from the key input unit 12 and pulse signals corresponding to the movement amount of the apparatus body 10 from the encoder 41, that is, the movement amount detection signal are input. Then, the control unit 51 controls the conversion data (key input data) storage unit 52, the display RAM 53, the kana / Kanji conversion table 54, and the candidate Kanji characters according to various key operation signals from the mode changeover switch 11 and the key input unit 12. The storage unit 55, the text data storage unit 56, the thermal head drive circuit 57, and the batch designated magnification data register 58 are controlled. The conversion data storage unit 52 sequentially stores character / symbol data such as “kana” and “symbol” input from the key input unit 12 by operating the character / symbol input keys 14 and the function keys 15. Memory
The key input character / symbol data input to 52 is displayed on the display unit 1 via the display character generator 59 and the display RAM 53.
Displayed at 3. The kana / kanji conversion table 54 is a control part which is operated according to the operation of the kana / kanji conversion key 17 of the key input part 12.
When the conversion signal is output from 51, the conversion data storage unit
"Kana" in the key input character symbol data stored in 52
A kanji search corresponding to characters is performed. At this time, kanji are searched in the order of fixed phrases → compound words → single kanji, and the searched kanji is stored in the candidate kanji storage unit 55, and the candidate kanji storage unit 55 is searched.
And is displayed on the display unit 13. Here, when the kanji searched for in the kana / kanji conversion table 54 has a plurality of homonyms or homophones, the display limit by the display unit 13 (for example, 6 characters for one lower line) In the above cases, the next candidate signal is input from the control unit 51 by operating the next candidate key 18 of the key input unit 12, and the other undisplayed candidate Kanji characters are read out and sequentially replaced and displayed. When a selection signal from the control unit 51 by operating the Kanji selection keys 19a to 19f of the key input unit 12 is input to the candidate Kanji storage unit 55, the selected Kanji data is stored in the text data storage unit 56.
Is output to On the other hand, of the key input data stored in the conversion data storage unit 52, character symbol data that does not require kanji conversion is also transferred and stored in the text data storage unit 56. That is, the sentence data storage unit 56 stores the document information created by the operation of the key input unit 12 as document character data consisting of kanji converted from kana / kanji, unconverted kana, katakana, symbols, and external characters. In this case, one of the character and symbol data stored in the text data storage unit 56 is composed of 3 bytes, 2 bytes of which are codes directly indicating characters and symbols, and 3 bits of the remaining 1 byte are printed. A code indicating the lateral magnification at the time of 1
The bit is a code indicating the same vertical magnification.

Then, the character and symbol data of each character of the document data stored in the text data storage unit 56 is output to the display unit 13 via the display character generator 59 and the display RAM 53 for display, and also for printing. It is called by the character generator 60, the calculation unit 61, and the magnification data determination unit 62. The calculation unit 61 is a batch designated magnification data register
When the scale factor is designated by 58, the data portion indicating the scale factor in the character and symbol data called from the text data storage unit 56 is rewritten according to the scale factor and sent to the scale factor data determination unit 62. The magnification data determination unit 62 includes a text data storage unit 56.
A drive control signal is output to the thermal head drive circuit 57 in accordance with the contents of the data portion indicating the magnification in the character and symbol data called from. The thermal head drive circuit 57 includes a print mode signal and a print key from the control unit 51.
When 20 operation signals are output, the encoder pulse from the encoder 41 is input through the AND circuit 63, and the character data output from the printing character generator 59 in synchronization with this encoder pulse is thermal-processed line by line. Transfer to head 27 for printing. In this case, the thermal head 27 is a line type of 48 dots per line as described above, and its print quality is 24 × 24 dots in full width, and therefore one line is 1 in full width.
It becomes 1/24 line of the character.

 Next, the operation of the printing apparatus having the above configuration will be described.

First, to create a desired document, the mode selector switch 11 is operated to specify the word processing mode WP. Then
The control unit 51 is set to the word processor mode WP. here,
The user operates the key input unit 12 of the apparatus body 10 to sequentially input desired characters, symbols and the like.

Document information that you want to create by operating the character / symbol input key 14 and the function key 15 at the beginning, such as "Tokyo and Meguroku"
When the key is input, the input document data is sequentially transferred via the control unit 51 to the converted data storage unit 52 to be addressed. At the same time, the input document data is displayed on the display unit 13 via the display character generator 59 and the display RAM 53.
Will be displayed on top. When the kana / kanji conversion key 17 is operated after the kana of the desired document is input, the kana / kanji conversion table 54 starts from the beginning of the input characters to the fixed phrase → idiomatic word →
Kana / Kanji conversion processing is performed in the order of single Kanji. Here, when the reading of a kana character matches any of the candidate kanji stored in the candidate kanji storage unit 55 in advance, the kana character to be converted is indicated by the cursor k, and a candidate kanji string of the same sound is displayed. It is displayed in the subordinate. Here, when the user operates the kanji selection keys 19a to 19f to specify a desired kanji in the same-sound candidate kanji, the selection signal is output to the candidate kanji storage unit 55, and the conversion target kana character is converted to kanji. In addition, the next kana character to be converted is indicated by the cursor k. In this case, the converted Kanji data is transferred to and stored in the document data storage unit 56. Thereafter, the kanji selection process is repeated again in the same manner as described above to perform kana / kanji conversion.

Here, when the reading of the kana character that matches the kanji that does not need to be converted is displayed, the cursor key 16 is operated to indicate the desired kana character, and the candidate kanji that matches the reading is displayed. On the other hand, if the desired kanji does not exist in the candidate kanji displayed on the display unit 13 in the display state of the same sound candidate kanji at the time of the above-described kana / kanji conversion, the next candidate key 18 is operated to operate the control unit. Next, the next candidate signal is output to the candidate kanji storage unit 55 from 51. Then, other same-sound candidate kanji are replaced and displayed. If a desired kanji exists in the next candidate kanji, the kanji selection process similar to the above is repeated to perform kana / kanji conversion. If the desired Kanji is not displayed by the operation of the next candidate key 18 once,
Further, the next candidate key 18 is operated to display another homophone candidate kanji. Here, the kanji selected and designated by the kana / kanji conversion is sequentially transferred from the candidate kanji storage unit 55 to the sentence data storage unit 56. Kana characters and symbols that do not require kana / kanji conversion are By operating the invariant (unconverted) key of the function key 15, the data stored in the converted data storage unit 52 is transferred to the text data storage unit 56 as it is. By repeating the above character / symbol input processing, kana / kanji conversion processing, and kanji selection processing, the desired document “Meguro-ku, Tokyo” is created and stored in the text data storage unit 56.

Next, a description will be given of the operation in the case where the document data key-created as described above is partially scaled in character units and then printed. Here, each of the three letters “Tokyo” in the above document “Meguro-ku, Tokyo” is written in vertical 2
× It is assumed that printing is performed after setting a quadruple character of horizontal 2. First, the cursor k on the display unit 13 is moved to the "East" position of the first character of the sentence by operating the cursor key 16 and then the fourth
The partial multiple key 15b is operated as shown in FIG. When the partial magnification key 15b is operated, the character of "vertical 1 × horizontal 1" indicating the standard full-width character is first displayed on the display unit 13 as the designated magnification of the character "east". In other words, there are two designated magnifications for characters: 1x and 2x in the vertical direction and 0.5x, 1x, and 2x in the horizontal direction.
It is possible to specify 4 ways of double, 4 times, and by combining these, 6 kinds of character magnification can be specified: half-width, full-width, vertical (2) double-width, horizontal (2) double-width, 4-fold and 8-fold. Become.

Here, as shown in FIG. 4 (2), the cursor key 16 is operated to change the vertical designated magnification display from 1 × to 2 ×,
When the execute key 15a is operated, the data indicating the print vertical magnification "1" in the character data "East" stored in the text data storage unit 56 is rewritten to the partial designated magnification data "2" from the control unit 51.

Next, as shown in FIG. 4 (3), the cursor key 16 is operated again, and this time the designated magnification display in the horizontal direction is changed from 1 × to 2 ×.

Then, in order to specify the specified magnification in the horizontal direction, the fourth
When the execute key 15a is operated as shown in FIG. 4D, the data indicating the print vertical magnification "1" in the character data "East" stored in the text data storage unit 56 is also the partial designated magnification data from the control unit 51. Rewritten as "2". As described above, the character data “East” stored in the text data storage unit 56 becomes “2” both in vertical magnification and horizontal magnification, and as a result, becomes a quadruple-width character.
Therefore, a character indicating that it is a quadruple-width character is sent from the display character generator 59 to the display unit 13 via the display RAM 53 and displayed at the position in front of the character "East" as shown in FIG. 4 (4). Will be done. Display here
Due to the display capacity of 13, the character data "ku" is shifted and no longer displayed.

In the subsequent FIG. 4 (5), the same key operation as above is continuously performed, and the character data “Kyo” and “Miyako” stored in the text data storage unit 56 are also 2 × 2 × 4 × magnification. When the designation is made, a character indicating that it is a quadruple-width character is sent from the display character generator 59 to the display unit 13 through the display RAM 53 as shown in the figure, and the character "Kyo" is displayed.
It will also be displayed at the front position of each "city". Due to the display capacity of the display unit 13, the character data "Meguro" is shifted and is no longer displayed.

Next, a description will be given of the operation in the case where the key input is created as described above and the document data for which the magnification is designated is printed out. When printing document data, the mode selector switch 11 is switched to the print mode PR position. By switching the mode changeover switch 11, the control unit 51 is set to the print mode, the text data storage unit 56 is in a read state, and the thermal head drive circuit 57 is in a state of holding an encoder pulse from the encoder 41.

In this state, as shown in FIG. 1, the user brings the print head portion HA into contact with the recording sheet A and moves the apparatus body 10 in the direction of arrow X while pressing the print key 20. The rubber rollers 31 and 32 rotate as the apparatus body 10 moves, and the rotation is transmitted to the gears 37a and 37b in FIG. Then, as the gear 37b rotates, the encoder disc 38
The LED3 is rotated by the rotation of this encoder disk 38.
The light sent from 9 to the photo sensor 40 via the slits 38a, 38b, ... Is continuously controlled, and the photo sensor 40 outputs a pulse signal. Then, the pulse signal output from the photo sensor 40 becomes an output of the encoder 41 and is sent to the control unit 51 and the thermal head drive circuit 57 as a movement amount detection signal for the apparatus main body 10. The rotation of the rubber roller 31 is transmitted to the ribbon winding shaft 36 via the one-way clutch 34 and the gears 35a and 35b, and is further transmitted to the winding spool 23b in the ink ribbon cassette 22.
As a result, the ribbon take-up spool 23b rotates, and the thermal transfer ink ribbon 24 guided from the ribbon delivery spool 23a through the ribbon loading notch 26 is taken up. In this case, the ribbon winding shaft 36 rotates in accordance with the movement amount of the apparatus body 10 so as not to cause the slip between the recording paper A and the ink ribbon 24 as the apparatus body 10 moves, and The ink ribbon 24 is lightly pressed against the recording paper A by the thermal head 27 having a downward printing pressure by the spring 28b.

On the other hand, the movement amount detection signal output from the photo sensor 40 is sent to the control unit 51 and the thermal head drive circuit 57 as the output signal of the encoder 41 as described above. Then, the control unit 51 sequentially designates the memory addresses of the text data storage unit 56 in accordance with the movement amount detection signal from the encoder 41, reads the document data stored therein, and outputs this document data to the character generator for printing. Thermal head drive circuit as individual character data through 59
The data is output to 57 as well as to the magnification data determination unit 62. The magnification data determination unit 62 determines the content of the magnification data in the transmitted data and sends a control signal to the thermal head drive circuit 57. The thermal head drive circuit 57 drives the thermal head 27 according to the movement amount detection signal from the encoder 41, that is, the timing of reading the document data by the control unit 51 and the control signal from the magnification data determination unit 62. By driving the thermal head 27, the document data is thermally transferred onto the recording paper A via the ink ribbon 24.
In this case, the ink ribbon
Ink ribbon 24 from the delivery spool 23a of the cassette 22
The unused portion of the cassette 22 is sent out, and the used portion after being thermally transferred by the thermal head 27 is sequentially wound around a winding spool 23b in the cassette 22. By moving the device body 10 as described above, the text data storage unit
The created document data stored in 56 is sequentially printed on the recording paper A according to the designated magnification set for each character as shown in FIG.

Here, the display state of the display unit 13 according to the printing operation of the document data will be described.

First, in the initial state of the print mode in which the mode selection switch 11 is switched, the displayable range is displayed from the beginning of the created document data stored in the text data storage unit 56. When printing is started, recording paper A
The document data corresponding to the characters / symbols actually printed on the heat transfer disappears from the display unit 13, and instead, the document data in the sentence data storage unit 56 following the document data displayed so far is shifted. Is displayed. After this, when printing of all document data stored in the text data storage unit 56 is completed, the display unit 13 becomes blank. That is, the user moves the apparatus main body 10 to perform the printing process while confirming the document data to be printed by looking at the display state of the display unit 13. In this way, when the same document is further printed after the printing of all the document data is completed, the RS (restart) key in the function key 15 is operated to return to the initial state of the print mode again.

Next, an operation for collectively setting a specific magnification for each character of a document whose magnification is set in character units in FIG. 4 and then printing will be described. Here, it is assumed that the above-mentioned document "Meguro-ku, Tokyo" is further doubled in the horizontal direction and then printed. As shown in FIG. 5 (1), the double key 15c is operated, and then the execute key 15a is operated. By the operation of the full-magnification key 15c, the character of "vertical 1 x horizontal 1" indicating the standard magnification is first displayed on the display unit 13 as the designated magnification of the entire document, and by the subsequent operation key 15a, the collective vertical magnification " 1 ”is the batch designated magnification data register
It is stored in 58.

Next, as shown in FIG. 5 (2), the cursor key 16 and the execution key 15a are operated. This cursor key 16 operation changes the specified horizontal magnification display from 1x to 2x,
Then, by operating the execution key 15a, the batch lateral magnification "2" is stored and set in the batch designated magnification data register 58.

As described above, the batch designated magnification data stored in the batch designated magnification data register 58 is 1 vertical × 2 horizontal. At this time,
The storage content of the batch designated magnification data register 58 is sent to the arithmetic unit 61, and the arithmetic unit 61 computes this collective designated magnification data and the magnification data in each character data stored in the text data storage unit 56. Data indicating the magnification at the time of actual printing is calculated and sent to the magnification data determination unit 62, while being sent to the display character generator 59. As a result, a character indicating that it is a double-width character is sent from the display unit character generator 59 to the display unit 13 via the display RAM 53, and is also displayed at the front positions of the characters "East", "Kyo", and "Miyako". It will be.

Next, an operation in the case of printing out the document data for which the batch magnification is designated as described above will be described. When the mode selector switch 11 is switched to the print mode PR position as in the case of FIG. 4 (6), the control unit 51 is set to the print mode, the text data storage unit 56 is in the read state, and the thermal head drive circuit 57 is also in the read state. Is in the state of holding the encoder pulse from the encoder 41.

In this state, as shown in FIG. 1, the user brings the print head portion HA into contact with the recording paper A and moves the apparatus body 10 in the direction of arrow X while pressing the print key 20.
The encoder is moved along with the movement of the device body 10 as shown in FIG.
The pulse from 41 is sent to the control unit 51 and the thermal head drive circuit 57 as a movement amount detection signal. The control unit 51 sequentially designates the memory address of the text data storage unit 56 according to the movement amount detection signal from the encoder 41, reads the document data stored therein, and passes this document data through the print character generator 59. It is output to the thermal head drive circuit 57 as individual character data. At this time, the magnification data judgment unit 62 judges the designated magnification data sent from the calculation unit 61, and sends a control signal for each character to the thermal head drive circuit 57 based on the judgment result.
The thermal head drive circuit 57 drives the thermal head 27 in accordance with the movement amount detection signal from the encoder 41 and the control signal from the magnification data determination unit 62. This thermal head
By driving 27, the document data is thermally transferred onto the recording paper A via the ink ribbon 24. In this way the device body
When 10 is moved, the created document data stored in the text data storage section 56 is sequentially printed on the recording paper A as shown in FIG.

As described above, there are two possible designation ratios for characters: 1 in the vertical direction and 2 in the vertical direction, and 4 in the horizontal direction, 0.5, 1, 2 and 4 times. 6 combinations of half-width, full-width, vertical (2) double-width, horizontal (2) double-width, 4-fold double-width, and 8-fold double-width can be specified.
The figure shows the correspondence between the specified magnification of the font and the magnification of the font at the current point, and the resulting magnification of the font. . In the figure, “half” indicates half-width, “all” indicates vertical double-width, “horizontal” double-horizontal, “4” four-fold double, and “8” eight-fold double.

[Effects of the Invention] As described in detail above, according to the present invention, after the print magnification is set for each of a plurality of print data and printing is performed, the print magnification set for each print data is common. By setting the print magnification that is multiplied by the print magnification to set and print all at once, after printing each print data with an arbitrary print magnification set individually, it was set individually with that print magnification It is possible to multiply the print magnifications of all the print data by a common magnification and set the collective print magnification in an overlapping manner, and print all the print data at the collectively set print magnification. For this reason, it is possible to obtain print data having sizes similar to each other between the print data printed twice.

[Brief description of drawings]

The drawings show a printer according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 1 is an external configuration diagram, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a configuration of a printing unit, FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an electronic circuit, FIG. 4 is a diagram showing key operations when setting the magnification in character units and the corresponding display states and printing states, and FIG. 5 is a key operation when collectively setting the magnification of documents and the display states corresponding to them. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing the printing state, and FIG. 6 is a correspondence diagram showing the print magnification of the font obtained as a result of setting the print magnification in the vertical and horizontal directions with respect to the print magnification of the current font. 10: Device body, 10a: Back cover, 10b: Hinge, 11 ...
Mode switch, 12 …… Key input section, 13 …… Display section, 14 …… Character / symbol input key, 15 …… Function key, 15a
...... Enter key, 15b …… Partial magnification key, 15c …… Full magnification key,
16 …… Cursor key, 17 …… Kana / Kanji conversion key, 18…
… Next candidate key, 19a to 19f …… Kanji selection key, 20 …… Print key, 21 …… Print section, 22 …… Ink ribbon ・
Cassette, 23a …… Supply spool, 23b …… Take-up spool, 24 …… Heat transfer ink ribbon, 25 …… Head notch, 26 …… Ribbon loading notch, 27 …… Thermal head, 28 …… Head mounting member, 28a ... slide hole, 28b ... spring, 29,30 ... opening, 31,32 ... rubber roller, 33,35a, 35b, 37a, 37b ... gear, 34 ... one-way clutch, 36 ...... Ribbon winding shaft, 38 …… Encoder disk, 38a, 38b …… Slit, 39 …… LED, 40 …… Photo sensor, 41 …… Encoder, 42 …… Support shaft, 43 …… Circuit board, 51 ・ ・ ・... control unit, 52 ... conversion data storage unit, 53 ... display unit RAM, 54 ... Kana / Kanji conversion table, 55 ... candidate Kanji storage unit, 56 ... text data storage unit, 57 ... thermal head drive Circuit, 58 ... Batch designated magnification data register 5
8, 59 ...... Display character generator, 60 ...... Printing character generator, 61 ...... Calculation unit, 62 ...... Magnification data judgment unit, 63 ...... And circuit.

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. Input means for inputting a plurality of print data, storage means for storing a plurality of print data input by the input means, and print magnification for each of the plurality of print data stored in the storage means. A first magnification setting means for setting, a first printing means for executing printing of each print data in accordance with the printing magnification set by the first magnification setting means, and the first magnification setting means for setting. And a second setting means for collectively setting the print magnification obtained by multiplying the print magnification of each of the plurality of print data by a common magnification, and the print magnification of each print data according to the print magnification set by the second setting means. And a second printing means for executing printing.