JP2537184B2 - Document creating device having postcard address printing function - Google Patents

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a document creating apparatus having a postcard address printing function.

[Technical Background of the Invention and Problems Thereof] In recent years, low-priced, multifunctional small-sized Japanese word processors have become popular. Such word processors have become popular. The printing performance of such word processors has improved considerably, and printing is possible even on thick paper such as postcards.

Therefore, as shown in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 59-220832, a word processor having a postcard printing system for performing postcard address printing is widely known.

However, in the publication described in this publication, when a character group to be printed is stored in the storage means and the printing of the address of the postcard is designated as the print mode, the character group stored in the storage means described above. Mode is read, the dot pattern corresponding to this code is developed in the buffer area 14, and then the dot pattern developed in the buffer area 14 is cut out line by line and sent to the printer 19 for printing. .

That is, since the characters to be printed on one postcard are stored as one group in the storage means, when printing a postcard to a plurality of destinations with the same sender, each character group is to be printed. Since the sender had to be memorized, there was a problem that the work was not only complicated but the capacity of the storage means increased.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and an object thereof is a postcard address printing function capable of easily performing postal address printing even when one sender information and a plurality of recipient information are stored. It is to provide a document creation device having the following.

[Object of the Invention] The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and an object thereof is to provide a document creation apparatus having a postcard address printing function capable of easily performing address printing of a postcard.

[Summary of the Invention] In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a document storage unit in which one sender information and a plurality of destination information are stored, and one sender information and a plurality of destinations stored in the document storage unit. Document designation means for designating one sender information or one address information from the information, and line modification information for print lines separately provided for official postcards and New Year's postcards for storing postcard line-by-line print formats For a postcard that stores the print line storage means, the print line designating means for designating the lines to be printed on the postcard, and the digit information and character conversion information of the transfer source and transfer destination for each print line. And the transfer instruction storage means respectively provided for the New Year's postcard and the transfer information of the print line specified by the print line specification means are obtained from the transfer instruction storage means, and the document specifying means specifies the transfer information based on the transfer information. Predetermined information from the specified sender information or destination information is taken out, and the print information for one line of a postcard is stored in the print buffer, and is combined on the print buffer based on the line modification information of the print line. A document creating apparatus having a postcard address printing function, comprising: a printing unit that prints printing information.

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram functionally showing a partial configuration of a document creating apparatus according to an embodiment. In FIG.
Reference numeral 11 is a key input unit equipped with keys necessary for creating a document. The key operation signal input from the key input unit 11 is sent to the input control device 12 and an input signal corresponding to the key operation is created. The input signal is sent to the postcard address printing device 13 and the editing device 14, and is also sent to the display device 15 composed of an LCD (liquid crystal display device) for display. The document edited by the editing device 14 is displayed on the display device 15. Reference numeral 16 denotes a document buffer which holds data for one document such as a postcard addressing document having a format shown in FIG. The document stored in the document buffer 16 is stored in the floppy disk 18 under the control of the document reading / writing device 17 as needed, and the document stored in the floppy disk 18 is stored in the document buffer as needed. Read in 16.

By the way, the detailed configuration of the postcard address printing device 13 will be described later with reference to FIG. 2. This device 13 extracts necessary information from the postcard address document stored in the document buffer 16 and stores it in the printing mechanism 19. One line of print data is sent to the line buffer. Then, this print data is printed by the printer device 20 on a postcard or the like.

Next, a detailed configuration of the postcard address printing device 13 will be described with reference to FIG. A signal a for starting the printing of the postcard address, which is output from the input control device 12, is input to the device 13. When this signal a is input to the control unit 21, control of the postcard address printing by the control unit 21 is started. Further, 22 is a document line counter for designating the lines of the postcard addressed document stored in the document buffer 16, 23 is a print line counter for designating the lines of the postcard printed by the printer 20, and these counters 22, 23 The control of the
It is performed by

In addition, 24 indicates the print data of each line of the postcard designated by the print line counter 23 as the number of the line and the digit of the postcard address document (the memorizing source) and the number of the character of the synthesizing buffer 25 (the transfer destination). It is a transcription instruction table in which transcription information indicating whether to transfer is stored. Further, 26 is a print format comprising a line modification table (character size, line feed pitch, character spacing for each line) in FIG. 6 and a print line unit table showing a print area for each print line of a postcard as shown in FIG. It's a table. The tables 24 and 26 are provided for official postcards and New Year's postcards, respectively. Then, the information read from the tables 24 and 26 is read to the control unit 21. By the way, 27 is a data synthesizing routine for creating print data for one line of a postcard in the synthesizing buffer 25. In this routine 27, data from the hyphen “−” code generating section 28 and the postal “〒” code generating section 29 is stored. It is read as needed.

Next, the operation of the embodiment of the present invention configured as above will be described. First, in order to print the postcard address, when the key operation for the postcard address printing of the key input unit 11 is performed, the process shown in the flowchart of FIG. 5 is performed. First, assume that a postcard address printing document has already been keyed in and is stored in the document buffer 16 or a postcard address printing document stored in the floppy disk 18 is stored in the document buffer 25. . Then, it is determined whether or not the postcard address printing document is stored in a predetermined format as shown in FIG. Here, if the format of the document is stored in a predetermined format, the type of postcard (official / new year card) is selected (step S2). When the [Select / Execute] key is operated, the signal is input to the input control device 12.
Is input to the postcard address printing device 13 via (step
S3). By this selection, the tables 24 and 26 for official postcards or New Year's cards are selected. This is because the postcards for New Year's cards and official postcards have different printing areas printed on one line. Hereinafter, the process proceeds assuming that the printing of the address of the officially made postcard is selected. Then, if there is one for printing the postcard address (step S4), the display "printing" is output to the display device 15 (step S5).

Hereinafter, the postcard address printing process performed in step S6 will be described in detail. First, the control unit 21 resets the document line counter 22 to "2" and the print line counter 23 to "1". Since the officially made postcard is selected in the process of step S2, the officially made postcard is also selected for the tables 24 and 26. Then, the print line of the postcard indicated by the print line counter 23, that is, the transfer information for the first line is the control unit.
Read in 21. As the transfer information, the print data on the first line of the postcard is the information indicating from which line of the postcard address document of FIG. Based on this transfer information, the data synthesizing routine 27 reads the last digit of the postal code from the fifth digit of the second line of the postcard address document in FIG. 3 and sends it to the synthesizing buffer 25. Then, the print line unit table and the line modification table for the first print line are referred to, and the lower first digit number A of the postal code is printed on the first line of the postcard set in the printer device 20 by the printing mechanism 19. . In this way, when the printing of one line of the postcard is completed, the control unit 21 increments the content of the print line counter 23.

Next, the control unit 21 selects the print line 2 from the transfer instruction table 24.
Data transfer routine that reads the transcription information for the line
27 transfers the print information of the second line of the postcard, that is, the destination address (1) B to the composition buffer 25 by 15 characters from the 31st digit of the second line of the postcard address document based on the transcription information. . Then, the destination address (1) B is printed in the same manner,
After printing, the print line counter 23 is incremented. Thereafter, the destination information stored in the second line of the postcard address document stored in the document buffer 16 is printed on the postcard by the transfer route as shown by the arrow in FIG. After the destination information is printed, the sender information is printed on the postcard.
In this case, the document line counter 22 is set to "1". Similarly, the transfer information of the transfer instruction table 24 designated by the print line counter 23 is read into the control unit 21 and the print data for one line of the postcard is created in the combine buffer 25 by the data combining routine 27. , Printed on postcards. When the printing of the address of one postcard is completed, the document line counter 22 is set to "3".

By the way, when a key operation to stop printing is operated from the key input unit 11 while one postcard is being printed, it is determined as "YES" in step S7 and the printing process is ended. Further, even if printing of one postcard is completed, if there is one to be printed next (step S8), a message output of the paper set is displayed on the display device 15 (step S
9). When the next postcard is set and the [Execute] key is operated, the process returns to step S5 again, and the second postcard address is printed in step S6. In this way, until there is no data for the postcard addressed document in the document buffer 25,
The same process is repeated, and the number of postcards corresponding to the destination information is printed.

As described above in detail, according to the present invention, if one sender information and a plurality of destination information are stored, the transfer information of the print line designated by the print line designating means is stored as a transfer instruction. Based on the transfer information obtained from the means, predetermined information is taken out from the sender information or the destination information specified by the document specifying means, and the print information for one line of the postcard is printed on the print buffer based on the line modification information of the print line. Even if the same sender is used and postcard printing is performed for a plurality of destinations, it is sufficient to store one sender information in the document storage means, and the sender information can be stored easily. It is possible to provide a document creation device having a postcard address printing function that can easily perform postcard address printing.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a document creating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a detailed configuration of the postcard address printing apparatus of FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a postcard address document format. FIG. 4, FIG. 4 is a diagram showing transfer information, FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation of one embodiment, FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a line modification table, and FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a print format table. . 13 …… Postcard address printer, 16 …… Document buffer, 19…
… Printing mechanism, 21 …… Control unit, 22 …… Document line counter, 23
…… Print line counter, 24 …… Posting instruction table, 25 ……
Compositing buffer, 26 ... Print format table, 27 ...
… Data synthesis routine.

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A document storage means in which one sender information and a plurality of destination information are stored, and one sender information or destination information from the one sender information and a plurality of destination information stored in the document storage means. And a print line storage means for storing the line modification information of the print lines separately provided for official postcards and for New Year's postcards, which stores the print format for each line of postcards. Printing line designating means for designating the upper line to be printed, and transcription instructions provided for official postcards and New Year's postcards in which the digit information and character conversion information of the transcription source and transcription destination are stored for each printing line. The transfer information of the print line designated by the storage means and the print line designation means is obtained from the transcription instruction storage means, and the sender information or the destination information designated by the document designation means based on the transcription information. Combining means for deriving predetermined information from the print information for one line of the postcard on the print buffer based on the line modification information of the print line, and printing means for printing the print information stored in the print buffer. A document creation apparatus having a postcard destination printing function, comprising: