JP2558242B2 - Printer print format setting device - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a print format setting device in a label printer which is used in conjunction with a measuring instrument or the like and which prints and issues the price of a product measured by the measuring instrument on a label.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As is well known, in this type of label printer, a label sheet in which a large number of labels are adhered to a strip-shaped mount is loaded inside and printing is performed in correspondence with the feeding path of the label sheet. Means are provided for printing and issuing various product information such as product name, weight, and price of the product on the label as the label sheet is fed. In that case, the above-mentioned information is printed on the label by dividing it into columns by type. For example, if the product is a food product, this field is divided into printing fields such as the product name field, bar code field, additive display field, store name and address display field, and data field for displaying prices, etc. It

However, in the conventional label printer, only one type of print format of the print column such as the product name column is stored in the memory, and the print order for the label is constant. For example, until then, the label is printed at the top of the label. Setting the print format by changing the layout, such as moving the product name column to the center part and printing it, requires a great deal of labor of changing the software program of the label printer control circuit, and in reality the user side It was impossible to change the format.

Therefore, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 61-197272 discloses a technique of storing various kinds of print format data together with a unique identification code in a print format table and selecting an arbitrary print format by inputting the above identification code. Is disclosed.

Further, in Japanese Laid-Open Patent Publication No. 1-146776, various printing items such as a product name, a product number, and a price are set in advance, a label size is entered on a screen of a display unit to display a frame, and The various print items that have been set are sequentially read out and displayed at a prescribed position within the frame, and the displayed print item is moved to the desired position within the frame to set the print format, and a label based on the print format is set. A technique for printing is disclosed.

[0006]

By the way, according to the techniques of both of the above publications, it is possible to create a desired print format by operating the screen, but in the former publication technique, a very large variety of print formats are printed. together it must be kept by pre-stored in the format table,
Since the techniques disclosed in both publications create a print format by screen editing, complicated work is required, and the software side of the control circuit of the label printer that backs up these screen editing becomes complicated, and the label printer Has the inconvenience of pushing up to something more expensive than necessary.

Therefore, it is an object of the present invention to provide a print format setting device for a printer, which can change the print format by operating a screen and can keep the price low.

[0008]

That is, the print format setting device for a printer according to the present invention is arranged so that a print sheet is fed.
A printing means is provided corresponding to the delivery route, and the printing means
The print format recorded in the memory.
Therefore, multiple sheets of print information classified by type are listed above.
To print and issue in the state that it is arranged in the feeding direction.
Read each print information to the above memory.
The print block in which the index for
In addition to providing a table provided in the order in which the information is arranged,
Select the above index for each print block of the table
Set the print information array order by entering in
Input means is provided, and the printing means is each printing block.
The corresponding print information based on the index of the above array
Read and print in the order of the numbers or the reverse sequence number
It is characterized by being configured .

[0009]

[Function] As described above, a plurality of printing information can be printed by the printing means.
Are printed on the print sheet with the print sheet arranged in the feeding direction.
In a simple type printer, each print information is stored in the memory.
The print block in which the index for reading the
A table is provided in which each print information is arranged in the order of arrangement.
The above index is added to each print block of the table.
Print information by selectively inputting with input means
Array order, that is, to set the print format
And each printing block of
Based on the index, print the corresponding print information using the array number above.
Read out and print in the order of the sequence number or reverse sequence number.
Therefore, the print format change settings can
The index to read is set to each print block in the table above.
Very simple operation, just enter the code selectively to the lock
Can be done easily.

[0010]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described with reference to the drawings.

[0011] Figure 11 shows an electronic balance 1 the label printer is integrally incorporated, the weighing pan 3 provided on the main body 2, the product is canceller mounting the metering pan 3, are incorporated in the main body 2 weight is weighed by the weighing unit 4 (see FIG. 3) which are
On the other hand, the feeding of the label sheet (printing sheet) described later
The printing means 5 is provided corresponding to the printing path, and the printing means 5 is provided.
The print format recorded in the memory.
Therefore, the data such as the product name and the price commensurate with the above product weight
Data, additives, store names / addresses, etc.
With the print information arranged on the sheet in the feeding direction,
It is configured to be printed and issued. The electronic scale 1 has a key input section 6 having a large number of key tops.
And a display unit for displaying data.

The printing means 5 is, in the present embodiment,
As shown in FIG. 2, it is composed of a label cassette 8 that is inserted into and removed from the main body 2 of the electronic scale 1. The label cassette 8 includes a roll support portion 10 to which a roll 9a of a label sheet 9 formed by releasably attaching a large number of labels X to X on a strip-shaped mount Y is attached, and from the roll support portion 10. A guide plate 11 for guiding the pulled out label sheet 9 in the horizontal direction, and a sheet pressing mechanism 1 for pressing the sheet 9 from above on the rear side of the guide plate 11.
2, a first guide roller 13 for guiding and guiding the label sheet 9 that has passed through the pressing mechanism 12 on the front side of the guide plate 11, and a printing unit 14 provided immediately after the first guide roller 13 has passed. 2, a platen roller 16 against which the print head 15 on the main body side is pressed with the label sheet 9 sandwiched therebetween, and a peeling bar 17 arranged in front of the platen roller 16 for peeling the label X from the mount Y. The label issuing port 18 for sending the peeled label X out of the main body, and the mount X having passed through the peeling bar 17 are turned at a substantially right angle to guide the guide downward.
The guide roller 19 and a mount winding unit 20 that winds the mount Y are provided. The mount take-up unit 20
Is driven by a motor (not shown) on the main body side.

FIG. 3 shows a control circuit of the electronic scale 1, which is provided with a control unit 21 for controlling the entire operation. The control unit 21 includes various CPUs 22, a ROM 23 in which operation programs and the like are stored in advance, a rewritable RAM 24 that stores calculation results and other various data, a battery-backed reference clock 25, and various signals. And an output interface 27 for output control. Then, the weighing signal from the weighing unit 4 and the key input signal from the key input unit 6 are input to the input interface 26, and the output interface 27 outputs the display signal to the display unit 7 and the printing signal to the printing unit 5. Are respectively output.

The RAM 24 is backed up by a battery, and a database of a print format library that defines the size and print position of the data to be printed on the label X, a product master that sets various product information for each product, etc. as a database. A printing order table, which will be described later, is provided in the memory area of the library.

In addition to the store name and address of the manufacturer or seller, the product name, product data, unit price, etc. of the product are fixed in the memory area for each block assigned to the calling number of each product. In addition to the single item data, the additive, and if necessary, the effective number of days, a time flag, a guide character for instructing these items, and other various data are registered.

Next, the operation in the pricing operation will be described. When the power is turned on, the CPU 22 in the control unit 21 performs a predetermined initialization process in accordance with the startup program written in the ROM 23, and a predetermined work area is stored in the RAM 24. After forming,
Wait for key input from the key input unit 6. Next, the operator inputs a character string indicating the calling number of the product to be weighed from the key input unit 6 and then puts the product on the aforementioned weighing pan. Along with this, the weight of the product is weighed in the weighing unit 4, the measured value is input to the CPU 22, and the CPU 22 calculates the price from the unit price corresponding to the type of the product based on the measured value and operates the printing means 5. Let That is, in the label cassette 8, the mount take-up roll 20 rotates to pull out the label sheet 9 from the roll 9a, and for the label X passing through the printing unit 14 by the pulling out, the print head 15 determines a predetermined price or the like. Is printed. Then, the label X after printing is sequentially peeled from the leading end portion (corresponding to the lower end of the label X in this embodiment) from the mount Y fed downward through the peeling bar 17, and finally the trailing end portion (similarly). (Corresponding to the upper end of the label X) is partially attached to the mount Y, and then stopped.

Then, the operator mounts the label X in the half-peeled state with the leading end protruding from the label issuing port 18 onto the mount Y.
The price is completed by peeling the label X from the label and sticking the label X on the product placed on the weighing pan 3. Then, such an operation is repeated every time the product is placed on the weighing pan 3 and weighed. When changing the type of product, the type of product is specified by the key input unit 6,
The price is calculated based on the unit price and the measured value of the product, and the similar pricing work is performed.

By the way, in the case of food, the information printed on the label X is a product name column (the address number B described later, which describes the product name of the product, as shown in FIGS. 7 and 8.
Column corresponding to the above), data column 1 for printing prices and the like (column corresponding to A of the address number), additive column indicating additives added to the product (column corresponding to C of the address number) ), A data field 2 for printing a barcode (also a field corresponding to the address number D), and a printing field such as a store name / address field (also a field corresponding to the address number E). These printing fields are It is laid out in a predetermined print format. . In that case, depending on the type of product, for example, when the layout fixed in the format of FIG. 7 is desired to be changed from the state of FIG. 7 to the additive column and the data column 2 as shown in FIG. There is. Therefore, in the present invention, the following control can be performed.

That is, in the control circuit of FIG.
The print order table 28 is set in the memory area of the print format of M24, and the print order table 28 is provided with five print blocks 28a to 28e. Then, the print blocks 28a to 28e are provided with No1 to No5.
The address numbers up to are attached, and when printing, No1 is placed on the label X (one side of the label X feeding direction).
Side) and under the label X in order (the feeding direction of the label X, etc.
Toward the side) , these print blocks 28a to 28
feeding product information is written in addition it is on e of the label X
It is designed to be printed in a state of being arranged in the direction . However, when the actual printing operation is performed from the bottom to the top of the label X, the print order table 28 is searched from the print block No. 5 while the print head 1 is being searched.
When the printing is performed according to No. 5, and the printing is performed from the top to the bottom of the label X, the printing order table 28 is searched from No1. At the time of print output, each print block 28a
The data of 28e are read out collectively for each block, developed in the image area, and output to the print bed 15 for each dot line in synchronization with the feeding operation of the label sheet 9 in the label cassette 8 described above. Has been done.

On the other hand, an index number is attached to each of the print columns such as the product name column, so that the index number can be selectively written in the format setting column 29 of the print order table 28. ing. For example, in the case of this example, the index number A is the data column 1, B is the product name column, C is the additive column,
D is a data field 2 and E is a store name / address field, and these index numbers are selectively set in the format setting fields 29 of the respective address numbers 1 to 5 of the printing table 28 to print the format. I can change it.

That is, the display unit 7 shown in FIGS.
When the screen in print format setting menu New over, the index number A~E in a predetermined space, such as the lower right of the screen
Is displayed correspondingly, and the cursor 30 appears. Therefore, when an index number is entered according to the desired print format, it appears on the screen of that number (B in this case), and the print field of the index number B is displayed in the format setting field 29 of No. 1 of the print order table 28 described above. Written. On the other hand, since the cursor 30 moves laterally (or moves downward) by the writing, the next index number is entered. By repeating this, each print field is written in the format setting field 29 to create a print format. For example, in FIG.
In case of the label, the print order is the address number No1 =
B, No2 = A, No3: D, No4 = C, No5 = E
Create are implanted such that, when the label of FIG. 8 N o 1 = B, No2 = A, No3 = C, No4 = D, N
A print format is created by typing so that o5 = E.

[0022] Now that you create print format above, then issues a detail setting screen shown in FIG. 6 by menu New over switch, sets the number of product name column and additives column labels X used size And the bar code length (actually, the bar code length setting is entered by the number of dots.) After these settings, the information content for each print field is set. This completes the creation of the print format or print information.

The printing operation of the print information thus created will be described with reference to the flow chart shown in FIG. The flow chart is for printing from the bottom to the top of the label.

In response to the print command, the search is started from the print block 28e at the bottom of the print order table 28 shown in FIG. 4 (steps S1 and S2).

Next, it is judged whether or not the index number is written in the print block 28e having the address number 5, and if not, the process proceeds to the search for the next print block in step S6. The print information of the block 28e is read from the print format library and printed on the label X (steps S3, S).
4). When printing is performed with the set number of steps, the next print block 28d in the print order table 28 is searched, the index number written in the block 28d is read, and the same operation is performed in step S3. Is repeated from step S6 to step S6 (step S
5, S6). However, even if there is a print block in which the index number is written, the above steps are not repeated for a print column in which no print information is written, and the next print column is moved to. When the printing of the print information registered in the print order table 28 up to the print block 28a is completed in this way, the label sheet 9 is fed, and the printed label X becomes the label issuing port as described in FIG. While being sent to 18, the next new label X is conveyed to a position corresponding to the print head 15 (steps S2 and S).
7).

In this way, a plurality of print blocks 28a to 28e whose print order is fixed are set in the print order table 28, and these print blocks 28 are displayed on the screen of the display unit 7.
Select the print column index numbers in a to 28e and apply the item column, data column 1 and 2, additive column, address column to set the print order of the print columns and create the print format. Therefore, the print format can be easily created, and the print format can be easily changed. Moreover, since the above print format is created by rewriting the index number in the print order table 28 of the RAM 24, the control circuit required for this does not require complicated software technology.

In the above embodiment, the printing order of each printing column is changed, but the data of one printing column, for example, the information such as the weight, unit price and price of the data column is also coded by the same method. It is also possible to change the order of these arrangements by a similar method.

[0028]

As described above, according to the present invention, the printing hand is
Multiple print information on the print sheet in the feeding direction
Simple type printer that prints in an array
The index for reading each print information in the memory
The print blocks in which the registered
A table is provided and each printing block of the table is provided.
Input the above index into the
Sequence of print information,
It is configured to set the matte and the printing means
Therefore, the correspondence is based on the index of each print block.
Read the printed information in the order of the above array numbers
The print format is changed because it is printed out.
The further setting has an index for reading each print information.
Selectively input each print block in the above table
It can be done easily with a very simple operation,
In addition, the printing order of each printing block in the above table can be fixed, unnecessary sophistication of the software surface can be prevented, and the cost increase of the printer can be suppressed by simplifying the configuration of the control circuit. You can

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external view of an electronic scale to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a sectional view showing an example of a printing structure of the electronic scale.

FIG. 3 is a control circuit diagram of the electronic scale.

FIG. 4 is a conceptual diagram of a print order Dell of a memory.

FIG. 5 is a display screen when setting a print format.

FIG. 6 is a detailed setting screen.

FIG. 7 is a label printing surface showing an example of a printing format.

FIG. 8 is a label printing surface showing another example of the printing format.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart of a printing operation.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Electronic scale 5 Printing means 6 Key input part 7 Display part 21 Control unit 24 RAM 28 Printing order table 28a-28e Printing block

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A stamp corresponding to a feeding path of a print sheet.
Character means is provided, and is recorded in the memory by the printing means.
According to the print format
Arranged multiple printed information on the sheet in the feeding direction.
A printer that prints and issues in the
An index for reading each print information is registered in the memory.
Providing print blocks to be recorded in the order in which each print information is arranged
Table is provided and each printing block of the table is
By entering the above index selectively into the
Input means to set the arrangement order of print information
The printing means is based on the index of each printing block.
Then, the corresponding print information is arranged in the order of the above array numbers or in the reverse order.
A print format setting device for a printer, which is configured to read and print in numerical order .