JP2953692B2 - Printing control device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Overview] A printing control device capable of arbitrarily setting a printing origin, which is a printing reference on a printing medium placed in a printing mechanism, is disclosed. In order to print accurately on the medium, at the time of printing, the information of the arbitrary printing origin, the information of the printing start position, and the information of the printing end position on the printing medium are input by moving the print head with respect to the printing medium. I do.
A relative position of the printing start position from the origin is obtained from the information on the origin and the information on the printing start position. A relative position of the printing end position from the printing start position is obtained from the information of the origin, the information of the printing start position, and the information of the printing end position. The present invention is configured to print the input print information at a print position determined by a relative position of the print start position from the origin and a relative position of the print end position from the print start position.

[Industrial applications]

The present invention relates to a printing control apparatus that can arbitrarily set a printing origin as a printing reference on a printing medium placed in a printing mechanism.

[Conventional technology]

In a conventional word processor with a built-in printer, when printing print data at a desired place, printing is performed by moving a print head to a desired print start position by operating a key from a keyboard.

However, in this method, the print head must be moved for each print data to specify the print start position.For example, even when there are a plurality of sheets of the same print content, the print head is required for each print sheet. It was moved to specify the print start position.

Recently, as a technique for eliminating the inconvenience caused by the movement of the head, recently, the distance from the upper left end of the paper to the printing position is actually measured and input in advance, and even when there are a plurality of papers of the same print content, , Based on the information you set,
A device has been devised in which a print head automatically moves to a print start position and starts printing.

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

By the way, the above-described conventional technique of sequentially moving the print head to the print start position has a problem that the operator's labor is required as described above. Even in the technique of actually measuring the distance to the position and inputting it in advance, there is a problem that printing cannot be performed at an accurate position due to a difference in thickness of printing paper or a mechanical error of a printing mechanism.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a print control apparatus capable of performing accurate printing on a shifted print medium while reducing the labor of an operator.

[Means for solving the problem]

 FIG. 1 shows a principle block diagram of the present invention.

In the figure, the origin input means 115 causes an arbitrary position on the print medium to be designated as the origin by a movement operation of the print head with respect to the print medium, and inputs information of the designated origin,
It is stored in the storage unit 111.

The print start position input means 117 causes the print start position information to be designated by moving the print head with respect to the print medium, and uses the information on the origin and the information on the print start position to determine the relative position of the print start position from the origin. The position information is obtained and stored in the storage means 111.

The print end position input means 119 allows a print end position to be designated by moving the print head with respect to the print medium,
The information on the origin, the information on the print start position input by the print start position input means 117, and the information on the relative position from the print start position of the print end position using the information on the print end position are obtained. It is stored in the storage unit 111.

The print control unit 121 uses the information on the relative position from the origin of the print start position stored in the storage unit 111 and the information on the relative position from the print start position of the print end position to print information. Printing is performed on the print medium.

According to the present invention, which is constituted by the above constituent elements, the print information is printed based on information on a relative position of the print start position from the origin and information on a relative position of the print end position from the print start position. It is configured to print based on an arbitrary position on the medium.

[Action]

The origin input means 115 allows an arbitrary position on the print medium to be designated as the origin by a movement operation of the print head with respect to the print medium, and stores the information of the designated origin in the storage means 111.
To be stored.

The print start position input means 117 allows a print start position to be specified by moving the print head with respect to a print medium, and information on the relative position of the print start position from the origin using the information on the origin and the information on the print start position. And the information on the relative position is stored in the storage means 111.

The print end position input means 119 causes a print end position to be designated by moving the print head with respect to the print medium. The information on the origin, the information on the print start position, and the information on the print end position are used to determine information on the relative position of the print end position from the print start position, and the information on the relative position is stored in the storage unit 111. Store.

The information on the relative position of the print start position from the origin and the information on the relative position of the print end position from the print start position stored in the storage unit 111 are used in the print control unit 121. Accordingly, the print information can be printed at an accurate position on the print medium with reference to an arbitrary position on the print medium.

Therefore, according to the present invention, the print position information obtained by moving the print head with respect to the print medium, that is, the print position information obtained by arbitrarily specifying the origin of printing on the print medium after setting the print medium Based on the print position information, the print control unit 121 prints the print information.
Even if the set print medium is displaced from the proper set position, the print information can be printed with the position specified arbitrarily in advance for the print information on the set print medium as the print reference position. The labor of the operator when performing such printing is reduced, and printing can be performed accurately.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 2 shows the configuration of a word processor with a printing device according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 3 shows a detailed configuration of information stored in the program ROM.
FIG. 4 shows a detailed configuration of information stored in the RAM.

I. Correspondence Between Embodiment and FIG. 1 Here, the correspondence between the embodiment of the invention described in claim 1 and FIG. 1 will be described.

 The storage unit 111 corresponds to the RAM 235.

The print information input unit 113 corresponds to the CPU 211, the keyboard 213, the screen display device 215, and the program ROM 223.

The print position information input means 115 includes a CPU 211, a keyboard 213,
It corresponds to the program ROM 223, the SP motor 225, the LF motor 227, and the print head 229.

The print control unit 117 corresponds to the CPU 211, the program ROM 223, the SP motor 225, the LF motor 227, and the print head 229.

 The printing mechanism corresponds to the print head 229.

Assuming that the above-mentioned correspondence exists, an embodiment of the present invention will be described below.

II. Configuration of Embodiment In FIG. 2, a word processor with a printing device (an example of a document processing device in the claims) includes a CPU 211 for performing overall control, and a keyboard 213 for inputting information.
, A screen display device 215 on which information is displayed, an external input / output device 217, a CG-ROM 221 storing font data for printing, a program ROM 223, and an SP motor for moving the print head in the space direction. 225, LF motor 227 for line feed operation of print paper, print head 229 for printing characters, LES sensor 231 for detecting the home position of print head 229, and PE sensor for detecting the presence or absence of print paper 233 and RAM235.

Note that the connection of the above-described configuration is such that all other components are connected to the CPU 211.

In FIG. 3, the program ROM 223 stores the SP motor 22
5, an LF motor control program 313 for controlling the LF motor 227, and a print head control program 3 for controlling the print head 229.
15, a keyboard control program 317 for controlling the keyboard 213, other programs 319, and a free format program 321 for operating format information. In addition, the free format program 321 is used to calculate relative position, SP
It is composed of programs for motor rotation amount calculation, LF motor rotation amount calculation, keyboard input data determination processing, storage destination determination processing, and other processing.

In FIG. 4, a RAM 235 stores a document storage area 411 in which format information and print data corresponding to the format information are stored, a SP motor rotation amount total counter 413, an LF motor rotation amount counter 415, and information indicating the origin ( An origin storage area 417 for storing X and Y coordinates) and a plurality of format information storage areas 4
19 and are secured. The format information storage area 419 includes a start position X coordinate storage area (), a start position Y coordinate storage area (), an end position X coordinate storage area (), an end position Y coordinate storage area (), and the number of digits. The storage area () and the row number storage area () are secured.

III. Operation of Embodiment FIG. 5 shows a procedure of an operation of designating format information. Also,
FIG. 6 shows a detailed procedure of an operation of designating format information.

The operation of the embodiment will be described below with reference to FIGS.

(I) Designation of format information First, printing paper is set (step 511).
The print head is initialized and moved to the home position (step 511-1).
13 is reset (step 511-2). Automatic suction of paper is performed by the paper feed key (step 511-).
3) The LF motor rotation amount total counter 415 is reset (step 511-4).

The origin is specified (step 512). On the cursor,
The LF motor 227 is rotated by the down key (located on the keyboard 213) to move the printing paper up and down to a position in the vertical direction of the desired origin. At this time, the rotation amount of the LF motor 227 from the position where the paper is automatically sucked is stored in the LF motor rotation amount total counter 415, with the paper discharge direction being + and the reverse direction being-(step 512-1). The SP motor 225 is rotated by the cursor left and right keys (located on the keyboard 213) to move the print head 229 to a position in the horizontal direction of the desired origin. At this time, the rotation amount of the SP motor 225 is stored in the SP motor rotation amount total counter 413, with the right direction being + and the left direction being-(step 512-2). Step 51
With 2-1 and step 512-2, with the print head 229 set at the position of the desired origin on the printing paper,
When the execute key (on the keyboard 213) is pressed, the SP
SP motor 225 stored in motor rotation total counter 413
Is the X coordinate of the origin and the LF motor rotation total counter 4
The rotation amount of the LF motor 227 stored in 15 is stored in the origin storage area 417 as the Y coordinate of the origin (step 512-).
3).

The printing start position is specified (step 513). The LF motor 227 is rotated with the cursor up / down keys to move the printing paper up and down to a desired vertical position of the printing start position. At this time, as in step 512, the rotation amount of the LF motor 227 from the position where the paper is automatically sucked is stored in the LF motor rotation amount total counter 415 (step 513).
-1). The SP motor 225 is rotated by the cursor left and right keys, and the print head 229 is moved to the left and right position of the desired print start position. At this time, as in step 512, the rotation amount of the SP motor 225 is stored in the SP motor rotation amount total counter 413 (step 513-2). Steps
513-1 and step 513-2, print head 229
When the execution key is pressed in a state where is set to the desired printing start position on the printing paper, the SP stored in the SP motor rotation total counter 413 is calculated by the relative position calculation program stored in the freely adjustable format program 321. LF stored in motor 225 rotation amount and LF motor rotation amount total counter 415
A relative position from the origin of the printing start position is calculated from the rotation amount of the motor 227 and the information of the origin position stored in the origin storage area 417, and the information of the X coordinate and the Y coordinate is stored in the format information storage area 419. It is stored in a predetermined area (step 513-
3).

The printing end position is specified (step 514). The LF motor 227 is rotated by the cursor up and down keys to move the printing paper up and down to a desired vertical position of the printing end position. At this time, similarly to step 512, the rotation amount of the LF motor 227 from the position where the paper is automatically sucked is stored in the LF motor rotation amount total counter 415 (step 514).
-1). The SP motor 225 is rotated with the cursor up / down keys to move the print head 229 to the left / right position of the desired print end position. At this time, as in step 512, the rotation amount of the SP motor 225 is stored in the SP motor rotation amount total counter 413 (step 514-2). Step 51
According to 4-1 and step 514-2, when the execution key is pressed with the print head 229 set to the desired print end position on the printing paper, the relative position calculation program stored in the format free program 321 is used. The rotation amount of the SP motor 225 stored in the SP motor rotation total counter 413 and the LF stored in the LF motor rotation total counter 415.
The rotation amount of the motor 227 and the relative position from the printing start position of the printing end position are calculated from the information on the position of the origin stored in the origin storage area 417 and the information on the printing start position calculated in step 513. The information of the X coordinate and the Y coordinate is stored in a predetermined area of the format information storage area 419 (step 514).
-3).

Next, when the number of digits is input from the keyboard 213 and the execution key is pressed, the input number of digits is stored in the format information storage area 419.
(Step 515).

Further, when the number of lines is inputted from the keyboard 213 and the execution key is pressed, the inputted number of lines is stored in the format information storage area 419.
(Step 516).

If the cancel key (on the keyboard 213) is pressed, the process proceeds to step 518, and if another key is pressed, the process returns to step 513 as designating format information on other print data (step 517).

In step 517, when the cancel key (on the keyboard 213) is pressed, the format information in the format information storage area 419 stored up to that time is associated with the corresponding print data and stored in a predetermined area of the document storage area 411. It is stored (step 518).

(Ii) Printing Based on Format Information of Print Data When print data is designated and its print instruction is given from the keyboard 213, the print data and the corresponding format information are read out from the document storage area 411, and Printing is performed on the basis of this.

In this case, since the print start position, print end position, number of digits, and number of lines are specified, the character interval and line interval are automatically determined.

Also, in order to prevent deviation due to a setting error of the printing paper in printing a plurality of sheets, the origin is designated for each sheet.

IV. Summary of Embodiment As described above, the print head 22
By actually moving 9, the origin, the print start position, the print end position, the number of digits, and the number of lines are designated and stored in the document storage area 411 in association with the print data. When printing, print data is printed based on the format information.

Therefore, the labor of the operator is reduced, and printing can be performed at an accurate position.

V. Modifications of the Invention In the above-described embodiment of the present invention, the information on the printing position is specified separately in the vertical and horizontal directions with respect to the printing paper. The head may be moved simultaneously with respect to the printing paper in the vertical and horizontal directions.

In “I. Correspondence between the embodiment and FIG. 1”,
Although the correspondence between the invention described in claim 1 and the embodiment has been described, the invention described in claim 1 is not limited to this, and it is easily understood by those skilled in the art that there are various modifications. You can infer it.

〔The invention's effect〕

As described above, according to the first aspect of the present invention, after the printing medium is set on the printing mechanism, the printing control means is set based on the printing position information obtained by arbitrarily specifying the printing origin on the printing medium. Since printing information is now performed according to 121,
Even if the set print medium is displaced from the proper set position, the print information is printed using a position arbitrarily specified in advance for the print information on the set print medium as a print reference position. The operator's labor when printing the position arbitrarily designated in advance as the printing reference position is reduced, and printing can be performed accurately.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the principle of a word processor with a printing apparatus according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a word processor with a printing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of a detailed configuration of information stored in a RAM, FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram of a procedure of a specification operation of format information, and FIG. 6 is a specification operation of a format information FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of a detailed procedure. In the figure, 111 is storage means, 113 is print information input means, 115 is print position information input means, 117 is print control means, 211 is CPU, 213 is a keyboard, 215 is a screen display device, 217 is an external input / output device, 219 is a dictionary ROM, 221 is a CG-ROM, 223 is a program RO
M, 225 is SP motor, 227 is LF motor, 229 is print head,
231 is LES sensor, 233 is PE sensor, 235 is RAM, 311 is SP motor control program, 313 is LF motor control program, 3
15 is a print head control program, 317 is a keyboard control program, 319 is other programs, 321 is a free format program, 411 is a document storage area, 413 is a SP motor rotation total counter, 415 is an LF motor rotation total counter, 417
Is a storage area for the origin, and 419 is a storage area for format information.

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] An origin input means for designating an arbitrary position on the print medium as an origin by moving a print head with respect to the print medium and storing information of the designated origin in a storage means; A print start position is designated by a print head moving operation, and information on a relative position of the print start position from the origin is obtained using the information on the origin and the information on the designated print start position and stored in the storage unit. A print start position input means, and a print end position specified by moving the print head with respect to the print medium; information on the origin; information on a print start position input by the print start position input means; A print end position input method for obtaining a relative position of the print end position from the print start position using information on the end position and storing the position in the storage unit. And print control means for printing print information on the print medium using information on a relative position of the print start position from the origin and information on a relative position of the print end position from the print start position. A printing control device, characterized in that: