JP3028812B2 - Printer device - Google Patents

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Description: BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to printing on recording paper by using print data output from at least one data output device, and printing the printed recording paper. The present invention relates to a printer device stored in a paper receiver. 2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there is a system in which print data output from a plurality of personal computers or the like is printed by a single printer. In this conventional printer, there is only one stacker for storing the printed recording paper, and therefore, output papers of a plurality of personal computers have been stored in a mixed manner. [0004] That is, there is a problem that each operator has to select a sheet output by himself / herself from a plurality of output sheets. [0005] In addition, when very similar data is output, there is a problem that the output paper is erroneously taken by a request from another personal computer. An object of the present invention is to make it possible to immediately take out a recording sheet required by an operator from a plurality of recording sheets printed by various print data. According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a printer connected to at least one data output device and provided with a plurality of paper receivers, wherein the at least one data output device is provided. Printing means for printing a plurality of print data output from the device on each recording sheet, determining means for determining the job number of each print data output from the data output device, and determining by the determining means Selecting means for selecting a paper receiver specified by the job number from among the plurality of paper receivers based on the job number of the print data thus obtained; and a recording sheet printed for each of the print data. Storage control means for controlling storage of the print data in a paper receiver selected based on the job number of the individual print data. I do. According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a printer connected to a plurality of data output devices and provided with a plurality of paper receivers, the storage device sequentially storing print data output from the plurality of data output devices. Means, a printing means for sequentially reading each print data stored in the storage means and printing it on each recording sheet, a determination means for determining a job number of each print data, and Selecting means for selecting a paper receiver specified by the job number from the plurality of paper receivers based on the job number of the print data; anda recording paper printed for each of the print data. Storage control means for controlling storage in each of the paper receivers selected based on the job number of each print data. Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a circuit diagram of an embodiment of the present invention. The output devices 1-1 to 1-3 are devices such as a word processor and a personal computer. Each operator inputs a print command when necessary, and adds print data to the output control circuit 2. Output control circuit 2
Determines the JOB number from the added data, and outputs to the selection control circuit 3 an occupation request signal for occupying a specific paper receiver, which will be described later. The selection control circuit 3 selects a paper receiver indicated by the occupation request signal applied from the output control circuit 2 and performs memory selection control for temporarily storing data. The output control circuit 2 outputs the applied print data to the memory distributor 5. Then, the memory distributor 5 stores the memories 4-1 to 4-4-instructed by the selection control circuit 3.
Select 3 and store it in the target memory. Generally, printing by a printer is slow, but output of print data is fast, and a request for print output is sometimes added. Therefore, even if output requests are simultaneously generated from the output devices 1-1 to 1-3, The data can be stored in the memory at a high speed in the order in which the output requests are added, and the output of the output devices 1-1 to 1-3, that is, the state does not deteriorate. On the other hand, from the selection control circuit 3, a control signal for instructing which of the memories 4-1 to 4-3 is to be selected is added to the memory selection circuit 6. The contents of the memory indicated by the signal are selected and output to the printer 7. Then, the printer prints the print data stored in the memory. As described above, a stacker selection signal for storing the print result in the paper receiver corresponding to the JOB number is added to the stacker control circuit 8, and the stacker control circuit 8 prints the print result to the specified paper receiver. The stacker select device 9 is driven to store the result.
By this driving, the stacker select device 9 stores the paper output from the printer 7 in the paper receivers 10-1 to 10-3 corresponding to the JOB number. As described above, in the embodiment of the present invention,
A plurality of output devices can be connected. The number of devices that can be connected is not limited to the number of memories 4-1 to 4-3. Is connectable. These managements are performed by the selection control circuit 3. For example, even during a printing operation in which the memory 4-1 selects the memory 4-1 and outputs the stored print data to the printer 7, a memory that does not store the print data when an output request is issued from another output device. Is selected by the memory sorter and stored. Then, when the above-described printing operation is completed, a memory is selected by the memory selection circuit 6 and the stored print data is printed. In the embodiment of the present invention, the number of paper receivers does not need to correspond to the number of output devices. For example, it is possible to provide many paper receivers. This is because the paper receiver selected by the stacker select device is selected in units of JOB numbers. By outputting a plurality of JOB numbers from one output device, the paper receiver is printed on the paper receiver in accordance with the job. This is because paper can be output. Conversely, even if the number of output devices is one, it is also possible to assign the same to a paper receiver in JOB units. According to the present invention, for each of a plurality of print data output from at least one data output device, or for each print data output from a plurality of data output devices, a printer data And a paper receiver specified by the job number is selected from a plurality of paper receivers based on the determined job number for each print data, and Since each printed recording paper is stored in the paper receiver selected based on the job number of the individual print data, even if a plurality of print data are printed, the operator is informed. If only the job number for each print data is known, the recording paper for printing the required print data It is immediately known whether the data is stored in the paper receiver. Only the paper receiver specified by the job number of the desired print data is checked from among the plurality of paper receivers, and the paper receiver is checked. It is only necessary to take out the recording paper, and the recording paper printed for each job number of the print data can be immediately obtained.

[Brief description of the drawings] FIG. 1 is a circuit configuration diagram of an embodiment. [Explanation of symbols] 2 Output control circuit 3 Selection control circuit 4 memory 5 Memory sorter 6. Memory selection circuit 7 Printer 8 Stacker control circuit 9 Stacker select device

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] A printer connected to at least one data output device and provided with a plurality of paper receivers, wherein a plurality of print data output from the at least one data output device is printed on each recording paper. printing means and said determining means for determining the job number of each print data output from the data output apparatus, the print data determined by said determining means jobs for
Based on the number , the job
Selecting means for selecting a paper receiver specified by a number ; storing each recording paper printed for each of the print data in a paper receiver selected based on the job number of the individual print data And a storage control means for controlling the printing apparatus. 2. Connected to multiple data output devices, multiple paper receivers
A printer apparatus provided with a respective print output from the plurality of data output devices
A storage unit for sequentially storing data; and sequentially reading each print data stored in the storage unit.
Printing means for taking out and printing on each recording paper;
Determining means for determining the job number of each print data
And the job of the print data determined by the determination means.
Based on the number, the job
Selecting means for selecting a paper receiver specified by a number, and each recording paper printed for each of the print data
Based on the job number of that individual print data
Storage that controls storage for each selected paper receiver
A printer device comprising: a control unit .