JPH01113258A - Printing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To allow replacement of forms of different sizes for printing by storing pattern information of at least two different sizes in a storage means and thereby selecting either one of the above-mentioned pattern information and form based on the vertical and horizontal sizes of tabulation data. CONSTITUTION:A form A is set in advance on a printing part 13. When a printing instruction is entered, the total number of columns of a single line of tabulation data in a page memory 17 and the total number of lines of the tabulation data are detected. Then these data are stored in TCOL and TLOW of RAM 16. When the number of characters (number of columns) in the lateral direction of the tabulation data is equivalent to less than the size of a form, and the number of lines to less than the size of a form, printing is performed on a set form A using an ordinary character size (pattern A). When the number of columns is equivalent to more than the size of the form A, printing can be performed on a form using a pattern B. When the number of lines of the tabulation data is equivalent to more than the size of a form, a form B which is larger than the form A is selected. Then printing is performed using characters of ordinary size, when printing can be performed using characters of the size selected for the form B, and printing is performed using a character pattern developed in pattern when lowercase letters are selected.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a printing device that has a tabulation function, and in particular, prints by selecting an appropriate font size and paper size based on the size of tabulation data. The present invention relates to a printing device.

[Prior art] Conventional printing devices that can print tabulation data print in a specified font size, so if, for example, a column in a table is too large to fit on the paper, However, because it was printed as is, the front was often cut off in the middle, or the shape of the front was distorted.

Furthermore, there are some machines that allow the operator to select the character size and paper size to be printed based on the size of the table, the size of the paper used for printing, etc., but these are all left to the operator's discretion.

[Problems to be solved by the invention] Therefore, the operator must perform calculations based on the physical paper size, character pitch, line pitch, number of characters in one line, number of lines in one page, etc. The operation was extremely troublesome, as it was necessary to decide on the font size and paper size, or to make a trial print on the paper, and then judge whether the font size and paper size were appropriate.

The present invention was made in view of the above-mentioned conventional example, and an object of the present invention is to provide a printing device that can automatically determine the character size and paper size based on the size of tabulation data and perform printing. do.

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to achieve the above object, the printing apparatus of the present invention has the following configuration. That is, it is a printing device that inputs document information as code information, develops a pattern, and prints it together with tabulation data, which includes a storage means for storing pattern information of at least two different sizes, and a storage means for storing pattern information of at least two different sizes. The present invention includes a printing unit capable of printing by replacing different sheets of paper, and a selection unit that selects at least one of the pattern information and the paper based on the vertical and horizontal sizes of tabulation data.

[Operation] With the above configuration, pattern information of at least two different sizes is stored in the storage means, and the printing means can exchange and print on at least two different sizes of paper. In this way, at least one of pattern information and paper is selected based on the vertical and horizontal sizes of the tabulation data to be printed,
The table data is automatically printed on the appropriate paper with the appropriate font size.

[Embodiments] Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

[Functional Description of Printing Apparatus (FIG. 1)] FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing a schematic configuration of the printing apparatus of this embodiment.

In the figure, 10 is a control unit that controls the entire printing apparatus;
The apparatus includes a ROM that stores the control program shown in the flowchart in the figure, and a CPU 15 such as a microprocessor that outputs various control signals according to the microcode in the ROM to control the operation of the apparatus. 16 is CPU
15 is used as a work memory, and a page memory 17 stores tabulation data and document data for at least one page, and T stores the number of columns of tabulation data.
The RAM 16 includes OOL, TLOW for storing the number of rows of table data, and the like. Reference numeral 14 denotes a character pattern generator 14 that stores character pattern information in correspondence with code information, and has at least two types of character patterns.
is character pattern information larger than pattern B, and pattern A is normally selected and output.

Reference numeral 11 denotes a display section for displaying table data, document information, various commands, etc. manually inputted from a keyboard 12, and is composed of, for example, a CRT or liquid crystal. 12 is a keyboard for inputting document data, tabulation data, various commands, etc.; Reference numeral 13 denotes a printing unit that can print tabulation data, document data, etc. in the page memory 17 by selecting paper A or paper B according to instructions from the control unit 10;
corresponds to A4 size paper, and paper B corresponds to B4 size paper.

In addition, in the printing unit 13 of this embodiment, paper A is printed with character size of pattern A, 40 columns (COL) x 36 lines (L
OW), the font size of pattern B is 60 C0LX
54 LOW can be printed, and on paper B, characters of pattern A character size of 50 COL x 45 LOW and pattern B character size of 75 COL x 67 LOW can be printed.

[Operation Description (FIG. 2)] FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the printing process in the Kinosuhe example printing apparatus, and this program is activated by a print start instruction from the keyboard 12. In addition, before starting this program, the page memory! It is assumed that tabulation data to be printed has already been stored in 7, and paper A has been set in the printing section 13 in advance.

When a print instruction is input manually, the process proceeds to step s1, where the total number of RAMs per line of tabulation data in the page memory 17 and the total number of lines of tabulation data are detected and stored in the RAM 16 (7).
Store in TCOL and TLOW.

In step S2, the size of the paper (paper A) set in the printing section 13 is detected. In step S3, TCO
The number L is compared with the maximum number of characters in the horizontal direction that can be printed on paper A ("4o" in this embodiment), and it is determined whether the number is less than that.

If the number of characters (number of columns) in the horizontal direction of the tabulation data is less than the paper size, proceed to step s4, and check whether the number of rows in the vertical direction of the tabulation data is less than or equal to the size of paper A ("36" in the embodiment). . In this way, if the number of lines is less than or equal to the paper size (36), the process advances to step s5, and the currently set paper A
, print in the normal character size (pattern A).

On the other hand, if the number of columns is equal to or larger than the size of paper A in step S3, the process proceeds to step S6, and it is determined whether the character size of pattern B can be stored in paper A. If pattern B can be printed on paper A, the process advances to step S4, where the number of lines is compared.

If the number of rows of the tabulation data is equal to or larger than the paper size in step S4, the process advances to step S8, and paper B, which is larger than paper A, is selected. Then, it is checked whether printing is possible on paper B with the selected character size. If printing is possible, proceed to step s8 and print on paper B in normal font size, or in step s6.
When lowercase letters are selected in , printing is performed using the character pattern developed in pattern B.

If printing in the character size selected in step S7 is not possible, the process proceeds to step s9 to see if it is possible to print on paper B with lowercase letters developed in pattern B. If lowercase letters can be printed, proceed to step s1o and set the character code to pattern B.
Develop the pattern and print. In addition, when printing in lowercase letters, it goes without saying that the print pitch and line pitch are changed in accordance with the character size. On the other hand, if printing is not possible even with lowercase letters, the process proceeds to step Sll, where a message about the printing load is output to the display section 11 or the like, and the process ends.

Incidentally, instead of outputting the unprintable message in step S12, the tabulation data in the page memory 17 may be divided into several sheets of A4 size paper A and printed in the normal character size (pattern A). .

[Description of Printing Example (FIG. 3)] FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of table data printed according to this embodiment.

31 in Figure 3 (A) is the normal font size and paper A (A4
Figure 3 (B) shows a paper printed on paper (size paper), with more columns than paper 31, and a smaller font size.
It is printed using the character pattern of pattern B. Further, FIG. 3(C) is printed by selecting paper B (84 size paper) which has more lines than paper 31 and whose paper size is larger than paper A.

As described above, in this embodiment, when the number of columns of tabulation data cannot fit on paper A with the normal font size (pattern A), printing is performed with the font size reduced (pattern B), and the vertical direction is If the number of items (number of lines) does not fit on paper A, change the paper size to, for example, 84 size and print.If printing is not possible even after reducing the font size, increase the paper size. If you cannot print on the paper even after changing to paper B because the number of lines is too large, reduce the size of the character pattern further (changing from pattern A to paper B). B).

In this example, the paper size is A4 size and 84 size.
fffi class, and the character pattern size is set to two types, pattern A and pattern B, but it is not limited to this, and it is of course possible to switch and use more pattern sizes and paper sizes. be.

Also, if the ruled line part of the tabulation data is treated as characters, it is necessary to add the number of characters of the ruled line data to the number of characters in the horizontal direction (number of columns) and the number of characters in the front direction of the tabulation data. Since the ruled line data is processed as independent data determined based on the character position of the document data, the ruled line data part is not taken into consideration.

As explained above, according to this embodiment, after tabulation data is created, the font size and paper size can be automatically determined and printed according to the size of the tabulation data. This has the effect that appropriate print output can be made without having to determine the paper size, character size, etc. by calculation or the like based on the size of .

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, according to the present invention, the paper size and the size of characters to be printed are automatically determined in accordance with the tabulation data, and the tabulation data is printed. This has the effect of saving the operator's effort when printing table data.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the schematic configuration of the printing device of the embodiment, FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the printing process of tabulation data in the printing device of the embodiment, and FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of printing according to the embodiment. be. In the figure, 10...control unit, 11...display unit, 12...
・Keyboard, 13...Printing section, 14...Character pattern generator, 15...CPU, 16...RAM, 1
7...Page memory. (A) (9) (C) Figure 3

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] A printing device that inputs document information as code information, develops a pattern, and prints it together with tabulation data, comprising: a storage means for storing pattern information of at least two different sizes; a printing device capable of printing by exchanging paper of different sizes; and a selection device that selects at least one of the pattern information and the paper based on the vertical and horizontal sizes of tabulation data. .