JPH01214462A - Form overlay printing apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To perform overlay printing by synthesizing form data and processing data, by preliminarily printing the form data and subsequently returning the paper of a printing output apparatus to a predetermined printing line by a form overlay apparatus to print the processing data of processing program. CONSTITUTION:A form overlay control apparatus 6 accesses the form data group in a form data memory apparatus 4 by an access key 11 and transmits the accessed form data 5 to a printing output apparatus 7 to perform printing. After the printing of the form data 5 is finished, the form overlay control apparatus 6 continuously returns the paper of the printing output apparatus 7 to the first printing line performing the printing of processing data 3 and becomes a state waiting the transmission of the processing data 3 from a processing program 2. At this time, when the processing program 2 performs the issue of the processing data 3, the form overlay control apparatus 6 transmits said processing data 3 to the printing output apparatus 7 and superposes the same on the paper, on which the form data is printed previously, to print said processing data 3.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a form overlay printing device that has an improved print control mechanism when printing data in an information processing device.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, in this type of printing device, when printing processed data processed by an information processing device and format data consisting of ruled lines, index characters, etc. in an overlapping manner, the format data is transferred and stored in the printing device in advance. Next, when transferring the processed data, overlay printing is performed so that both data are combined and overlapped.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

In the conventional printing device described above, the format data is stored in the printer in advance, and each data is combined and printed when outputting the processed data, so it is difficult to store the format data on the printer side. This method requires a sufficient storage area and a control device for combining format data and processing data during printing, and has disadvantages in that the printing device is large-scale and expensive.

[Means to solve the problem]

The present invention provides an information processing apparatus having a processing program that issues an overlay print request command for printing format data and processing data in an overlapping manner, and storing format data;
A format data storage device that outputs predetermined format data according to an overlay print request command, and a format data storage device that prints format data on paper of a print output device using an overlay print request command, and returns the printed paper to a predetermined position for overlay printing. and a form overlay control device for controlling the print output device to print the processed data.

[Effect]

In the present invention, the format data is printed in advance, and then the paper of the print output device is returned to the predetermined print line using the format overlay device, and the processing data of the processing program is printed, so the format data and the processing data are combined. overlay printing.

〔Example〕

Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention.

In the figure, 1 is an information processing device that stores a processing program 2, 3 is processing data issued from the processing program,
4 is a format data storage device that stores the format data 5; 6 is a format overlay control device that performs combined printing control of the issued processing data 3 and format data 5 in response to an overlay print request command from the processing program 2; 7 is a format data storage device; This is a print output device that performs printing in response to a request from the overlay control device 6.

FIG. 2 shows the command format of an overlay print request issued by the processing program 2 in the information processing device 1.

In the figure, 10 is a print command, and 11 is an access key for accessing the form data 5 on the form data storage device 4.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of printing by the print output device 7. As shown in FIG.

(,) 12 in the figure shows a state in which format data has been printed, and 13 in FIG.

Next, the operation will be explained. First, when the processing program 2 issues a print request command 10 during the program processing, the format overlay control device 6 accesses the format data group in the format data storage device 4 using the access key 11, and stores the accessed format data 5. It is transferred to the print output device 7 and printed. The printing result at this time is state 12. After printing the format data 5, the format overlay control device 6 prints the processed data 3 on the paper of the print output device T.
The process returns to the first printing line where printing is performed, and waits for transfer of processing data 3 from processing program 2. At this time, when the processing program 2 issues the processing data 3,
The format overlay control device 6 transfers the processed data 3 to the printing output device 71C, and prints the processed data 3 on top of the paper on which the format data was previously printed.

In this way, in this embodiment, the format data 5 is printed in advance,
After that, the format overlay device 6 returns the paper in the print output device 7 to a predetermined print line and controls the processing data 3 of the processing program 2 to be printed, so that the format data 5 and processing data 3 are transferred as shown in state 13. can be combined and overlay printed.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, the present invention prints format data in advance,
Since the print output device is then controlled to print the processed data using the format overlay device, overlay printing of the format data and the processed data can be performed using an inexpensive print output device without using a large-scale printing device as in the past. This has the effect of making it possible.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG.
3(a) is a diagram showing the command format of the print request issued by the processing program 2.
) and (b) are diagrams showing examples of printing format data 5 and processing data 3 on the print output device T. 1... Information processing device, 2... Processing program,
3...Fist/processing data, 4...Format data storage device, 5...Format data, 6.φe/Format overlay control device, T...Print output device. Patent applicant: NEC Corporation

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] A printing device that performs overlay printing by superimposing format data consisting of ruled lines, heading characters, etc. and processing data, comprising: a print output device that prints format data and processing data on paper; an information processing device that has a processing program that issues an overlay print request command for printing processed data in an overlapping manner; a format data storage device that stores format data and outputs predetermined format data using the overlay print request command; and a format overlay control device that controls the printing output device to print format data on paper of the printing output device in response to an overlay print request command, return the printed paper to a predetermined position for overlay printing, and print the processed data. A form overlay printing device characterized by: