JPH01241614A - Printing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reduce data quantity, which are inputted from an external device, by equipping a processing registering means to register processing to the printing data to be inputted in advance, a deciding means to decide whether the printing data are the data to be processed or not and a data analyzing means to analyze the printing data based on decision. CONSTITUTION:A printing device equips a processing registering means 101 to register the processing to the inputted printing data in advance, a deciding means 102 to decide whether the printing data are the data, for which the registered processing is executed, or not and a data analyzing means 103 to analyze the printing data based on the decision. Thus, a command (registering command), which can be registered by a user in advance, is provided so that the specified processing can be executed to the specified data and function is provided to identify the specified data, which are registered out of the input data, to execute the designated processing and to print the data. Thus, the data to be inputted are simplified and the quantity of the input data can be reduced.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention relates to a printing device that prints out data on recording paper or the like in accordance with data manually input from an external device such as a host computer.

(Prior Art) As shown in the block diagram of FIG. 4, in a conventional printing device 1 of this type, data sent from an external device 2 such as a host computer is stored once in a reception buffer 4. The data analysis unit 5 extracts data from the reception buffer 4, analyzes the data, and then creates an analysis data buffer 6. According to the analysis data buffer 6, the output unit 8 outputs
For example, printing is performed on a recording medium 9 such as recording paper.

When a user wishes to perform processing such as emphasis, inversion of black and white, underlining, etc. on input data such as a character string, the processing shown in Fig. 5 is performed. The example of processing shown in FIG. First, the external device 2 transmits a black and white inversion start command 109 to the reception buffer 4, and then transmits data "ABC" 108. After transmitting the data "ABC" 108, a black and white inversion end command 11G is transmitted.

On the printing device l side, the data analysis section 5 instructs the output section to perform black and white reversal processing on the data "ABC" 108 sent between the black and white reversal start command 109 and the black and white reversal end command 110. 8. Create an analysis data buffer 6 as indicated in 8.

(Problem to be Solved by the Invention) However, in the conventional example described above, even if it is desired to perform the same processing on certain data every time, a processing start command and a processing end command are issued before and after the data each time. This has the disadvantage that the input data is complicated and the amount of data increases.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to eliminate the above-mentioned drawbacks and provide a printing device that can efficiently input data.

(Means for Solving the Problems) In order to achieve such an object, the present invention includes a process registration unit that registers in advance a process for input print data, and a process that should be performed after the print data is registered. It includes a determining means for determining whether or not it is data, and a data analyzing means for analyzing the print data based on the determination.

[For production]

According to the present invention, a command that can be registered in advance by a user (hereinafter referred to as a registered command) so as to perform a specific process on specific data, and identifying the registered specific data from input data, By providing a function to perform specified processing and print, it is possible to simplify input data and reduce the amount of input data.

(Example) Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

As shown in FIG. 1, the printing device according to the present invention includes a process registration means 101 that registers in advance a process for input print data, and a process registration unit 101 that registers in advance a process to be performed on input print data, and a process registration unit 101 that registers whether or not the print data is data that should be subjected to a certain process. It includes a determining means 102 that makes a determination, and a data analyzing means 103 that analyzes print data based on the determination.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the processing by the data analysis section 5 implementing the present invention.

When data is input from the external device 2 in step S1, the process moves to step S2, and it is checked whether the input data is a registration command. If it is a registration command, the process moves to step S3 and registration command processing is performed. In step S3, the specified data is designated as registration data, and the process to be performed on the registration data is designated as designated processing.
The data is written to the registered data table on the RAM of the data analysis section 5.

FIG. 3 shows an example of a registered data table when the character string "ABC" is registered to be inverted in black and white.

If it is determined in step S2 that the manual data is not a registered command, the process moves to step S4, and the registered data table is referred to to check whether the data is registered data. If the data is not registered data, the process moves to step S6, where normal analysis is performed and an analysis data buffer 6 is created. If it is determined in step S4 that the data is registered data, the process moves to step s5, and an analysis data buffer 6 is created to perform a designation process on the data.

By performing such control, if a specific process for specific data is registered in advance, the user can perform subsequent specific processing without having to send commands to start or end processing. All data can be printed out after the specified processing has been performed.

As another example, if the registration data "Xx" is entered manually as a specification process, "a"
bcdefghjj'' is considered to have been manually generated, it is possible to compress the amount of data when manually inputting the same data.

(Effects of the Invention) As explained above, in the present invention, there is a command that can register a specific process to be performed on specific data specified by the user, and a command that can register a specific process from human data according to the specification. Since we have provided a function to identify data, perform specified processing, and print it, it is effective in simplifying the data manually input from external devices and reducing the amount of data when manually inputting a large amount of the same data. .

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a basic configuration diagram of a printing device according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a flowchart of an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a registered data table of an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. , a block diagram showing the processing of a conventional printing device. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of the flow of data processing. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... Printing device, 2... External device, 4... Reception buffer, 5... Data analysis part, 6... Analysis data buffer, 8... Output part, 9... Recorded part Medium.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1) Process registration means for registering in advance a process for input print data; a determination means for determining whether the print data is data to be subjected to the process; and based on the determination and data analysis means for analyzing the print data.