JPH02112975A - Slip issuing machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve an operating efficiency by registering the feeding amount of a printer corresponding to the operating amount of a correction key and a sheet feeding mechanism as a correction value, and executing the correction of the home position of the printer and the correction of the sheet feed of a printing on and after second slip sheets. CONSTITUTION:A control program is stored in a ROM 4, a CPU 1 executes the program by keying operation to control the movement of a printing head and the feeding of a sheet, thereby so regulating a printing position as to print in a normal state in a print column of a slip sheet. Simultaneously, operation information by the keying operation is fetched as a correction value by a correcting program provided separately from the control program, and the correction value is stored in the header of a business program. Thereafter, it is referred to add the correction value to the set value in the original business program to correct the head and the feeding amount to be so controlled as to eliminate a printing deviation.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a slip issuing machine that issues slips using commercially available slip paper.

[Prior art] A slip issuing machine is a slip issuing machine that sequentially prints necessary information on slip paper on which ruled lines, various item fields, opening space, customer name entry field, etc. are printed in a predetermined format, and issues the slip. The printing position of each slip is stored, and when actually printing on a slip, the paper feed and print head position are controlled according to the printing position, and the printing operation is performed.

However, it is generally unavoidable for slips to have printing misalignment and cutting misalignment, and these phenomena vary depending on the loft. Therefore, even if you set a certain slip paper and set the print position, when you set another slip paper of the same format, the actual printing position and the memorized position for this slip paper will be different. This means that the actual printing will be misaligned with respect to the printing field on the slip paper.

In such a case, the slip paper is moved left or right by the amount of deviation so that it is printed at the desired position. For example, vertical misalignment was adjusted by rotating the platen of the printer section, and horizontal misalignment was adjusted by moving the printer's slip paper guide to move the slip paper set position in the printer left and right.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] In this way, the slip issuing machine that prints the necessary information on the printed slip paper and issues the slip remembers the printing position of the slip and prints it on the slip. When printing, the paper feed and print head position are controlled according to the printing position, and the printing operation is performed. However, in general, even if the form of the form of slip paper is the same, the position of the printed field may vary depending on the lot due to printing misalignment or cutting misalignment. Therefore, when a new slip paper is set, the actual printing position and the memorized position on the slip paper will be different, and the actual printing will be misaligned in the printing field. Become.

In such a case, the slip paper is moved by the amount of deviation so that it is printed at the desired position. With this, the position of the slip paper must be corrected every time a new slip is set, and furthermore, the paper position must be finely adjusted based on the condition after printing. It is troublesome because it has to be done, and the adjustment has to be repeated frequently while checking the situation frequently, which has the disadvantage of impairing work efficiency.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Therefore, it is an object of the present invention to provide a slip issuing machine that can easily correct the printing position for this printing field and improve work efficiency.

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to achieve the above object, the present invention is configured as follows. That is, a slip issuing machine that sets the printing position, paper feed amount, etc. in advance to perform predetermined printing in each printing field on a standard form slip paper, and controls the printing section and paper feeding mechanism section according to the settings. a correction key for correcting the print position; and means for controlling the feed of the printing unit and the paper feed mechanism in accordance with the operation amount by operating the correction key;
The printing unit and paper feeder (1) correspond to the amount of operation of the correction key.
The apparatus comprises a registration means for registering the feed amount as a correction value, and a means for performing stiffness correction and invalidating the correction execution upon receiving an invalidation command.

[Function] In such a configuration, the correction key, that is, -1
When a correction command is given to the position of the printing section and the feed of the paper feed mechanism using the correction keys that command movement in the downward, left, and right directions, these will move by the amount of operation, and this correction amount will be memorized. From printing for the second slip, the printing position is corrected by this correction amount so that printing can be performed in a normal state even if the printing field is misaligned due to paper change. Therefore, even if the printing position shifts when changing slip paper, it can be corrected so that the printing position is in the correct position by operating the correction key, and this correction amount is automatically memorized and used when processing the second sheet of paper. Since it becomes effective when entering the document, even though the -th slip remains misaligned, you can use this slip to perform correct alignment, and this -th slip will not be misaligned. Even if there is a problem, the printing will not be disturbed by the alignment work, so there will be no misspelling, there will be no waste in issuing slips, and the work efficiency will be increased because the position can be corrected by key operation.

Therefore, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide a slip issuing machine that can easily correct the print position in the print field and improve work efficiency.

[Example 1] An example of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the configuration of a slip issuing machine according to the present invention. This device includes a keyboard 2, a display 6, a printer 9, and an external storage device such as a floppy disk drive.
It is of typewriter type with o.

FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of this device. In the figure, 1 is a CPU that controls the entire device, 2 is a keyboard, 3 is a keyboard controller that transmits the operation input of this keyboard 2 to the CPUI, and 4 is a high-level language for programming for printing slips and a computer for human/output. A ROM that stores programs to be executed by the CPU such as control programs, etc. 5 is a target slip (by business) created by the user using the above high-level language.
RAM that stores business programs, data, etc.

For example, 6 is a dot matrix type liquid crystal display, 7 is a display controller that controls the display of this display 6, 9 is a printer, 8 is a printer controller that controls this printer 9, 10 is an external storage device, 1
Reference numeral 1 denotes an external storage device controller that controls reading/writing, etc. of this external storage device.

This slip issuing machine prints on a standard slip form using data in the RAM 51 or data input from the keyboard 2 while the CPU executes programs in the RAM 5 and ROM 41 to issue slips.

Prior to this, in this device, the position of the printing column on the slip paper and the data to be printed there are specified in correspondence with the type of slip, and a program for printing is inputted from the keyboard 2 and created.

This program is similar to the description example shown in Figure 4,
rA- Check the printing position on the paper (execute) l-r Check the printing position 1g on the paper (execute)” message display,
"P'Year, Month, Day'" - Print date, rPD POJ → Print data Import PO, rp - Customer code - POJ
- Print the print data PO as the customer code.

This program has key manual commands and print commands as commands.

When the CPU executes the program with the description example shown in Figure 4, the first thing that appears on the screen of the display 6 is "
"Check the print position on the paper (Execute)" is displayed. In order to confirm the alignment of the print head, the printer 9 is provided with a temporary ribbon guide B on the front side of the print head A, as shown in FIG. The ribbon guide B has a print position window C that indicates the print start position when the print head A is at the home position.
is perforated so that the print start position can be known. Fig. 5 is a front view of the printing head A. In this case, the window provided at the right end of the printing head A is the printing position window C, which can be checked from here, so for example, If the standard slip form is as shown in Figure 1O, check the positional relationship by using the frame of the printing field, ruled lines, etc., and if the position is correct, press the execution key. Even if the slip paper is of the same format, if the printing position has shifted due to reasons such as switching to a different roll (or different bundle), the keyboard 2 of this device will Using the fine adjustment key Kl provided in and operate as follows.

First, if the printing position appears to be farther than the normal position, the paper must be back-feeded downward. To do so, press 4 on the up arrow key. The control program is configured so that when you press 4 on this up arrow key, a backfeed of 176 inches is performed, and the
The control program is configured so that the backfeet is performed in units of 17120 inches each time 1 is pressed and 4 is pressed on the up arrow key.

Next, when the printing position appears to be above the normal position to be printed, the slip paper must be fed upwards. To do this, press the up arrow key and the 5 or 1 current key K.
[ and press 5 on the up arrow key to adjust. The amount of adjustment per time by this key operation is 1/G inch for the former and 172 for the latter.
The control program is configured so that the distance is 0 inches.

If the printing position appears to be to the left of the desired printing position, the print head A of the printer 9 must be moved to the right. To do so, press 2 on the right arrow key. Is the control program configured so that each time this key is pressed, print head A moves to the right by an amount equivalent to one character?
The control program is configured so that pressing 1 and 2 on the right arrow key causes rightward movement in units of 1/180 inch.

If you think that the printing position is to the right of the position to be printed, press 3 on the left arrow key, or press 1 on the fine adjustment key and 3 on the left arrow key. As a result, the control program is configured such that in the former case, the left movement is performed in units of 17,180 inches, and in the latter case, the left movement is performed in units of 17,180 inches. These control programs are stored in ROM4, and the CP
The UI executes this control program, controls the movement of the print head A and the paper feed, and adjusts the print position on the slip paper so that the print field is printed in the correct condition. , At the same time, the operation information obtained by pressing the "2" key is taken in as a correction value by a correction processing program provided separately from the control program, and the correction value is stored in the header portion of the business program. From now on, refer to this and add these correction amounts to the settings in the original business program to correct the print head and paper feed amount, and control so that there is no printing misalignment. become. In addition, in this device, after correcting this positional deviation,
If you input the command "Correction Enable" (execute correction when printing) from the keyboard 2, print head control and paper feed control with the correction amount added will be immediately executed from this point.
Printing will be performed in the adjusted state, but if you do not input the command, the correction will be canceled for the first slip and will become effective from the second slip.
If the command "invalidate correction" is input, this correction will be ignored, and print head control and paper feed control will be performed without adding any correction. With this, when a positional shift occurs as a result of printing on a different paper, the positional shift is corrected, but this is done by key operation while checking the printing condition, so it is possible to correct the positional shift when printing on a different paper. Initially, there is a misalignment, so from the point of view of overall balance, it is practical to disable the correction for that slip and print with the misalignment, and then enable the correction for the next slip. law becomes possible.

FIG. 6 shows a flowchart of the operation during adjustment.

In other words, when the keyboard 2 is operated, the CPU performs correction processing if the operated key is the fine key Kl, the right arrow key 2, the left arrow key 3, the up arrow key 4, or the up arrow key 5. is valid or not (Sl
, S2). This is determined to be valid by specifying a correction moto prior to correction, and becomes invalid if the specification is canceled.

As a result, if the correction is effective, S3. S5゜S7. Fly to one of S9. First, if the printing position seems to be above the normal position, the up arrow key or the fine adjustment key and the up arrow key are pressed in order to feed the paper upward, so pressing the up arrow key 178 inch front.Next, the correction value corresponding to this key operation is cumulatively set as an addition value in the vertical correction area in the header portion of the business program (S4), and the process returns to the beginning of the manual key operation routine. Also, if you think that the printing position is below the correct position, press the up arrow key or the fine adjustment key and the up arrow key to backfeed the slip paper.
By pressing this up arrow key, a 1IO inch backfit is performed, and by pressing the fine adjustment key and up arrow key, a 1IO inch backfit is performed.
A backfeed of 0 inch is performed (S5). Next, the correction value corresponding to this key operation is cumulatively set as a subtraction value in the vertical correction area in the header portion of the business program (S6), and the process returns to the previous key manual routine.

If you think that the print position is to the left of where it should be printed, press the right arrow key to move the print head to the right. Press the arrow key to move 1/180 inch to the right (S9>. Next, set the correction value corresponding to this key operation as an additional value in the horizontal correction area in the header part of the business program. 5IO), key Return to the beginning of the human routine. Also, if you think that the print position is to the right of the desired position, because you are pressing the left arrow key or the fine adjustment key and the left arrow key, move the print head to the left by an amount equivalent to one character. When the fine adjustment key and the left arrow key are pressed, it is moved 1/180 inch to the left (S7).

Next, the correction value corresponding to this key operation is cumulatively set as a subtraction value in the horizontal correction area in the header part of the business program, and the process returns to the beginning of the key manual routine.

At the same time as the adjustment is made in this way, the correction value 2 setting is automatically performed. If a command to invalidate the correction work is given, the correction work will be invalidated and print position adjustment input will no longer be accepted.

When adjustments are made using the method described above, the correction values are stored in the header of the business program. As shown in FIG. 7, the correction value storage area includes dedicated areas (vertical correction area, horizontal correction area) in the header section of the business program for one business and one slip.

When the correction work is completed, unless a correction enable (correction execution) command is given, the correction is ignored for the -th slip, the position of print head A is returned to its original home position, and the business program Print head and paper feed control are performed using standard values set in . Then, when the second slip is processed, the correction becomes effective, and from then on, the correction amount described in -L is corrected against the standard value set in the business program, and the print head is And performs paper feed control.

In the above explanation, we have shown how to correct the misalignment between the printing position of the actual slip and the program.However, how to correct this when printing the second and subsequent sheets of the same slip. Indicates whether it is reflected.

To explain with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 8, as shown in FIG. 8(a), when paper is sucked, only the correction value is fed after sucking. In key manual labor and printing, Figure 8 (
As shown in b) and (c), a correction value is added when the head moves laterally.

Validity/invalidity of the correction function can be set by manually issuing a command as shown in FIG. 9, for example, but when the correction is valid, the correction in the flowchart of FIG. 7 is valid, and head movement and feeding are performed.

If it is necessary to return the correction value to 0 when modifying a business program, this slip issuing machine should be equipped with an editor that can edit the program shown in Figure 4, and each print, manual head position, etc. should be able to be freely modified.

In this way, this device sets the printing position, paper feed amount, etc. in advance to print the specified print in each print field on standard slip paper, and controls the printing section and paper feeding mechanism section according to the settings. In the slip issuing machine according to the present invention, there is provided a pressure compensation key for correcting the printing position, a means for controlling the feeding of the printing section and the paper feeding mechanism in accordance with the operation amount by the operation of the correction key, and an operation port for the correction key. A registration means for registering the corresponding printing unit and the second feed of the paper feeding mechanism as a correction value, and correcting the home position of the printing unit and correcting the paper feed when printing slip paper M by the registered correction amount. The present invention also includes means for invalidating correction execution upon receiving an invalidation command. Then, when a correction command for the print head and paper position is given using the correction key that commands movement in the up, down, left, and right directions, these will move by the amount of operation,
In addition, this correction amount is stored, and the printing position is corrected by this correction amount from the printing of the second slip, so that printing can be performed in a normal state even if the position of the printing field is misaligned due to paper changes. It is something.

Therefore, even if the print position is misaligned when changing slip paper, you can correct the print position to the correct position by operating the correction key, and this correction opening is automatically memorized and used when processing the second sheet of paper. Since it becomes effective when entering the document, even though the -th slip remains misaligned, you can use this slip to perform correct alignment, and this -th slip will not be misaligned. Even if there is a problem, the printing will not be disturbed due to the alignment work, so there will be no misspelling, and there will be no waste in issuing slips, and since the position can be corrected with a key operation, work efficiency will be increased. Therefore, according to this device, it is possible to easily correct the printing section 14 with respect to the printing field by simply operating the keys, and work efficiency can be improved.

[Effects of the Invention] As described in detail above, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide a slip issuing machine that can easily correct the printing position with respect to the printing field and improve work efficiency.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing the external appearance of the device, FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of key arrangement on the keyboard of the device, and FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the device. Figure 5 is a front view showing the structure of the printing unit used in this device, Figure 6 is a flowchart showing the procedure for correction work using keys, and Figure 7 is a diagram showing the business program and correction value storage. A diagram showing the relationship between areas, FIG. 8 is a flowchart explaining correction processing when paper is replaced, FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of the correction a enable/disable command, and FIG. 1O is a diagram showing an example of the format of standard slip paper. It is. 1... CPU, 2... Keyboard, 3... Keyboard controller, 4... ROM, 5... RAM. 6...Display, 7...Display controller, 9...Printer, 8...Printer controller, 10...External storage device 5.11...External storage device controller, A...Print head , B... Ribbon guide, E... Ink ribbon, C... Print position window, K
l...Fine adjustment key, K2...Right arrow key, K3...
Left arrow key 4...Up arrow key, K5...Down arrow key Applicant's agent Patent attorney Takehiko Suzue 5S- Near, 4 Country D Bi〉41 Cf2 1 A': LH paper = te 5 z z7 diagram (a) (b) (c)

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] The printing position, paper feed amount, etc. are set in advance so as to perform predetermined printing in each print field on a standard slip form, and the printing unit and the paper feed mechanism are controlled according to the settings. A slip issuing machine according to the present invention includes: a correction key for correcting the print position; a means for controlling the feed of the printing unit and paper feed mechanism in accordance with the operation amount of the correction key; A registration means for registering the feed amount of the printing unit and the paper feed mechanism as a correction value, and correction of the home position of the printing unit and paper feed correction for printing on the second and subsequent sheets of slip paper by the registered correction amount. A slip issuing machine characterized by comprising means for disabling correction execution upon receipt of an invalidation command.