JPH02158371A - Document preparing apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To accurately apply printing to a strip like printing recording medium and to simply form a label of arbitray content by providing a ribbon cassette and the strip like printing and recording medium in a freely detachable manner and providing a printing recording medium feed apparatus for feeding out the strip like printing recoding medium at a constant speed. CONSTITUTION:A strip like printing recording medium 33 is mounted on a printer 23 and formed, for example, by laminating a strip like protective member, for example, strip like paper or plastic film subjected to releasable treatment to strip like printing paper or plastic film having an adhesive applied to the rear thereof and wound in a cylindrical shape. The strip like printing recoding medium 33 is held in a revolvable manner within a printing mechanism 25 and the leading end thereof is fed out at a constant speed by a recoding medium feed apparatus 26 having a medium running motor built therein. In this case, the recording medium feed apparatus 26 and the strip like printing recoding medium 33 are arranged in opposed relationship so as to interpose a printing head 28 therebetween and the recoding surface of the printing recording medium 33 fed out by the recoding medium feed apparatus 26 runs along the front surface of the printing head 28 through an ink ribbon 32.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Object of the Invention] (Industrial Application Field) The present invention relates to a document creation device having a printing function for printing on a strip-shaped print recording medium.

(Prior Art) Conventionally, when creating a strip-shaped printed matter such as a label using a document creation device (word processor), the following two methods have been used.

■ A4. A method of printing predetermined document information using a built-in printing mechanism (printer) that can print on large print paper such as B4 size, and then cutting the document to the desired size after printing.

■ Uses a small simple printing mechanism (handy printer) that is attached to the outside of the main unit that can only print one line, and prints document information on small label-like blank paper (unprinted paper) by manually moving the printer unit itself. How to create labels.

By using the above two methods (1) and (2), it is possible to make a strip-shaped printed matter such as a label. However, with method (■) above, it is mechanically impossible to print on small paper, and it is necessary to print on relatively large paper and then cut it into small pieces.
This was inconvenient if you wanted to make a small amount of labels. Also,
With method ①, it is possible to print on relatively small paper, but
Since it is manual, there is a problem in that printing straight along the center of a strip of paper or the like is difficult to handle unless you are used to it, and you are likely to fail.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) As described above, in conventional document creation devices, the printer mechanism built into the main body cannot print on strip-shaped media such as labels; Even if a simple printing mechanism is used, it is not possible to easily print on a strip-shaped medium, and there is a problem that strip-shaped printed matter cannot be efficiently produced.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and an object of the present invention is to provide a document creation device that can reliably and accurately print document information created in advance on a strip-shaped recording medium, and can efficiently create strip-shaped printed matter. With the goal.

[Structure of the Invention] (Means and Effects for Solving the Problems) That is, the present invention provides a document creation device equipped with a printer, which includes a printer head that is fixedly arranged, a strip-shaped print recording medium that is detachably provided, and a document production device that includes a printer. A print recording medium feeding device that causes a strip-shaped blank recording medium to travel at a constant speed through the printer head portion, an ink ribbon that is detachably provided and interposed between the printer head and the strip-shaped print recording medium, and the ink. The present invention is characterized in that the printer is configured with a ribbon winding means that winds up the ribbon at the same speed as the traveling speed of the strip-shaped print recording medium.

Further, the present invention is characterized in that a heat-sensitive coloring agent is applied to the recording surface of the band-shaped print recording medium instead of the ink ribbon.

Furthermore, the present invention is characterized in that an ink ribbon coated with a heat-melting ink is polymerized and used on a strip-shaped print recording medium.

With the above configuration, after creating a document,
When the printer is operated, document information is automatically printed on the strip-shaped print recording medium to create a label.

In addition, by applying a heat-sensitive coloring agent to the recording surface of a strip-shaped print recording medium, or by polymerizing an ink ribbon coated with heat-melting ink onto the strip-shaped print recording medium, a ribbon cassette is no longer necessary. , the printing mechanism is simplified.

(Example) Hereinafter, one embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the basic configuration of a document creation device.

In Figure 1, 10 is a microprocessor (CPU).
), 11 is a RAM accessed by the microprocessor-0, and 12 is a ROM.

A microprocessor (hereinafter referred to as CPU) 10 controls the entire device, and controls the RAM 11 and RO
By accessing M12 and starting a program according to input instructions, document creation processing, print control processing, etc. are executed. R.A.
The MII includes a document buffer area 11a, and also stores various control information such as a line image area (print buffer), non-character registration area, word registration area, and a cursor position register that stores the cursor position on the document display screen. It has a storage area. ROM12 is CPU10
A program area 13 that stores programs that determine the operation of the computer, print control processing programs, etc., and a character pattern area 1 that stores display or print character patterns, etc.
4. It has a dictionary area 15 in which various dictionaries for converting readings input in kana or Roman characters into kanji are registered.

Also, 16 is a keyboard (KB), 18 is a display, 21
23 is a printer, and 24 is a print control circuit. Keyboard (KB) 1B
manually inputs information necessary for document creation etc. to the CPU 10 via the keyboard interface (KB-IF) 17. This keyboard 16 includes, in addition to character keys, cursor keys, etc., a half-width specification key for switching the cursor range from full-width to half-width, and a "Hiragana" shift key, "Katakana" shift key, and "Katakana" shift key for switching the cursor range from half-width to full-width. Various function keys including a "Kanji" shift key, a print mode designation key, a print execution key, etc. are provided.

The display 18 is comprised of, for example, a 20-line liquid crystal display device. The display controller (display CNT) 19 is
The display of the display 18 is controlled using the display dot memory 20 under the control of the CPU10.

The floppy disk device 21 stores created documents and stores external characters, second level characters, etc. under the control of cPUlo via a disk interface (FDD-IF) 22.

The print control circuit 24 controls the operation of the printer 23 based on commands from the CPU10, and stores the document buffer area ILa in RAMII, which is created under the control of the CPU10.
The document stored in the floppy disk device 2I or the document information read into the document buffer area 11a from the floppy disk device 2I is printed. The printer 23 includes a print recording medium feeding device 26. Ink ribbon winding remoter 27. It is composed of a printer head 28 and the like, and details thereof will be described later. For example, a thermal head is used as the printer head 28.

The printer 23 is configured as shown in FIG.

A ribbon cassette 31 can be attached to and detached from the printer 23 as desired. When the ribbon cassette 31 is attached, a rill (not shown) on the ribbon winding side is connected to the drive shaft of the ink ribbon winding motor 27. 27a,
The motor 27 rotates in the direction of arrow a.

Further, a printer head 28 is fixedly arranged adjacent to the ribbon cassette 31 when installed, and this printer head 28 is
An ink ribbon 32 led out from the ribbon cassette 31 is positioned on the front surface of the ribbon 8. Further, a strip-shaped print recording medium 33 is attached to the printer 23 .

This strip-shaped print recording medium 33 is formed by overlapping a strip-shaped printing paper or plastic film coated with an adhesive on the back side with a strip-shaped protective member such as a strip-shaped paper or plastic film treated to be peelable, and is formed into a cylindrical shape. It is wrapped. The strip-shaped printing recording medium 33 is rotatably held within the printing mechanism section 25, and its leading end is sent out at a constant speed by a recording medium feeding device 26 having a built-in motor for driving the medium. In this case, the recording medium feeding device 2B and the strip-shaped printing recording medium 33 are arranged to face each other with the printer head 28 in between, and the recording surface of the printing recording medium 33 sent out by the recording medium feeding device 26 is connected to the printer head 2 with the ink ribbon 32 interposed therebetween.
It is designed to run in front of the 8.

Next, the operation of the above embodiment will be explained. keyboard (KB)
]-6 When you input data and create a document, RAM
Document information is stored in a document buffer area 11g within 1l. After creating the document, when the print mode is designated and the execution key is operated, a print start command is sent from the CPU 10 to the print control circuit 24. As a result, the print control circuit 24 starts a control operation, and drives the print recording medium feeding device 26 and the ink ribbon take-up motor 27 and drives the printer head 28 based on the document information held in the document buffer area 11a. do. As a result, the strip-shaped print recording medium 33 is first fed out at a constant speed, and the ink ribbon 32 of the ribbon cassette 31 is fed out at the same speed as the strip-shaped print recording medium 33. In this state, the printer head 28 is driven to print document data on the strip-shaped print recording medium 33.

The strip-shaped print recording medium 33 printed as described above can be used as a label by peeling off the protective member on the back side from the recording paper.

In the above embodiment, the ink ribbon 32 was used to print on the strip-shaped printing recording medium 33, but a heat-sensitive coloring agent was applied to the surface of the strip-shaped printing recording medium 33, and the strip-shaped printing was directly performed using a thermal head. Printing may be performed by coloring a heat-sensitive coloring agent on the recording medium 33. With this configuration, it is possible to print on the strip-shaped print recording medium 33 without using the ribbon cassette 31.

Further, in the embodiment shown in FIG. 2 above, the ink ribbon 3
2 was attached to the ribbon cassette 31, but other than that,
If an ink ribbon whose back surface is coated with heat-melting ink is rolled onto the band-shaped print recording medium 33 and integrated,
Any character can be printed on the strip-shaped print recording medium 33 without installing the ribbon cassette 31. In this case, by peeling off the ink ribbon and the protective member on the back side from the band-shaped print recording medium 33 after printing is completed, it can be used as a label.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, in a document creation device equipped with a printing mechanism section, a ribbon cassette containing an ink ribbon and a strip-shaped printing recording medium are removably provided in the printing mechanism section, and A print recording medium feeding device is provided to feed the strip-shaped print recording medium at a constant speed, and the print head prints on the strip-shaped print recording medium via the ink ribbon in the ribbon cassette based on document information created in advance. Therefore, printing can be performed accurately on the strip-shaped print recording medium, and labels with arbitrary contents can be easily created.

Further, the present invention uses a heat-sensitive coloring agent coated on the recording surface of the strip-shaped print recording medium instead of the ink ribbon,
Alternatively, by polymerizing and using an ink ribbon coated with heat-melting ink on a band-shaped printing recording medium, a ribbon cassette is not required, and the printing mechanism can be simplified.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of a document creation apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing details of a printing mechanism section of the embodiment. 10... Microprocessor (CPU) 11...
・RAM, ILa...Document buffer area, 12...
ROM. 13...Program area, 14...Character pattern area, 15...Dictionary area, 16...Keyboard (KB
), 17...Kiboard interface (KB-I)
F), 1B... Display device, 19... Display controller (display-CNT), 20... Display dot memory,
21... Floppy disk device (FDD), 22...
・・Disk interface (FDD-IF),
23...Printer, 24...Printing control circuit, 26.
. . . Print recording medium feeding device, 27 . . . Ink ribbon take-up motor, 28 . . . Printer head. Applicant's agent Patent attorney Takehiko Suzue

Claims (3)

[Claims] (1) In a document creation device equipped with a printer, the printer includes a printer head that is fixedly arranged, a strip-shaped print recording medium that is detachably provided, and the strip-shaped print recording medium that runs at a constant speed over the printer head portion. an ink ribbon that is removably provided and interposed between the printer head and the strip-shaped print recording medium; and an ink ribbon that is wound at the same speed as the running speed of the strip-shaped print recording medium. and a ribbon winding means for taking the document. (2) In a document creation device equipped with a printer, the printer includes a fixedly arranged thermal head, a removably strip-shaped print recording medium whose recording surface is coated with a heat-sensitive coloring agent, and a strip-shaped print record of the strip-shaped print recording medium. A document creation device comprising: a print recording medium feeding device that causes a medium to travel through the thermal head portion at a constant speed. (3) In a document creation device equipped with a printer, the printer includes a thermal head that is fixedly arranged, a strip-shaped print recording medium that is detachably provided, and a recording surface of the strip-shaped print recording medium that is superimposed on the recording surface of the strip-shaped print recording medium. A document creation device comprising: an ink ribbon whose surface is coated with heat-melting ink; and a print recording medium feeding device that causes the ink ribbon and the band-shaped print recording medium to travel at a constant speed through the thermal head portion. .