JPH02196679A - High speed printer - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To perform a high speed printing and to solve a restriction in the performance of printing of a computer by simultaneously printing one book at page unit by two or more printers connected to the computer. CONSTITUTION:An information processor 11 stores a processing program 12, and a printing data storage unit 13 stores printing data group 14. A print controller 15 controls to print printing data according to a print request issued by the processing program 12. Two or more printers 16, 17, 18 print page units by a request from the print controller 15. A sheet combiner 19 combines printed sheets by the printers 16, 17, 18 in the order of the pages as one book.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] [Industrial applicability! ! ? ] The present invention relates to a high-speed printing device, and more particularly to a high-speed printing device for printing data in data processing of an electronic computer.

[Prior Art] Conventionally, when printing data using an electronic computer, even if one form spanned multiple pages, it was serially printed using one printer.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] In the conventional printing devices described above, the printing speed is limited by the printing speed of one printing device, so the performance of a computer that performs high-speed processing is limited by the printing process. There are drawbacks.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a high-speed printing device that improves the above-mentioned drawbacks by simultaneously printing one document page by page using two or more printing devices connected to a computer.

[Means for Solving the Problems] The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and as a means for solving the problems, the present invention provides a patented program characterized by print processing in a printing device of a computer system; a print data storage device that stores print data; and a print control device that reads the print data from the print data storage device according to a request from the processing program and sequentially sends the print data page by page to two or more printing devices. , two or more printing devices that print the sent print data, and a paper merging device that engages the printed sheets in page order.

[Example 1 Next, an example of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

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

In the figure, 11 is an information processing device, 12 is a processing program, 13 is a print data storage device, 14 is a print data group, 15 is a print control device, 16°, 17, 18 is a printing device, and 19 is a paper merging device. .

The information processing bag 2i11 stores the processing program 12,
The print data storage device 13 stores a print data group 14.

The print control device 15 then controls printing of print data according to the print request issued by the processing program 12.

Also, two or more (three in this embodiment) printing devices 16.
17 and 18 perform page-by-page printing processing in response to a request from the print control device 15.

Furthermore, the paper merging device 19 is connected to the printing device 16°17.18.
The printed sheets are merged in page order to form one form.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing the command format of a print request issued by the processing program 12, which includes a print command 21 and an access key 22 to the print data group 14 on the print data storage device 13.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing the format of one print data of the print data group 14, which includes the access key 31 from the processing program 12 and the page--
It includes print page information 32 such as 1-labeled information and print data 33.

Here, when the processing program 2 issues a print request command 21 during processing, the print control device 15 transfers the print data group 14 in the print data storage bag Ztla to the access key 2.
2, the print data matching the access key 31 is found, and the first page of print data 33 is transferred to the printing device 16 according to the print page information 32.

Next, the print data 35 for the second page is sent to the printing device 17 according to the print page information 34, the print data 37 for the third page is sent to the printing device 18 according to the print page information 36, and the print data 37 for the fourth page is sent to the printing device 16, The fifth page is transferred to the printing device 17 one after another up to the final page, and at this time, the printing bags at16, 17.18 transfer the print data 33, 35, 37. , , are sequentially printed, and the printed sheets are transferred page by page to the sheet merging device Wi19.

Then, the paper merging device 19 that received the printed paper is
Printed sheets are merged in page order to complete one form.

[Effects of the Invention] As previously explained, the high-speed printing device of the present invention includes a processing program that requires the printing device of an electronic computer system to perform print processing, a print data storage device that stores print data, and a print data storage device that stores the print data. a print control device that reads the print data from the print data storage device according to a request from a program and sequentially sends the print data page by page to two or more printing bags δ; and two devices that print the sent print data. Since the configuration includes the above-described printing device and a paper merging device that engages the printed sheets in the order of the pages, it is possible to simultaneously print one form page by page with the printing device of two carts-h.
As a result, there is an effect that the performance constraints of the print processing of the computer system can be solved by reducing the high-speed printing processing.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing the command format of a print request issued by a processing program, and FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing the format of print data. be. 11: Information processing device 12: Processing program 13: Print data storage near 14: Print data group 15: Print control device 16 to 18: Between printing and 19: Paper merging device

Claims (1)

[Claims] A processing program that requires a printing device of a computer system to perform print processing, a print data storage device that stores print data, and two or more devices that read the print data from the print data storage device according to a request from the processing program. a printing control device that sequentially sends printing paper page by page to a printing device; two or more printing devices that print the sent print data; and a paper merging device that combines the printed sheets in page order. A high-speed printing device comprising: