JPH02258300A - Tray type xy printer - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To print at any printing start position in any direction and to facilitate the printing control of an information processor by providing a printer device with a printing mechanism that can scroll horizontally and vertically and tray equipped with a sheet electrostatically sucking device. CONSTITUTION:The tray type XY printer employs a rectangular tray 5 equipped with a sheet electrostatically sucking device as a base, and a console panel 1 and a vertically scrolling 4 are provided on one side in the vertical direction to form the edge of the tray. The tray 5 equipped with the sheet electrostatically sucking device creates static electricity to fix a sheet 13. A printing head 3, a printing head moving rail 3, the vertically scrolling rail 4 and a vertically scrolling groove 14 compose a printing mechanism that can move in all directions. When coordinates of a printing start position and a printing direction are specified, the sheet 13 is printed at the position in a horizontal or vertical direction.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to an XY printer used in an information processing device or the like.

(Prior Art) Conventionally, when printing on paper, this type of printer moves the print head only in the horizontal direction and moves the paper in the vertical direction to determine the printing position and print. FIG. 2 is a perspective view of an example of a conventional printer. When paper is set on the vapor set guide 6 and the paper suction switch 7 is pressed, the paper is sucked by the paper feed mechanism 8 to the printing start position. When print data is sent from the information processing device, the print head prints while moving laterally. When the printing of that line is completed, the paper is moved by the operation of the paper feed mechanism 8 to the interval specified by the control code sent from the information processing device, and the next printing position is determined. This process was repeated to print data on a single sheet of paper.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

In the above-mentioned conventional printers, the paper can only move in one direction in the vertical direction and cannot be reversed.
When an information processing device sends data to a printer, it is necessary to rearrange the data so that it can be processed in one direction. In addition, since the paper is wound 1, 1 during paper feeding, it has the disadvantage that it is not possible to print on thick paper, etc.

Furthermore, when printing four types of formats as shown in Figure 3,
For forms 9 and 12, the paper had to be set in the printer device horizontally, and for forms 10 and 11, it had to be set vertically. Therefore, a printer that can print up to 80 pixels needs to have a width that allows A3 paper to be set horizontally, which has the disadvantage that the printer device becomes large.

Additionally, there are printers that can only set the maximum printable paper vertically; in this case, in order to print Forms 9 and 12, the information processing device must rotate the forms 90 degrees, and then send the data to the printer. Do you mean to send it? There was a problem in that it required rough control. Therefore, the present invention solves the above-mentioned drawbacks and problems, enables printing on thick paper, eliminates the need to re-set the printing paper horizontally or vertically depending on the paper size, and furthermore allows printing on thick paper depending on the printing format. An object of the present invention is to provide an efficient tray-type XY printer that does not require format rotation on an information processing device side.

[Means for Solving the Problems] The tray-type XY printer of the present invention includes a vertically and horizontally movable printing mechanism that prints by moving the print head in both vertical and horizontal directions, and an electrostatic paper suction device that fixes the printing paper using an electrostatic effect. Equipped with a paper tray with an electrostatic paper suction device.

[Effect]

In this way, it is equipped with a vertically and horizontally movable printing mechanism and a paper tray with an electrostatic paper suction device, and can print at any position on the paper fixed by the electrostatic paper suction device by simply specifying the print start position coordinates and printing direction. Prints in any direction vertically or horizontally.

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

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an embodiment of the tray type XY printer of the present invention. The tray-type XY printer of this embodiment uses a rectangular tray 5 with an electrostatic paper suction device as a substrate, and an operation panel 1 and a vertical movement rail 4 are integrated on one side of the tray in the vertical direction to form the edge of the tray. ing. In addition, on the other vertical side of the tray 5 with static electricity paper suction H1ffi,
A vertical movement groove 14 is provided to receive one end of a print head movement rail 3 for moving the print head 2 in the left and right lateral directions. The print head moving rail 3 is received by the vertical moving rail 4, and its both ends slide on the vertical moving rail 4 and the vertical moving groove 14, respectively, to horizontally move the tray 5 with the electrostatic paper suction device. Move vertically by 1° in both directions. Further, the operation panel 1 is provided with a power switch, a switch for starting/stopping the printer, a switch for an electrostatic paper suction device, and the like.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be explained.

The tray 5 with an electrostatic paper suction device fixes the paper 13 by generating static electricity. The print head 2, print head movement rail 3, vertical movement rail 4, and vertical self-movement groove 14 constitute a vertically and horizontally movable printing mechanism, and by specifying the coordinates of the printing start position and the printing direction, the print head can be moved to any position. Printing can be performed on the paper 13 in any vertical or horizontal direction.

FIGS. 3(a) to 3(d) show examples of printing in four types of formats by the tray-type XY printer of this embodiment. This shows that by combining the movements in both 7J directions, it is possible to easily print in four types of formats 9.10°11.12 as shown in Table 1.

It also prints easily on thick and hard paper.

Also, when the paper is set, the position where the paper is placed is adjusted, so there is no misalignment of the printing position due to setting errors, and the printing is performed accurately on the original paper.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, the present invention enables printing in any direction from any printing start position by equipping a printer with a vertically and horizontally movable printing mechanism and a tray with an electrostatic paper suction device, thereby simplifying printing control of an information processing device. The printer can print on any paper from thin to thick, the electrostatic paper suction device eliminates paper misalignment during printing, the tray type eliminates misalignment of print position due to paper setting errors, and the printer is small and lightweight. be converted into

There are other effects such as Song Dynasty.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of an embodiment of a tray type XY printer according to the present invention, Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a conventional printer, and Fig. 3 is a format. Format: (b) is the old format with paper direction horizontal and vertical writing; (C) is the paper direction vertical and horizontal writing format; (d) is the paper direction horizontal and horizontal writing format. 1... Operation panel, 2... Print head, 3... Print head movement rail, 4... Vertical direction movement rail, 5... Tray with electrostatic paper suction device, 6... Vapor set guide , 7...Paper suction switch, 8...Paper feeding mechanism, 9...Format (paper direction vertical, t!7i book) 10...Format (paper direction horizontal, vertical writing) 11...Format ( 12... Format (paper direction horizontal, horizontal) 13... Paper, 14... Vertical movement groove.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A paper tray with an electrostatic paper suction device having a vertically and horizontally movable printing mechanism that prints by moving the print head in both vertical and horizontal directions, and an electrostatic paper suction device that fixes the printing paper by an electrostatic effect. Tray type XY printer.