JPH0239959A - Document preparation device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To make possible the instantaneous identification of the type of a ribbon cassette to be required during ribbon replacement by designating the color of printed characters in units of characters and displaying a printing color mark designated for printed characters. CONSTITUTION:If a cursor is moved to the head of a character row, the color of which is to be designated, in a document and 'color designation' key is pressed during the preparation of a document using a display device, a color selection menu is displayed. Then if a control character for a printing color to be designated is selected and 'selection/execution' key on a keyboard 14 is pressed, a mark to indicate a designated printing color (color control code) is displayed at the head of a character row of document to be designated for desired color within a documentary region. After this, if 'golden' mark (color control code), for instance, is entered at the head of the first line 'HAPPY...PARTY', each character of 'HAPPY...PARTY' is designated as those to be printed in golden color. In the same way, each character of a sentence in the second line is designated to be printed in black color, while a male name is designated to be printed in blue color and a female name in red color.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Object of the Invention (Industrial Application Field) The present invention relates to a document creation device suitable for color printing using a ribbon cassette.

(Prior Art) Ribbon cassettes used in document creation devices to print created documents include, for example, "black", "red", "blue", "green", "gold", "silver", etc. There are a number of different colored ribbon cassettes, which can be used optionally to print in color.

By the way, conventionally, when performing multicolor printing using such a plurality of ribbon cassettes, a "print designation" function of line modification has been used. This is a function that stops printing after printing a specified line, and by using this function, it is possible to perform multicolor printing by replacing the ribbon cassette/soto when printing is stopped.

However, although this method is effective for multi-color printing in line units, for example, the first line is black, the second line is red, and the third line is blue, for example, the first line is black and the second line is blue. There is a drawback in that it is difficult to print in multiple colors as a character unit, such as red for the first line and blue for the third line. In addition, when replacing the ribbon, the ribbon cassette must be replaced under the operator's own control, so the required ribbon cassette and
There is a drawback that the Soto species cannot be immediately determined.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) As described above, conventionally, in a configuration in which printing is stopped after each line is printed, and the ribbon cassette is replaced under the operator's own control for multicolor printing, the ribbon cassette is replaced. There was a drawback that it was not possible to immediately determine the type of ribbon skein or soto that was sometimes required.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a document creation device that can instantly determine the type of ribbon cassette required when replacing the ribbon.

[Structure of the Invention] (Means for Solving the Problems) That is, a document creation device according to the present invention is a document creation device that performs color printing by optionally using ribbon cassettes of a plurality of different colors. The printing color of the printed characters is designated in the document area, and a mark of the designated printing color is displayed in the document area in correspondence with the printed characters.

(Function) According to the above configuration, since the specified print color is displayed in the document area, it is possible to immediately determine the type of ribbon cassette required when replacing the ribbon.

(Embodiment) Hereinafter, a document creation device according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the circuit configuration, and the CPU10, which controls the entire apparatus, is the color printing control section 1.
1. It includes a printer control section I2 and a display control section 13.

The color printing control unit 11 inputs the print color of the print character specified for each character using the keyboard 14 through the key control device 15, and places a mark of the specified print color in the document area in correspondence with the print character. Controls color printing of documents stored in the document memory 16, such as displaying them within the document memory 16.

The printer control unit 12 includes a line buffer,
The printer device 17 is driven under the control of the color printing control section 11. This printer device 17 has "black", "red",
Color printing is performed by loading various ribbon cassettes such as "blue", "green", "gold", and "silver". The display control unit 13
The display device 18 is driven under the control of the color printing control section 11. This display device 18 displays the created document and displays menus, messages, etc. necessary for color printing.

Next, before explaining the operation of this embodiment, the color printing procedure of the present invention will be explained with reference to FIG. 5 to facilitate understanding.

FIG. 5(a) is a diagram showing an example of a display screen when specifying a color. While creating a document, move the cursor to the beginning of the character string in the document for which you want to specify a color, and press the "Specify color" key. ,
A color selection menu will be displayed.

Here, if you select the control character for the print color you want to specify and press the "Select/Execute" key, a mark (color control code) is displayed. In this example,
A "gold" mark (color control code) is input at the beginning of rHA PPY...PARTYJ in the first line. As a result, each character of rHAPPY...PARTYJ is designated to be printed in gold. Similarly, for example, in the second line, each character of "Konotabi" is specified to be printed in black, "Kazuo Tanaka" is specified to be printed in blue, and "Midori Ono" is specified to be printed in red.

FIG. 5(b) is a diagram showing an example of a display screen when specifying printing, and when the "print instruction" key is pressed, a print menu is displayed. Here, when color printing is selected with the cursor and the "Select/Execute" key is pressed, the color printing mode is set.

FIG. 5(c) is a diagram showing an example of a display screen when printing in color. For example, when printing in black, a message such as "Please set the ribbon (black) and press the select/execute key." A message is displayed instructing you to load the ribbon cassette according to the print color.

Next, the specific operation of this embodiment will be explained with reference to the flowcharts shown in FIGS. 2 to 4.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart for explaining the color designation operation.

That is, first, the line column position of the cursor display in the document (X
, Y) is stored, and this line column position (X.

A cursor is displayed on Y) (steps A1 and A2).

Here, press the "Cursor" key to move the cursor to the beginning of the character string in the document for which you want to specify a color. According to this press, the memorized cursor display line column position and cursor display will be updated in the cursor movement direction. (Step A3
~A5).

After moving the cursor to the beginning of the character string in the document in this way, press the "color specification" key to select the print color, and as shown in Figure 5 (a), "black", "red",
A color selection menu such as "blue" is displayed, an initial value of the selected color data is set, and a cursor is displayed on this initially selected color (for example, "black") (steps A6 to A9).
). Here, if you press the "Cursor" key to select a different color from the initially selected color displayed by the cursor, the selected color data will be changed to the color in the cursor movement direction, and the cursor display position will change. (Step A
l0-A12).

In this way, when you select a print color with the cursor and press the "Select/Execute" key, the color corresponding to the selected color data is displayed at the specified line column position (X, Y) of the stored character string of the document. The code is inserted as a control character, and a mark corresponding to the document character string and color code is displayed on the screen as shown in FIG. 5(a) (steps A13 to A16). Note that the insertion operation is performed by changing the character code to 1 until the line feed code exists, as in the case of character insertion.
This is done by sending letters one by one.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining the printing operation.

That is, when the "print instruction" key is pressed, the screen shown in FIG. 5 (
A print menu is displayed as shown in b) (steps B1 to B3). Here, when normal printing is selected with the cursor, the code of one line of document character string is read out sequentially from the beginning to the last character (steps B4 and B5). and,
If the read code is a color code, it is developed as a space in the line buffer, and if it is not a color code, the corresponding character pattern is developed in the line buffer (steps 86 to B10). In this way, the character pattern is developed line by line in the line buffer until the final line, and its contents are output to the printer device 17 (steps Bll to B14).

On the other hand, when color printing is selected in step B4, the first printing color (COL) is set to "black" (step B15), and then a character corresponding to the specified "black" character in one line is printed. Only the pattern is expanded into the line buffer (step 816).

Here, the detailed operation of the color development step of step B16 will be explained with reference to FIG.

That is, when color printing is specified and a character string is read from the beginning of a line (step C1), or if it is a color code, spaces are expanded into the line buffer (steps C2 and C3).

At this time, if the color code matches the print color (COL), the color match flag is set, and if the color code does not match the print color (COL), the color match flag is reset ( Step C6). On the other hand, in step C2, if it is not a color code, if the color match flag is not set, spaces are expanded into the line buffer, and if the color match flag is set, the character pattern is expanded into the line buffer, and then the color A deployment flag is set (steps 07 to Cl0).

In step B16 of FIG. 3, when only the characters of the specified color in one line are developed in the line buffer, if the color development flag is set, printing is performed as necessary, that is, with the ribbon set color. Color (COL)
) do not match, a message will be displayed instructing you to load the ribbon cassette according to the print color, such as ``Insert ribbon (black) and press the Select/Enter key.'' (Steps 817 to B20
). At this time, the ribbon set color is stored by the operator after the ribbon replacement message is displayed, assuming that the cassette of that ribbon color has been loaded (step B201).

In this way, after loading the ribbon cassette according to the print color, when the completion of loading is notified by pressing the "select/execute key", the contents of the line buffer are output to the printer device 17 (step B21). ). Thereafter, the character pattern according to the print color is similarly developed in the line buffer up to the last line, and its contents are output to the printer device 17 (steps 822 to B26).

In this way, since the printing color can be specified for each character, multiple ribbon cassettes of different colors can be used optionally, for example, the first digit is black, the second digit is red, the third digit is blue, etc. Multicolor printing is possible for each character. Also,
A mark of the specified print color is displayed in the document area, so you can instantly determine the type of ribbon cassette needed when replacing ribbon.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, in a document creation device that performs color printing by optionally using a plurality of ribbon cassettes of different colors, the printing color of printed characters is specified for each character, Since the mark of the designated print color is displayed in the document area in correspondence with the print character, it is possible to immediately determine the type of ribbon cassette required when replacing the ribbon.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a block diagram showing a circuit configuration according to an embodiment of the present invention, Figs. 2 to 4 are flowcharts for explaining the operation of the embodiment, and Fig. 5 is a color print of the embodiment. It is a figure for explaining a procedure. 10... CPU, 11... Color printing control section, 12
... printer control section, 13... display control section, 14.
・Keyboard, 15 ・Key human power control device, 16・
...Document memory, 17...Printer device, 18...
Display device. Applicant's agent Patent attorney Takehiko Suzue Figure 1 Figure (Part 1) Figure 4 (a) (b) Figure 4

Claims (1)

[Claims] A document creation device that performs color printing by optionally using ribbon cassettes of a plurality of different colors, comprising: a printing color specifying means for specifying a printing color of printed characters on a character-by-character basis; A document creation device comprising: print color display means for displaying a mark of the designated print color in a document area in correspondence with the mark of the specified print color.