JPH03187774A - Document editing printing apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To set the paper size of a text to be printed at a manual feed port with any timing thereby to obtain a desired printing result by carrying out printing while regarding an initial value of a paper feed position as for a first paper detecting means in the case where a paper is present in the first paper detecting means which detects the presence or absence of a manually-feeding paper, and a paper head position memory means is effective. CONSTITUTION:A first sensor 221 and a second sensor 222 are sensors for detecting a manually-feeding paper. When a printing paper is placed onto a table 260 at the front face of a printing apparatus 200 and detected by the second sensor 222, a main controlling circuit 250 drives an LF motor 204 to feed the printing paper to a printing starting position. At this time, since the printing paper passes the first sensor 221, both the first and the second sensors 221, 222 are in the detecting state. Moreover, since the printing paper is sent to the printing starting position by driving the LF motor 204, a feeding amount memory part 233 stores the fact that it is possible to manually feed the paper. On the other hand, feeding of papers from an automatic feeding apparatus 210 is similarly controlled by the main controlling circuit 250.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a document editing and printing device, and particularly to paper feeding control of manual paper feeding and automatic paper feeding.

[Conventional technology]

Among the printing controls of word processors and personal computers, especially when using a printing device equipped with an automatic paper feeder that continuously conveys and feeds cut sheets, the size of the paper set in the automatic paper feeder and the paper size set in the automatic paper feeder are Edit documents of different sizes.

When printing, it was necessary to replace the paper on the automatic paper feed side with the same paper as the edited document. This makes the operation very cumbersome when you want to print only one or two sheets.

As a method for solving the above-mentioned inconvenience, when printing only one or two sheets, there is a method of feeding the paper through the manual paper feed port and printing.

However, when manually feeding paper with this printer, the paper setting timing is determined by setting various printing conditions on the word processor side, and especially setting the paper feeding method to manual.
This is limited to the print preparation complete state, that is, only when the paper set message is displayed on the display device. The reason is,
When instructing a printing device to print from a word processing set, a reset signal is sent for initialization processing of the printing device, and upon reception of the reset signal, the printing device detects the paper sensor when paper is set. This is because a paper jam is detected because paper is stuck on the paper, and paper ejection processing is executed.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

In the above-mentioned conventional technology, in a printing device equipped with an automatic paper feeder, when printing on paper different from the paper set in the automatic paper feeder, each time the paper is replaced on the automatic paper feeder side, or It was necessary to set the paper in the manual paper feed slot after instructing the printing conditions on the word processor side to manually feed the paper, and then print.However, the purpose of the present invention is to change the size of the paper set in the automatic paper feeder side. When printing one or more documents with different paper orientations, you can load the paper size of the document to be printed into the manual paper feed slot at any timing without being aware of the paper size set in the automatic paper feeder. An object of the present invention is to provide a document editing and printing device that realizes desired printing.

[Means to solve the problem]

To achieve this object, the invention includes an input means for inputting character information and control information, a display means, a storage means, and a document editing process according to the character information and control information inputted from the input means. The printing means includes a document editing means for displaying an edited document on the display means and storing it in the storage means, a printing means for printing the contents of the storage means, and an automatic paper feeding means for continuously feeding paper. In the document editing and printing device equipped with the document editing means, the document printing means includes first and second paper detecting means for detecting the presence or absence of paper in the manual paper feed slot and the automatic paper feed slot, and printing from one document editing means is provided. When the printing means receives the instruction, the states of the first and second paper detection means are checked, and if paper is present only in the first paper detection means, the paper loading state is maintained, and the state of the paper detection means is maintained. A printing process in which the paper feeding method is stored as manual in the storage means of the document editing means, and when paper is present in the second paper detection means, the control required process is executed and the paper feeding wait state is set. The present invention is characterized in that it includes a means for executing.

[Effect]

Printing can be done at any time from document editing to printing, depending on the paper feeding method and timing of the document to be edited and printed.

〔Example〕

EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION Below, one embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail using the drawings.

FIG. 2 is an external view of the word processor system, and detailed block diagrams thereof are shown in FIGS. 3 and 4.

An input device for inputting character information and control information! ! 120.

An overall control device (CONT) 41 that controls the whole, and a temporary storage means (CONT) that stores character information, control information, and management information.
A page memory (PM) 42, a display device 10 that displays character information etc. input manually from the input device 20, a display controller (CRTC) 45, and a refresh memory (PM) 42;
RM) 44, a control unit 40 consisting of a character generator (CG) 43, and first and second flexible disks (FD) 30 and 31, which are external storage devices, and the printing device 200. is connected with an interface cable.

The printing device 200 includes a CPU 201. storage unit 230,
Interface unit 207 with the host device; includes a main control circuit 250 consisting of various drivers 241 to 244; receives power from the power supply unit 206; exchanges data with the host device; and is equipped with a print head 202; A space motor (SP motor) 203 for moving the carriage part (not shown) left and right. It controls a paper feed motor 204, which is a drive source for moving printing paper in the length direction, and further controls an automatic paper feeder (C5F) 210.

Additionally, sensors 221 and 222 detect the presence or absence of printing paper.
．． It has 205. First sensor 221 and second sensor 22
Reference numeral 2 denotes a manual paper feed sensor, which places printing paper on the table 260-E on the front of the printing device 200, and
When detected by the second sensor 222 located in front of the feed roller (not shown) for manual paper feeding, the main control circuit 2
50 drives the LF motor 204 to feed the printing paper to the printing start position. At this time, the printing paper passes through the first sensor 221, so the first sensor 221 and the second
The sensor 222 is in a detection state. Furthermore, since the LF motor 204 is driven to feed the printing paper to the printing start position, the feed amount storage unit 233 stores that manual paper feeding is possible.

Furthermore, even though the second sensor 222 is detected and the LF motor 204 is driven, even though the time of the timer 232 has elapsed,
If the first sensor 221 does not detect paper, an alarm signal is sent to the host device via the interface unit 207 to indicate that there is an abnormality. Therefore, it is possible to determine whether the printer is in a state where printing paper is loaded into the manual paper feed slot and is waiting for printing, or whether there is an abnormal state such as a paper jam.

On the other hand, when feeding paper from the automatic paper feeder (C8F) 210, when the paper feeding method from the host device is set to automatic, data is exchanged with the host device in the same manner as described above, and the main control circuit 25
0 sends out the paper.

Further, the third sensor 205 for C3F detects the paper, and drives the LF motor 204 to send the paper to the printing start position. The above operation is also monitored by the timer 232 of the storage unit 230 to determine if there is an abnormality in paper feeding.

Kana and alphabetic characters are input from the input device 20 in the configuration of "Yu".

When character information such as numbers and control information that determines the operation of the word processor are input, the overall control bag [(CONT
) 41 has control functions determined by a program stored in a built-in storage section, and document editing and printing are controlled.

The first flexible disk 30 stores a system program and a kana-kanji conversion dictionary, and the second flexible disk 31 stores previously created documents or newly created document information. .

The page memory 42 temporarily stores document information input from the input device 20 or document information read from the second flexible disk 31. The refresh memory 44 is connected to the display device f! The character string of the document to be displayed is stored in the form of an address code indicating the character shape storage address of the character generator 43, and the character generator 43 stores the character shape.

The display controller 45 reads the character string to be displayed from the refresh memory 44 and sends it to the character generator 4.
3 to convert it into a character form, and display the characters of the document on the display MfR 10.

In the above configuration, the overall control device 41 has a ROM that stores a part of the program as part of the internal storage device, and when the power is turned on, the program in the ROM reads the program from the first flexible disk 30. Transfer the program to the RAM area and preparations are complete. Then, when the word processor is set to the document editing mode, the overall control device 41 performs a document editing format setting process for editing one document. In the document editing format setting, format setting items are displayed on the display device 10, and the input device i'f 20 is input by the operator.
Stores formatting information entered manually. Document editing formatting items include paper size and paper orientation.

There are 2 character sizes for top, bottom, left and right margins, 2 line spacing for character spacing, etc. Character information input after document editing formatting is managed according to this format information.

Next, when the word processor is set to the document print mode, the overall control device 41 performs document print format setting processing for document printing. In the document print format setting, format setting items are displayed as shown in FIG. It stores format information that is displayed on the device IO and input by the operator from the input device 20. Document print format setting items include the name or document number of the document to be printed, the number of copies to be printed, the range of pages to be printed, and the type of paper to be printed.

There are paper feeding methods (automatic/manual), etc. Then, the overall control device 41 performs document data printing processing by referring to the one-document editing format and the document printing format information.

The manual paper feed control method according to the present invention with the above configuration will be explained using flowchart 1- in FIG.

When the print mode is selected from the input device 20 in a state where the overall control device 41 is ready, the overall control device 41 sends a print instruction signal to the printing bag 200 via the interface cable (processing). 100). The printing apparatus 200 communicates with the CP via the interface unit 207.
It is received by U201, and the control program 231 performs initial setting processing to prepare for printing, completing the printing preparation.

During the above process, the state of the third sensor 205 for C8F is determined (process 101). When the third sensor 205 is in the ON state, it means that the printing paper is jammed on the C3F 210 side, and the LF motor 204 is driven to eject the printing paper (process 107). Third sensor 205 is OFF
In the case of I-', the process proceeds to determination processing for the sensor on the manual paper feed side. When the first sensor 221 is OFF, the C3F210
Since there is no printing paper on either the manual paper feed side or the manual paper feed side, the printer is waiting for printing paper to be fed.

Therefore, if automatic paper feeding instruction data is received after performing the process of determining whether or not there is an automatic paper feeding instruction from the host device, C
:Feed the printing paper from 5F2LO, feed it to the printing start position, and execute the printing process (processes 103, 109)
. When the first sensor 221 is ON, the second sensor 222
The determination process is executed (processes 102 and 104). If the second sensor 222 is OFF, the printing paper is hanging on only one sensor on the manual paper feed side, so the paper is jammed in the printing device 200, that is, the paper is in a jam state, so ejection is performed. Execute 107. First sensor 22
When both sensors 1 and 222 are ON, it means that at least paper is loaded in the manual paper feed slot in a printable state. Furthermore, the contents of the entire storage section 233 of the storage section 230 are determined, and if the predetermined data is written, the printing paper passes through the second sensor 222 and the first sensor 221 and reaches the printing start position. This means that the paper has been correctly set in the manual paper feed slot. If the contents of the total feed storage section 233 are cleared, this means that the printing paper has not been correctly fed to the printing start position, so it is determined that there is a jam, and the ejection process is executed (processes 105 and 107).
.

As described above, if the printing paper is correctly loaded in the manual paper feed slot at the printing start position, a signal is sent to the host device to notify that the manual paper feed state is in progress. In the word processor overall control device 41, which is a host device, the initial value of the paper feeding method is set to manual, and the display device 10 displays it as shown in FIG. 5 (process 106).

Next, the entire feed storage section 233 is cleared and printing processing is executed.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As detailed above, according to the present invention, when printing paper is loaded in advance in the manual paper feed slot, when the automatic paper feed device is installed, priority is given to printing paper with the manual paper feed pattern. Therefore, it is possible to provide a document editing and printing device that is extremely easy to use when printing a document with a paper size different from the paper size loaded in the automatic paper feeder, that is, when performing interrupt printing.

Furthermore, since the paper detection sensor and paper feeding amount are monitored, it is necessary to check whether the printing paper is correctly fed manually.
It is also possible to determine whether there is a paper jam.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a processing flowchart of manual paper feed control according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is an external view of a word processor system according to the present invention, FIG. 3 is a control block diagram of the word processor according to the present invention, and FIG. 4 is a printing device FIG. 5 is a control block diagram showing an example of displaying the printing condition setting state. 10... Display device, 20... Input device, 41...
Overall control device, 200...printing device, 201...C
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Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. An input means for inputting character information and control information, a display means, a storage means, and executing document editing processing according to the character information and control information input from the input means, A document editing/printing device comprising: a document editing means for displaying an edited document on the display means and storing it in the storage means; and a printing means for printing the contents of the storage means, wherein the printing means is provided with a manual paper feeder. a first paper detecting means for detecting the presence or absence of paper; a paper cue position storage means for storing information that the paper has been fed to a desired position; an automatic paper feeding means for continuously feeding the paper; and second paper detection means for detecting whether or not paper is fed from the automatic paper feed means, when paper is present in the first paper detection means and the paper start position storage means is effective. The document editing and printing device is characterized in that the document editing means executes printing processing by setting the initial value of the paper feeding position to the first paper detecting means.