JPH03191422A - Mark printing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To make addition of a mark at the time of cutting off paper unnecessary by reading out size corresponding to a paper type specified by a paper type specifying means from a paper size storing means and printing out a mark corresponding to the size. CONSTITUTION:At the time of requiring the printing of a mark, an operator depresses a paper type selection key 1b. A processing part 2 supplies a signal for displaying the selection of a paper type in accordance with previously stored processing procedure to a display device 5 through a display control part 4. When a mark type selection key 1e is depressed to end the selection of the paper type, the processing part 2 inputs the selected paper type based upon the position or the like of a cursor on the device 5 and writes the paper size in a mark printing memory 11. On the other hand, the processing part 2 reads out various type stored in a mark type registering part 10 to display the mark type corresponding to the depression of the key 1e and supplies a reading signal to the control part 4. Then, the device 5 displays various mark types.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a printing method in an information processing apparatus such as a word processor, and particularly to a mark printing method for printing paper size marks.

[Prior Art] Conventionally, there have been information processing devices such as word processors that electrically handle data, and such information processing devices have a printing function for the data handled by the information processing device. In other words, it is possible to perform various processing on data entered from a keyboard, etc., and output it to an external floppy disk, etc., but it is also possible to print out the data by connecting a printer, etc. There is.

The printing style (print format) can be set as desired using a program created in advance. For example, if you set the paper type as 85 size 1, portrait, 38 characters per line, and 30 lines per page, the data to be printed will be processed according to this print format. Output to printer. Therefore, by setting the corresponding type of paper in the printer and printing, it is possible to perform predetermined printing on the desired type of paper.

[Problem to be solved by the invention] However, the types of paper for printing are A3,
There are various types such as A4, A5, B4, B5, refills, and postcards. All you have to do is set the type of paper you want to print on in the printer, but there are times when you don't have the type of paper you want to print on hand.

For example, if you want to print on B5 paper, you have A4 paper at hand.
There may be cases where there is only paper available. In such a case,
Data in B5 format had to be printed on A4 paper, measured with a scale, etc. to determine the B5 size, marked, and then cut to 85 mm with a cutter.

For this reason, the work of measuring with a scale and marking it is very complicated, and it would be very convenient if this could be done automatically.

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a mark printing processing method that can print marks of paper size.

[Means for Solving the Problems] The mark printing method according to the present invention has a storage means for storing paper sizes for a plurality of paper types such as A4.85, and the paper type can be specified by an operator. When a size is specified, the corresponding size is read out from the storage means, and a mark is printed in accordance with the size.

Further, if a mark type storage means for storing various mark types is provided, it is also possible to select the type for mark printing.

[The operator uses the paper type designating means to designate which paper type from among the displayed paper types the mark is to be printed. Then, the size corresponding to the paper type specified by the paper type specifying means is read from the paper storage section, and a mark is printed in accordance with the size. Therefore, the user can cut the paper along these marks, which simplifies the work when using different paper types.

Furthermore, by selecting a mark type, the mark will be printed according to the purpose.

[Example] Hereinafter, an example of the mark printing method of the present invention will be described based on the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of a word processor to which the mark printing method according to the embodiment is applied, and has a keyboard 1 as input means for various data. and,
Data input from the keyboard 1 is supplied to a processing section 2, where it is subjected to various processing. and,
Document data etc. in a word processor are stored in the text memory 3.

Further, a display device 5 such as a CRT is connected to the processing section 2 via a display control section 4, and can display the processing status, data contents, etc. Further, a printing device 7 is connected to the processing section 2 via a print control section 6, and can print out processing results in the processing section 2, document data stored in the text memory 3, and the like.

Note that the printer buffer memory 8 temporarily stores the data sent from the processing section 2, and the printer buffer memory 8 temporarily stores data sent from the processing section 2.
This is for adjusting the timing of signal supply from to the printing device 7.

The processing section 2 has A3 horizontal, A4 vertical, A5 vertical, and B4 m.
A paper size registration section 9 stores paper sizes corresponding to various paper types such as , B5 portrait, refill, etc. as horizontal (X direction) and vertical (y direction) lengths. A mark type registration unit 10 that stores mark types and a mark printing memory 11 that is used as a temporary storage means when printing marks are connected. Also, keyboard 1
The printer has a print key paper type selection key 1b1 mark type selection key IC along with various normal keys.

The information processing apparatus of this embodiment has the above-described configuration, and can perform mark printing according to various paper types in addition to normal printing. Therefore, the operation regarding this mark printing will be explained based on the flowchart of FIG. 3.

If the operator wants to print a mark, first press the paper type selection key 1b (Sl). The processing section 2 supplies a signal for display for selecting a paper type to the display device 5 via the display control section 4 according to a pre-stored processing procedure. Therefore, the paper type is displayed on the display device 5 (S2).

Here, the display of this paper type is, for example, A4 portrait, A4
Depending on the display such as horizontal, S4 horizontal, etc. Then, the operator operates the cursor keys on the keyboard 1 and selects the paper type on which printing is desired. In addition, at this time, it is good to be able to input a free size that allows the vertical and horizontal sizes to be input numerically.

When you have finished selecting the paper type on the screen in this way, press the mark type selection key (S
3). Since pressing the mark type selection key 1c means the end of paper type selection, the processing unit 2
The selected paper type is acquired from the position of the cursor, etc., and the paper size is written into the mark printing memory 11 (S4).

At this time, the data displayed on the display device 5 is A4, B
This data is about a paper type such as S, and cannot be used as is as data for printing representing the size of that paper type. However, in this embodiment, the paper size registration section 9 stores data regarding the printing position when printing for each paper type. Therefore, the processing section 2 reads the corresponding data from the paper size registration section 9 from the imported data regarding the paper type and writes this data into the mark printing memory 11.

On the other hand, in order to display a landmark type in response to the press of the landmark type selection key IC, the processing section 2 reads various types stored in the landmark type registration section 10 and sends a signal regarding this to the display control section 4. supply Therefore, various types of landmarks as shown in FIG. 2 are displayed on the display device 5 (S5).

The operator selects a desired mark type from among the displayed mark types by moving a cursor or the like. When the selection is completed, the print key 1a is pressed (S6).

Pressing this print key 1a means the end of the selection of the landmark type, so the processing unit 2 takes in which landmark type has been selected from the current cursor position, and prints the contents of the selected landmark type into the landmark. It is written into the print memory 11 (S7).

In this manner, the mark printing memory 11 stores data regarding the paper size and data regarding which mark type should be printed. For this reason,
Based on this data, it is possible to print at a position corresponding to the paper size. Therefore, the processing section 2 reads out these data from the mark printing memory 11, converts the data into printing data, and supplies the data to the printing control section 6. The print control section 6 once writes this printing data into the printer buffer 7 memory 8 and then supplies it to the printing device. Therefore, the desired mark is printed in the printing device (S9).

In this way, indicia of the size and style selected by the operator can be printed. Therefore, by cutting the paper based on the printed marks, the desired paper can be easily obtained.

Furthermore, if such mark printing and printing of normal document data etc. are performed at the same time, paper size marks can be printed around the document. That is, when printing both text data and a mark according to an instruction from an operator, the processing unit 2 reads data regarding the print position and type of the mark from the mark printing memory 11, and then prints the data regarding the print position and type of the mark. The documents read from the text memory 3 are superimposed and sent to the print control section 6 as data containing both. The printer buffer memory 8 has a memory corresponding to the maximum printable width of the normal printing device 7, and there is no problem even if a combination of a mark printing signal and document data is stored therein. Therefore, both mark printing and document printing can be performed at the same time.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, a case has been described in which the present invention is applied when there is no paper of the desired size to print, but the present invention is not limited to this, and for example, a mark can be printed during trial printing for postcard printing.

In other words, since postcards include postage and are expensive, many people try printing on regular paper before printing on postcards. In such a case, if postcard size marks are printed at the same time, the layout etc. can be easily determined, which is very convenient.

Further, in the above example, the word processor and the information processing device are provided with functions for printing marks, but it is also possible to provide these functions in the print control section and incorporate them into the printer device.

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, according to the mark printing method according to the present invention, even when there is no paper of the desired size,
Since a mark of that size can be printed, there is no need to add a mark when cutting the paper, making the work easier. Furthermore, if the type of mark can be selected, it is possible to print a mark according to the purpose.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is a block diagram of an information processing device to which a mark printing method according to an embodiment of the present invention is applied, Fig. 2 is a schematic explanatory diagram showing an example of a mark type format, and Fig. 3 shows the operation of the embodiment. It is a flow chart for explanation. 1 ... 2 ... 7 ... 9 ... 10 ... Keyboard processing section Printing device Paper size registration section Mark type registration section 11 ... Memory for mark printing

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) A paper size storage means for storing paper sizes for a plurality of paper types, and a paper type designation means for specifying which paper type from among the plurality of paper types is to be marked printed. and, when a paper type is designated by the paper type designating means, a corresponding size is read from the paper size storage means, and a mark is printed according to the read size. Printing method. (2) In the mark printing method according to claim (1), a mark type storage means for storing a plurality of mark types; and a mark type for displaying the plurality of mark types stored in the mark type storage means. A mark printing method comprising: a display means; and a mark type selection means for selecting a mark type from among the displayed mark types, and printing a mark corresponding to the selected mark type.