JPH0353954A - Electrophotographic printer - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To arbitrarily select a dot matrix character expression by providing a font selection means allowing a font to be selected by an operation means on an operation panel. CONSTITUTION:An operation part 4 is provided with a means for selecting an outline information storage means 1 or a dot font information storage means 2. Before printing data is transmitted from a host device to a printer, a font is selected by the operation part 4, and font information is selected by a control part 3. Then, the reception of the printing data is started, the selected font information storage means is used, and the processed data is transmitted to a printing part 5. Therefore, a user can arbitrarily and easily use either an outline printing or a dot font printing in accordance with the purpose of use.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] [Industrial application field] The present invention relates to electrophotographic printers.

[Conventional technology]

The conventional method of selecting information storage is to use outline characters based on commands from the host computer;
Controls whether to use dot characters.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

In the conventional printer print character selection described above, commands are switched by the host computer program, so the program must be changed to replace the print characters from outline characters to dot matrix or vice versa. There is a drawback.

[Means to solve the problem]

The electrophotographic printer of the present invention has an outline font information storage means and a dot font information storage means, and a processing means for causing each font information storage to be printed by the printer printing unit. It is comprised of font selection means that enables selection of fonts.

〔Example〕

Next, the present invention will be explained with reference to the drawings.

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

The operation unit 4 has outline information storage 1,000 steps and 1,000 dots.
It has means for selecting the font information recording means 2.

Before sending print data from the host device to the printer, font information is selected from the operation section 4 and from the control section 3.

Print data reception is started and processed data is sent to the printing unit 5 using the selected font storage information means.

Therefore, the user can freely and easily use outline or dot font printing depending on the purpose.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, the present invention allows the user to select vector character expression (enlarged characters are beautiful and the printing speed is slower than dot matrix character expression speed) or 1/2 by selecting on the operation panel of an electrophotographic printer. 〜The reduced characters in the matrix character representation are beautiful and the printing speed is faster than the vector character representation speed.» can be freely selected. Further, it is not necessary to change the program of the host computer using the expression characters.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of the present invention. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... Outline information storage means, 2... Dot font information storage means, 3. Control 1 roll part, 4. Operation means, 5. Printing part.

Claims (1)

[Claims] Font selection means for enabling font selection by operation means on an operation panel in an apparatus having outline font information storage means and dot font information storage means, and processing means for causing each font information storage to be printed by a printer printing unit. An electrophotographic printer characterized by comprising: