JPH039865A - Dot printer - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To print a character with a character font meeting the purpose without any change in a software of a host device by providing a character font selection mechanism in a printer device. CONSTITUTION:A printer incorporates a plurality of character font CG memories 1. An operator determines which font is used to print characters on paper and selects a character font to be printed by a character font selection switch 2. For example, in a normal printer, characters are required to be printed with a Mincho font, but the characters can be printed with a character font meeting the purpose either by changing over a printing character font by the character font selection switch or by setting a cartridge-type character font CG memory to obtain an appropriate character font.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a dot printer device connected to an information processing device.

[Conventional technology]

Conventional printers have only one type of character font, and in order to print characters that correspond to the character code sent from the host device, the dot data that makes up the characters is usually stored in the printer's internal font storage memory. It was a mechanism that read and printed the information.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

The conventional printers mentioned above only have one type of character font, so if you want to print characters in a different shape, you can use graph mode to print the characters you want to print from the higher-level information processing device connected to the printer. The font pattern had to be sent as dot data. Therefore, the upper level information processing device must hold a wide variety of character fonts. Another drawback is that the software must be changed from a method of printing by sending a character code to a graph mode printing method of printing characters by sending a dot image.

[Means to solve the problem]

The dot printer of the present invention is characterized by having a mechanism that has a plurality of character fonts and a mechanism that can select the character font.

〔Example〕

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

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in the figure, this printer has a built-in CG memory 1 with multiple character fonts, and you can decide which font to use to print characters on paper.
The operator selects characters not to be printed using the character font selection switch 2.

FIG. 2 is also a perspective view of an embodiment of the present invention, but differs from FIG. 1 in the method of selecting character fonts. In the method shown in Figure 2, the printer main body does not have a built-in character font CG memory, and the character font CG memory IA is a cartridge type, which can be attached to and removed from the main body, and a cartridge suitable for the purpose of printing can be used. Formula character font C
The G memory is used by being attached to the printer body.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, the present invention provides a printer device with a character font selection mechanism, thereby making it possible to print characters in a character font suitable for the purpose without making any changes to the software of the host device.

For example, a normal printer prints characters in Mincho font, but by switching the printing character font with a character font selection switch and setting a cartridge-type character font CG memory to obtain the desired character font, the desired character font can be changed. It becomes possible to print in a suitable character font.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of one embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a conventional example. l...CG memory, 2...selection switch.

Claims (1)

[Claims] A dot printer characterized by having a mechanism that has a plurality of character fonts and a mechanism that can select the character font.